Junior Business Manager

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

You join the Business Management team of Bank Julius Baer Europe S.A. (BJBE) as Junior Business Manager in Italy. BJBE is the European Hub of Julius Baer Group operating within selected EU markets (e.g. Spain, Ireland, Italy). You will join the branch in Italy as Junior Business Manager and become part of a very dynamic, growing and client-focused organization and team, both in Italy and Luxembourg. As a Junior Business Manager, your job consists of the day-to-day support of and interaction with the Front Office (Relationship Management) in Italy to support the growth activities and to increase profitability and efficiency of the branch. You act as the first point of contact for the Front Office (Relationship Manager, Relationship Manager Assistant) with an open, client-, service- and business-oriented mindset. As a Junior Business Manager, you are responsible for steering business-related projects/initiatives focused on enhancing the Front Office processes and supporting the growth. In addition to your role as Junior Business Manager, you act as the first point of contact (Executive Assistant) for the Management (Branch Management).

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Proactively support the Front Office (RMs, Team Head) as a solution-oriented Business Manager to further grow and manage the business (i.e. operational support in selected processes, etc.)
• Support the implementation of new ideas to further grow the business and increase profitability
• Support the Management (Branch Management, Team Head, etc.) to further develop the branch (growth, profitability, etc.)
• Support the Management (Branch Management, Team Head) in fulfilling the reporting and documentation requirements
• Act as Executive Assistant to Branch Manager (e.g. preparation of meetings, handling of agenda)
• Responsible for KPI steering and management of the branch (e.g. forecasting, growth development)
• Day-to-day support of the Front office (RMs, RMAs), e.g. support RM requests, responsibility for selected operational approvals
• Support the implementation of global/local initiatives with RM/client impact
• Support the Front office with regard to non-plain vanilla requests and alignment with local and global (LU, CH) stakeholders
• Ensure consistent information flow to Front office, i.e. proactively communicate changes/important information across the Front Office (e.g. prepare and run recurring RM meeting)
• Reporting from a Front perspective (e.g. Branch reporting, Market/Region reporting)
• In collaboration with the Front Office (RM, RMAs), proactively develop, detect and implement possibilities to enhance processes to increase efficiency and ensure full focus on growth
• Perform/support data requests (from Head Office, Regulator, etc.)

YOUR PROFILE

• Banking apprenticeship and Master's degree in Economics, Finance or other related fields
• Knowledge of and experience (min 2 years) in financial markets and private banking sector, especially in an international context
• Experience in Relationship Management (e.g. Relationship Management Assistant) or Business Management is an added value
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong client and business orientation
• Ability to adapt to fast-changing environments
• Deep analytical and conceptual skills
• Strong ability to think interconnected
• Strong team player
• Structured working method
• Work on own initiative, take responsibility and solution-oriented
• MS Excel and MS PowerPoint skills
• Fluent in Italian and English

We are looking forward to receiving your full job application through our online application tool.

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