Private Banker – Midlands

Barclays; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank is seeking a Private Banker for their Birmingham office, focusing on providing bespoke banking and investment solutions to high net worth clients. The role involves identifying new clients, delivering tailored financial advice, and maintaining high levels of client service to ensure long-term relationships. This opportunity is ideal for an experienced professional looking to enhance their career in private banking.

Qualifications

• Experience in private banking or wealth management.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Excellent communication and negotiation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Identify and secure new private banking relationships.
• Deliver bespoke financial advice to high net worth clients.
• Manage and maintain high client satisfaction levels.

Skills

Client Relationship Management

Investment Advice

Financial Analysis

Education

Relevant degree in Finance or Business

Job description

Barclays Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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Overall purpose of role

Private Banking offers bespoke banking and investment solutions to high net worth (HNW) and ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals & Family Offices across the globe. This role is focussed on clients across the Midlands in the UK. It provides a comprehensive range of investment advice across all asset classes, wealth structuring advice and banking services.

Overall purpose of role

Private Banking offers bespoke banking and investment solutions to high net worth (HNW) and ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals & Family Offices across the globe. This role is focussed on clients across the Midlands in the UK. It provides a comprehensive range of investment advice across all asset classes, wealth structuring advice and banking services.

Key Accountabilities

• New business origination. Identify, develop and secure new private banking relationships through personal and client referrals, Barclays Group internal networks and corporate and investment banking sources
• Working as directed to achieve personal objectives and assist in achieving team targets for:
• new clients
• assets
• revenues
• Maintain the highest levels of client service and delivery.
• Act as key contact for banking products, credit advice and client queries.
• Deliver high quality bespoke advice, maximising value for our clients and negotiating the best commercial outcome.
• Act as the key interface between the client and other parts of the Barclays group, including:
• Wealth Advisory
• Discretionary Portfolio Management
• Investment Advisory
• Global, Investment & Solutions
• Investment bank
• Corporate bank
  
  
  

Locations: Birmingham, Northampton or Milton Keynes.

• Provide the client with world class financial solutions.
• Be able and willing to discuss markets, their issues and opportunities with clients.
• Fully utilise the banker toolset, systems and platforms, and challenge current standards to continuously improve quality.
• Engage with digital technologies, products and solutions that are relevant to the Wealth business, and have the ability to use them to enhance the service provided to clients.
  
  
  

Purpose of the role

To establish and nurture profitable partnerships with both corporate and individual clients. It's the bridge between the bank's offerings and clients' needs, ensuring mutual benefit and long-term success.

Accountabilities

• Management of client relationships to identify the clients financial goals, challenges, and risk tolerance to support the analysis of data obtained from various sources, including the investment portfolio and cash flow, to identify trends, insights, areas for improvement and additional services to support client needs.
• Research and understanding of the client's industry trends, regulatory landscape, and competitive environment to inform strategic recommendations.
• Design of customised solutions that address the client's specific needs and objectives, incorporating a range of products and services from the bank's portfolio.
• Communication of the value proposition of proposed solutions, justification of recommendations, and negotiation of terms that are beneficial for both the client and the bank.
• Provision of guidance to clients to support their financial decisions, offering expert investment advice, risk management and wealth management strategies support, and updates on market trends to ensure a positive and continuous relationship.
• Assessment of financial, legal, and operational risks associated with client relationships, and implementation of measures to minimise potential losses.
• Documentation of all client interactions, transactions, and agreements to ensure transparency and auditability, and communicate findings effectively to support product development, service offerings, and the overall bank strategy.
• Monitoring of client satisfaction, revenue generated, and other relevant metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of relationship management efforts.
  
  
  

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They 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. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• 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.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• 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.
  
  
  

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Banking and Financial Services

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