Private Banker - UHNW

4952 Barclays Bank PLC; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Private Bank in Leeds seeks an experienced Private Banker to expand and manage a portfolio of Ultra High Net Worth clients. You will serve as the primary client contact, delivering bespoke banking and investment advice, and actively growing assets and revenues for the team.

The role requires excellence in servicing UHNW clients, strong risk management, and in-depth market knowledge. You will participate in client events and strategic partnerships to drive performance.

Qualifications

• Experience with Ultra High Net Worth clients is essential.
• Strong risk control experience in a private banking setting is required.
• Excellent knowledge of global economic conditions and current affairs.

Responsibilities

• Support the Senior Private Banker with growing a portfolio of UHNW clients, understanding their financial goals and risk appetite
• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, providing exceptional service and financial advice
• Conduct regular reviews of clients' investment and financial portfolios
• Become a key person and subject matter expert within the team for banking products, credit advice, investment knowledge and more complex client queries
• Deliver high quality bespoke advice, maximising value for our clients and negotiating the best commercial outcome
• Identify and onboard new clients through networking, referrals, and strategic partnerships
• Develop and execute tailored strategies to attract and retain wealthy clients in the region
• Attend client events, wealth management forums, and other high-profile gatherings in London
• Advise on portfolio management, estate planning, succession, and offshore structuring where relevant
• Keep clients informed on market trends, economic updates, and investment opportunities

Skills

UHNW client servicing

Risk management

Relationship management

Market awareness

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

Deliver exceptional sales and business performance by acquiring, developing and maintaining highly proactive, long term client relationships. Protect Barclays reputation through sound risk decisions by managing client group within their risk profile and appropriate regulatory framework.

Accountabilities

Manage and grow client relationships and acquire new clients – identifying and managing solutions to meet a wide range of client needs. Establish a sound understanding of the strategy of the clients in their portfolio through regular proactive contact, responding to client / prospect queries and requests and identifying opportunities that will deliver long term commercial reward. Manage operational, reputational, financial crime and credit risk for the portfolio to avoid exposing Barclays to undue risk. Ensure all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards. Service/group relationships – referrals to group colleagues.

Assistant Vice President Expectations To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.

If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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. OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc). to solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience. Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes. 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.

Join us as a Private Banker within our growing Private Banking and Wealth Management team based in Leeds.

The Private Banking team offers bespoke banking and investment solutions to Ultra high-net-worth clients. Barclays Private Bankers act as trusted advisors to clients providing bespoke banking services, lending and wealth structuring, in addition to a world class range of investment solutions and products across all asset classes. Private Bankers are expected to identify, initiate, build and maintain effective introductory relationships with key internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure effective opportunity streams for new clients, assets and revenues. In order to achieve this, you must be proactive in identifying and developing opportunity and must be accomplished in influencing others to create and grow effective partnerships across the organisation, and externally, to drive performance.

What you will be doing:

• Support the Senior Private Banker with growing a portfolio of UHNW clients, understanding their financial goals and risk appetite
• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, providing exceptional service and financial advice
• Conduct regular reviews of clients' investment and financial portfolios
• Become a key person and subject matter expert within the team for banking products, credit advice, investment knowledge and more complex client queries
• Deliver high quality bespoke advice, maximising value for our clients and negotiating the best commercial outcome
• Identify and onboard new clients through networking, referrals, and strategic partnerships
• Develop and execute tailored strategies to attract and retain wealthy clients in the region
• Attend client events, wealth management forums, and other high-profile gatherings in London
• Advise on portfolio management, estate planning, succession, and offshore structuring where relevant
• Keep clients informed on market trends, economic updates, and investment opportunities

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Level 4 RDR qualified or equivalent
• Exceptional client servicing and relationship management skills with Ultra-High-Net-worth Clients and demonstrable experience in building and managing this client base
• Previous experience in controlling and monitoring of risk within a client book
• Strong knowledge of global economic and political conditions, current affairs and competitor activity and the impact of these on clients

Desirable skills:

• Previous experience working as a Private Banker with a client base with investable assets of a minimum of £3m
• Excellent knowledge of regulated credit agreements/investment advice/ deposits/ portfolio management services/financial promotions
• High aptitude and understanding of the digital landscape, with the ability to effectively manage Clients’ changing needs in this area

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role is based in Leeds. This role is deemed as a Certified role under the PRA & UK Financial Conduct Authority - Individual Accountabilities Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

Our Work Experience

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.