Business Banking Manager

Bank of Ireland; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of Ireland in Belfast is seeking an experienced SME/Property lending professional to join our Business Banking team. In this role you will assist the Senior Business Manager to promote the Bank's brand, structure lending proposals, and drive new opportunities within the mid-market segment up to £20m.

This hybrid role based primarily in Belfast offers exposure to intermediaries and business partners, regular external events, and a focus on maintaining high standards of credit and customer

Qualifications

• There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

Responsibilities

• Ensure lending proposals are effectively structured and proactively led ensuring maximisation of portfolio opportunities and acquisition of new business customers
• Maintain a culture of excellence with regard to SME and property lending - structuring deals, risk analysis, monitoring and maximising opportunities
• Maintain regular contact with key customers and intermediaries and represent the Bank at external events
• Ensure completion of high quality credit applications and ensure acceptable credit/ compliance standards met at all times.
• Strong business insight, achieving results safely and growing the Bank's markets share and profile in a positive manner and demonstrating broad commercial knowledge
• Solid understanding of the NI business market and a wide network of personal contacts within the regional business community.

Job description

What is the opportunity?

In this role you will assist the Senior Business Manager to promote the Bank of Ireland brand in the local marketplace, driving new business opportunities and ensuring high standards of customer service for the existing portfolio, within the mid-market segment (typical borrowing requirements up to £20m). This is also an exciting opportunity to network extensively and attend external events, developing/maintaining the Bank's relationship with intermediaries and business partners

Location of role - Belfast area

In this role, you will:

• Ensure lending proposals are effectively structured and proactively led ensuring maximisation of portfolio opportunities and acquisition of new business customers
• Maintain a culture of excellence with regard to SME and property lending - structuring deals, risk analysis, monitoring and maximising opportunities
• Maintain regular contact with key customers and intermediaries and represent the Bank at external events
• Ensure completion of high quality credit applications and ensure acceptable credit/ compliance standards met at all times.
• Strong business insight, achieving results safely and growing the Bank's markets share and profile in a positive manner and demonstrating broad commercial knowledge
• Solid understanding of the NI business market and a wide network of personal contacts within the regional business community.

What will make you stand out?

• Previous experience of running a portfolio of complex, high value SME and Property customers
• Ability to develop new business and fund complex, high value lending transactions
• Proven experience in credit management, regulatory and operational risk and consistent track record in maintaining high standards in these areas across a portfolio of complex, high value SME and Property customers.

Essential qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More about the team

Business Banking is a key part of the Bank of Ireland's Northern Ireland business and is responsible for profitability, growing our share of and return from the business market by providing a comprehensive range of business products and excellent customer service in businesses across NI through dedicated business banking teams.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily in Belfast. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support collaboration and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.

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Why work with us?

Bank of Ireland prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 24 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program along with other fantastic supports. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused - Self
• Better together - Self
• Be Decisive - Self
• Take Ownership - Self
• Manage Risk - Self

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email.Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.