Vice President, Investment Banking

Role Purpose & Responsibilities

Build and maintain strong relationships with corporate clients, understanding their business, financial goals, and industry trends to develop and propose appropriate investment banking solutions.

• Generate ideas and identify opportunities that expand the bank’s client base and create new business.
• Conduct in‑depth financial analysis and due diligence on client companies to assess financial health and valuation.
• Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to review, draft, and maintain transaction documentation, including contracts and agreements.
• Work with Capital Markets, Sales & Trading, Research, and Risk Management to provide comprehensive solutions to clients.
• Champion Energy Transition and Sustainability by engaging clients on climate transition strategies and sustainable finance opportunities where applicable.
• Advise clients on a wide range of strategic transactions across FinTech, Banks and Specialty Finance verticals.
• Manage project teams conducting industry research, evaluating key trends and opportunities, developing financial models, performing valuation analyses, and managing transaction execution.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to clients and senior leadership, while nurturing and building strong relationships with other industry professionals.
• Travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time to meet with clients.

Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change; plan resources, budgets, and policies.
• If managing a team: define jobs and responsibilities, plan for future needs, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to pay decisions.
• Demonstrate the four leadership behaviours: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, and Develop others.
• If an individual contributor: serve as a subject‑matter expert, guide technical direction, lead multi‑year assignments, and coach less experienced specialists.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks within the control and governance agenda, strengthening controls related to the work performed by the team.
• Collaborate with other work areas to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies; create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought.
• Use influencing and negotiating skills to build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications & Compensation

• Base salary range: $250,000.00 – $275,000.00 per year, excluding additional compensation or benefits.
• Eligible for incentives pursuant to the Barclays Employee Referral Program.
• Requires up to 20% domestic and international travel.

Company Values

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. They are also expected to embody the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.