Relationship Manager - SME Liabilities

Standard Chartered India; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Learning & development

Job summary

Standard Chartered India is seeking a Relationship Manager to grow our SME portfolio in Bengaluru. You will engage clients, uncover banking needs, and provide tailored solutions across cash management, trade services, treasury and lending to support business growth.

You will work closely with credit teams to ensure sound lending decisions, adhere to EAR and regulatory standards, and deliver proactive service while building trusted relationships with new and existing customers.

Qualifications

• Graduate / MBA degree required or equivalent.
• Experience in relationship management and SME banking preferred.
• Knowledge of cash management, trade services and lending considerations.

Responsibilities

• Achieve individual financial and non-financial targets and contribute to team deliverables.
• Generate new business by identifying prospects and converting in line with the bank's appetite.
• Formulate account plans; provide clients needs-based solutions and credit facilities.
• Proactively build trusted client relationships and manage a growing portfolio.
• Market and sell products including trade services, cash management, treasury and investment.
• Prepare credit proposals and annual reviews on a timely basis.
• Work with credit teams to ensure quality lending decisions and policy adherence.
• Implement business plans to achieve sales and revenue targets.
• Generate ideas on customer acquisition and product improvements.
• Feedback to leadership on new financial needs and process improvements.

Skills

Relationship Manager

Current account knowledge

Cash management

Forex

Investments

Education

Graduate / MBA

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Achieve individual financial and non-financial targets while contributing towards team’s overall deliverables through:
• effectively generating new business – identify prospects and convert in line with the Bank’s appetite
• strategically formulating account plan – provide clients needs-based solutions, structure appropriate credit facility, and execute various banking transactions
• proactively building trusted client relationships – maintain a portfolio of active and growing customers
• Market and sell broad range of products including trade service, cash management, treasury and investment
• Prepare credit proposal and loan application of customers; prepare annual review on timely basis
• Work closely with credit team to ensure good quality lending decisions are made; to ensure the strict adherence to the prevailing EAR / credit policy
• Implement agreed business plan to achieve sales/ revenue targets
• Generate creative ideas on customer acquisition and products/ services
• Regularly feed back to Team Leader and peers on new and anticipated financial and service needs and recommend appropriate improvements to processes on new products
• Maintain a high level of professionalism in client engagement, internal stakeholder management and other business conduct

Business

• Achieve individual financial and non-financial targets while contributing towards team’s overall deliverables through:
• effectively generating new business – identify prospects and convert in line with the Bank’s appetite
• strategically formulating account plan – provide clients needs-based solutions, structure appropriate credit facility, and execute various banking transactions
• proactively building trusted client relationships – maintain a portfolio of active and growing customers
• Market and sell broad range of products including trade service, cash management, treasury and investment
• Prepare credit proposal and loan application of customers; prepare annual review on timely basis
• Work closely with credit team to ensure good quality lending decisions are made; to ensure the strict adherence to the prevailing EAR / credit policy
• Implement agreed business plan to achieve sales/ revenue targets
• Generate creative ideas on customer acquisition and products/ services
• Regularly feed back to Team Leader and peers on new and anticipated financial and service needs and recommend appropriate improvements to processes on new products
• Maintain a high level of professionalism in client engagement, internal stakeholder management and other business conduct

Processes

• Drive continuous improvement of the operational efficiency and effectiveness of processes to increase the consistency of systems and processes.
• Support the framework for effective management of operational risks across the Business and compliance with applicable internal policies, and external laws and regulations at a global level.
• Support the execution of Business strategy in a safe and well-controlled manner and on an end-to-end basis – incorporating infrastructure requirements and ensuring that they are fit-for-growth.
• Conduct regular and timely customer due diligence (CDD) reviews
• Ensure CDD profiles are error free for timely sign off
• Follow and comply with AML CDD policies and procedures where applicable
• Identify KYC issues, provide solution or escalated to line manager if necessary
• Ensure internal / external KYC requirements are adhered to AML CDD policies and procedures
• Timely handling of customer issues, complaints, and product enquiries in accordance with established procedures

People & Talent

• Embed the Group’s values and culture Embed the Group’s values and culture
• Coach peers and more junior staff as appropriate
• Partner effectively with internal stakeholders to deliver effective client solutions

Risk Management

• Abide by appropriate frameworks to guarantee that business is carried out within the Group’s risk appetite and relevant risks are appropriately managed in conjunction with line managers other stakeholders.

Governance

• Ensure relevant systems and controls pertaining to the role remit are in compliance with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards and codes, including those governing all Risk types, Compliance, Operational Risk, Technology and Operations, Finance and Reputation
• Ensure adherence with the following Regulatory Compliance policies and processes (as is applicable):
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and all applicable money laundering prevention procedures
• Client Due Diligence & Related Periodic Reviews
• Client Suitability Standards
• Treating Customers Fairly
• Approval & review of Credit Applications
• Maintain Documentary standards
• Data Confidentiality
• Cross-Border Policy
• Sanctions
• Environmental and Social Risk Management (ESRM)
• Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)
• Embed the Group’s values and code of conduct to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees form part of the culture
• Engage with all audit report findings and ensure feedback is acted upon

Regulatory & Business conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead the Business to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Operation of Financial Markets; Financial Crime Prevention; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Colleagues in SME and CDD teams, Product, Risk, Compliance and other support Functions and Businesses

Skills And Experience

• Relationship Manager
• Product knowledge – Current account
• Cash Management solutions
• Forex
• Managed investmentsAPE

Qualifications

• Graduate / MBA or other Equivalent

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do

Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well

Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer

• In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.