Client Associate

Citi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Client Associate in Geneva to support Private Client Coverage. You will work in a hybrid setup, assisting bankers with client onboarding, profiling, and ongoing relationship management, while ensuring compliance with KYC/AML and regulatory standards.

The role emphasizes evaluating client information, coordinating meetings, and contributing to revenue growth through thoughtful analyses and strategic support for investments and banking products.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of investments; banking and credit products desirable.
• Ability to manage internal and external relationships; ability to prioritize.
• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide complete service support to client, including solving complex client inquiries.
• Provide day to day support to Banker on documentation such as account opening and closing, loan disbursals, etc.
• Client/prospect meetings - Organize the pre-call planning, organizing post-meeting notes, and maintain all client call records including call reports.
• Assist the Banker in profiling, qualifying and converting prospects into Citi Private Bank clients.
• Assist the Banker in deepening the existing client relationship through deep-dive analysis.
• Assist the Banker in the creation of sales and marketing strategies designed to generate revenue growth and to acquire new target clients, with a focus on Investments.
• Assist the Banker with prospecting - conduct new client/prospect research, generate leads and develop prospects, network to identify referrals to new clients/prospects, and coordinate client events.
• Provide accurate and timely revenue tracking and deal pipeline reports and other relevant information to the Banker.
• Ensure appropriate documentation related to KYC/ AML from the client and ensure all aspects of client records and documentation are completed and updated.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Skills

Investments knowledge

Banking products

Relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Client Associate

Location(s):

Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

Job Type:

Hybrid

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Job Overview

The Client Associate is a developing professional role. Applies specialty area knowledge in monitoring, assessing, analyzing and/or evaluating processes and data. Identifies policy gaps and formulates policies. Interprets data and makes recommendations. Researches and interprets factual information. Identifies inconsistencies in data or results, defines business issues and formulates recommendations on policies, procedures or practices. Integrates established disciplinary knowledge within own specialty area with basic understanding of related industry practices. Good understanding of how the team interacts with others in accomplishing the objectives of the area. Develops working knowledge of industry practices and standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide complete service support to client, including solving complex client inquiries
• Provide day to day support to Banker on documentation such as account opening and closing, loan disbursals, etc.
• Client/prospect meetings - Organize the pre-call planning, organizing post-meeting notes, and maintain all client call records including call reports
• Assist the Banker in profiling, qualifying and converting prospects into Citi Private Bank clients.
• Assist the Banker in deepening the existing client relationship through deep-dive analysis
• Assist the Banker in the creation of sales and marketing strategies designed to generate revenue growth and to acquire new target clients, with a focus on Investments
• Assist the Banker with prospecting - conduct new client/prospect research, generate leads and develop prospects, network to identify referrals to new clients/prospects, and coordinate client events
• Provide accurate and timely revenue tracking and deal pipeline reports and other relevant information to the Banker
• Ensure appropriate documentation related to KYC/ AML from the client and ensure all aspects of client records and documentation are completed and updated
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years relevant experience
• Knowledge of investments is required; banking and credit products desirable
• Ability to manage relationships both internal and external; Ability to prioritize
• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience

Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime. The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.

Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.

Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:

• Honesty, integrity and reputation
• Financial soundness
• Competence and capability

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.

This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.

Job Family Group

Private Client Coverage

Job Family

Private Banker Support

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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