RELATIONSHIP BANKER

First Horizon Bank; New Iberia (LA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

First Horizon Bank in New Iberia, LA is seeking a Relationship Banker to engage clients in consultative conversations, understand financial goals, and align on banking solutions. This role drives growth by promoting the bank’s products and services while deepening client relationships through personalized advice and proactive sales.

The position supports the banking center’s overall sales goals and handles complex assignments.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.

Responsibilities

• Proactively engage clients to understand priorities and recommend banking solutions, focusing on deposits and loans.
• Identify client deposit and borrowing needs; open accounts and process loan applications.
• Provide personalized financial advice aligned with client goals and knowledge of bank products and services.
• Make referrals to mortgage, wealth, private client, and business banking partners.
• Proactive client outreach with tailored financial solutions.
• Coach associates on sales, referrals, and product knowledge to support high performance.
• Support teller line to minimize wait times and process transactions as needed.
• Deliver excellent client experiences and promptly resolve issues.
• Attend training to deepen product knowledge and stay updated.
• Ensure compliance with bank regulations, policies, risk management, internal controls, and ethics.
• Assist Banking Center Manager with training and on-the-job coaching of staff.
• Assist with vault responsibilities and audit controls, staying informed of updates.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education

High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Relationship Banker is a trusted advisor who engages clients in meaningful, consultative conversations to understand their financial goals and align on solutions that meet their needs. In this role, you will drive growth by actively promoting and selling the bank’s products and services. This role emphasizes deepening client relationships through excellent service, personalized advice, and proactive sales while supporting the banking center’s overall sales goals. This role performs the most complex assignments.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Proactive Sales Engagement: Engage clients in consultative conversations to understand financial priorities and recommend personalized banking solutions, with an emphasis on deposit accounts, loans and lines of credit, and referrals to other lines of business within the Bank.
• Growth Focus: Actively identify and fulfill client deposit and borrowing needs, guiding clients through deposit and loan options, opening deposit accounts, and taking loan applications.
• Client-Centric Financial Advice: Through a consultative approach, provide personalized financial advice that aligns with clients’ short-and-long term goals. Utilize a deep understanding of the bank’s products and services while sharing comprehensive, tailored advice that enhance client satisfaction and loyalty.
• Referrals: Recognize opportunities to deepen relationships with additional products and services and make referrals to bank partners, including but not limited to mortgage, wealth, private client, and business banking.
• Proactive Client Outreach: Conduct regular calls to clients and prospects to offer tailored financial solutions.
• Sales Leadership: Support a high-performing culture by coaching associates on sales, referrals, products and services as needed.

Summary

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Relationship Banker is a trusted advisor who engages clients in meaningful, consultative conversations to understand their financial goals and align on solutions that meet their needs. In this role, you will drive growth by actively promoting and selling the bank’s products and services. This role emphasizes deepening client relationships through excellent service, personalized advice, and proactive sales while supporting the banking center’s overall sales goals. This role performs the most complex assignments.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Sales and Business Development

• Proactive Sales Engagement: Engage clients in consultative conversations to understand financial priorities and recommend personalized banking solutions, with an emphasis on deposit accounts, loans and lines of credit, and referrals to other lines of business within the Bank.
• Growth Focus: Actively identify and fulfill client deposit and borrowing needs, guiding clients through deposit and loan options, opening deposit accounts, and taking loan applications.
• Client-Centric Financial Advice: Through a consultative approach, provide personalized financial advice that aligns with clients’ short-and-long term goals. Utilize a deep understanding of the bank’s products and services while sharing comprehensive, tailored advice that enhance client satisfaction and loyalty.
• Referrals: Recognize opportunities to deepen relationships with additional products and services and make referrals to bank partners, including but not limited to mortgage, wealth, private client, and business banking.
• Proactive Client Outreach: Conduct regular calls to clients and prospects to offer tailored financial solutions.
• Sales Leadership: Support a high-performing culture by coaching associates on sales, referrals, products and services as needed.

Client Experience

• Responsible for supporting the teller line to keep the customer wait time to a minimum (performs processing of financial transactions as needed).
• Deliver excellent client experiences consistently and promptly resolve client issues effectively.
• Enhance individual knowledge to better serve clients by attending relevant sales, service, and product knowledge meetings, training classes, and web-based learning.

Compliance and risk management

• Expected compliance with bank regulations, policies, procedures, risk management, internal controls, and the First Horizon code of ethics.

Operational efficiency

• Assist in conducting meetings to promote sales, product knowledge and customer service. Assist Banking Center Manager with training personnel.
• Assist banking center management with “on the job training” of new associates.
• Assist with dual control vault responsibilities and audit controls.
• Stay informed of all operational updates and changes to ensure compliance with all current guidelines.
• Perform all other job related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

No supervisory responsibilities

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)