Investment Banking Coverage Director

To build and maintain relationships with clients, understand their needs, expectations and financial goals to develop and propose appropriate investment banking solutions for clients and their companies

• Development and maintenance of strong relationships with corporate clients by understanding their business, financial goals, and industry trends
• Generation of ideas and identification of opportunities that expand the bank's client base and generate new business opportunities
• In-depth financial analysis and due diligence on client companies to assess their financial health and valuation
• Collaboration with legal and compliance teams to review, draft, and maintain legal documentation required for transactions, including contracts and agreements
• Collaboration with other teams, such as Capital Markets, Sales and Trading, Research, and Risk Management, to provide comprehensive solutions to clients
• Champion Energy Transition and Sustainability by engaging with clients on their climate, transition strategies and sustainable finance opportunities where applicable
• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
• Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive

• Wellness rooms
• gyms
• mental health support
• modern workspaces
• collaborative areas
• state-of-the-art meeting rooms
• on-site cafeterias
• fitness centers
• tech-equipped workstations