Vice President, APAC Markets Fixed Income Legal

This is an exciting opportunity to join Barclays as a Vice President, APAC Markets Fixed Income Legal. You will provide transactional support, legal and regulatory advice and risk management to the APAC Markets business, with a primary focus on fixed income businesses, encompassing rates, FX, credit, emerging markets and the corporate risk solutions group (the “APAC Markets Fixed Income business”). You will be responsible for the maintenance, and lifecycle legal management of structured notes and repackaging notes issuance programmes. You will also advise on global and local regulations affecting the Asia Pacific Markets Fixed Income business and support the execution of strategic priorities and initiatives of the APAC Markets Fixed Income business. This includes the review and assessment of netting/ collateral enforceability of ISDA documentation for derivatives transactions and/or ICMA/ ISLA documentation for fixed income securities financing transactions.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, as well as job-specific technical skills.

To be successful for the role, candidates should possess the following skills or experience:

• Qualified solicitor in UK, Singapore, Hong Kong or Australia with at least 6-8 years of relevant experience in the department of a top tier international financial institution or law firm.
• Highly conversant with ISDA documentation and various ISDA product definitions (including but not limited to the 2014 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions).
• Experienced in dealing with Credit Events.
• Demonstrable product knowledge involving fixed income products and emerging markets.
• Working knowledge of relevant US, UK, EU and Asia regulations (e.g. Dodd-Frank, EMIR, MIFID, BMR) and LIBOR transition.

Purpose of the role: To ensure that the activities of the business units in the Markets division are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal risk associated with these activities.

Accountabilities:

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies to manage compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations.
• Legal advice and support to the business units in the Markets division on matters arising from the relevant products/services provided by the Markets division.
• Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to the Markets business units such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
• Creation and review of legal documents for the business units in the Markets division to ensure the bank’s compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations. Maintaining and updating template legal documentation for the Markets division.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in applicable laws, rules and regulations that may impact the activities of the bank's Markets business units.
• Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the activities of the Markets business units.
• Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.

Vice President Expectations:

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.