Agile Working Options
LOCATION: Bristol
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Bristol office.
We currently have an excellent opportunity for an Associate to assist in driving our targeted growth aspirations for the region.
Corporate Coverage is a core coverage business within Corporate & Institutional Banking, operating across the UK, Europe, North America, and Asia and is responsible for the management of relationships with the larger commercial clients. Consisting of 4 Sectors – Services & Public Sector; Infrastructure, Energy and Industrials; Consumer & Tech; and Real Estate & Housing.
You'll work within the Private Groups team alongside a Relationship Director helping to lead a portfolio of South West based clients to deepen relationships as well as originating new and sustainable income and balance sheet opportunities. In order to facilitate this, you'll be personable and able to influence others, by building trusting and collaborative relationships whilst communicating efficiently at all levels.
Sector knowledge while advantageous is not crucial, and we're seeking a highly motivated, organised individual who cares deeply about our clients.
- Support the team by preparing written reports for new and existing facilities to assist the Relationship Directors in meeting customer requirements.
- Responding to a wide range of client enquiries, resolving issues to the customers' satisfaction, and raising matters as appropriate.
- Prepare and monitor a range of returns in an accurate and timely manner to provide senior management with information to monitor and control risk.
- Credit stewardship and monitoring, proactively monitor and review client reporting, including economic profitability, reporting on exposures, product utilisation, use of banking services to ensure risk is acceptable and recommending actions as appropriate.
- Undertake a broad range of financial, marketing and industry sector research tasks and provide up to date information on customer relationships to enable the Relationship Director to meet customer requirements and business objectives.
- Collaborate closely with other areas of the Group including Corporate Markets, Scottish Widows, Lex, Global Transactional Banking and Consumer Finance to access their specialist’s skills, acquire and exchange information and identify potential opportunities for clients and the bank.
- Excellent customer relationship management skills
- Strong financial analysis skills
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills
- Corporate Market Knowledge