Your career in Markets and Research

These teams serve our institutional investor clients – asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, central banks and the like – by helping them understand developments in global markets and offering execution and risk management solutions across each major asset class.

As a Salesperson, you’ll match our products and services to clients’ needs, offering differentiated insights along the way.

As a Trader, you’ll build your clients’ trust by providing informed advice, helping them navigate the market and executing their chosen investment strategies.

State and local governments, public authorities, health care systems, universities, utilities and other not-for-profit organizations have complex financial needs.  Our Public Finance team exists to provide comprehensive investment banking and capital markets solutions that help these public sector clients achieve their ambitions  

Public Finance sits within our Municipal Finance business, where we combine banking, underwriting, sales, trading, strategy and derivative products into one unit. You’ll help create and deliver solutions across the whole spectrum of complex financial products for a wide variety of clients. If you’re interested in the public sector and have a passion for the markets, consider joining our Public Finance team.

TCU supports our Markets business by capturing trade information quickly and accurately. And with colleagues across the globe generating hundreds of thousands of trades daily, that’s no mean feat.

The TCU team ensures all trades placed are entered accurately, accepted with the right economic terms, and reviewed or adjusted as needed to manage risk. This team works with colleagues across Sales and Trading, while also weighing in on the design and implementation of system architecture to support trade capture. Your highly analytical mind coupled with your knack for processes – along with our support – will help you succeed here.

Electronic trading is evolving fast. We want to be one of the leading innovators in the field, so we built a team that brings together experts in Statistics, Trading, Analytics and Technology. The Statistical Modelling and Development team is part of Barclays’ Front Office, providing algorithms and trading decision logic for electronic trading. The team partners with technology, risk, control functions and trading to deliver industry-leading algorithms for automated pricing, risk management and execution across all asset classes. Implemented in a high performance library, these are based upon data analysis, statistical and machine learning models.

As part of this team, you would help deliver algorithms for automated pricing, risk management and execution.The better you can assimilate a complex array of quantitative, programming and market information, the more successful you will be.

The Automated Volatility Trading group is engaged in systematic trading of Equities and Options markets.  The group develops and deploys algorithmic investment strategies, based on economic intuition, quantitative research and advance technologies. 

Markets Risk and Control, as part of the Front Office, partners with Trading, Distribution and other key stakeholders to design, develop, implement and maintain an efficient and effective control environment across our Markets business. 

Our industry-leading QA team develops quantitative models and provides quantitative solutions to front office trading desks, and the Risk, Finance and Treasury functions.  

QA offers an invigorating and enlightening working environment. Here you’ll work with top quantitative talent to deliver cutting-edge solutions on derivative pricing, risk management, capital utilization, strategic technological advancements and more. If you have strong mathematical, analytical, and/or programming skills, and enjoy real-world problem solving, the QA team is a perfect place to make the most of your skills and build a rewarding career.

Credit Research is ideal for analytical thinkers with the curiosity to dig further into financial statements, credit agreements and indentures. The team sits on the corporate credit trading floor, just rows away from where the trade execution occurs. It’s a fast-paced operation that’s organized into four primary groups: high yield, investment grade, emerging markets and strategy.

Whichever group you work in, you’ll have daily meetings with Sales and Trading colleagues, where you’ll deliver a succinct summary of what to discuss with clients throughout the day. You’ll also talk to clients daily yourself, giving them our views on a credit or sector, and how valuations might be affected by specific events.     

This award-winning team provides fundamental research on nearly 1,700 companies across the Americas and Europe. Our analysts create actionable investment ideas based on independent, objective, primary research.  They deliver in-depth expertise by identifying industry trends and individual company inflection points.  Our team interacts with institutional money managers, corporate executives, industry experts, as well as our internal partners across Markets, Banking and Research.

The ability to articulate and present succinct, accurate, insightful messages is crucial. You’ll learn to react swiftly to market movements and provide quick but thorough analysis on how industry trends or geopolitical movements may affect the industry or specific companies you cover.    

The Macro Research team is diverse. It includes analysts who develop and present the Barclays Research view on economies, bond markets and commodities, as well as strategists who build recommendations based on these views. The individuals in Macro Research come from many different academic backgrounds, but most have some grounding in economics.

Compared with the Equity or Credit Research teams, Macro Research is a small group. But the views they develop are inputs for a wide variety of both internal clients (Sales, Trading, and other parts of research) and external clients. The type of individual who thrives in Macro Research is therefore someone who gets excited about digging into the nuance of data and developing insights, but should also be at ease formulating a compelling story about their view and communicating this in written work, graphics, and presentations.