Client Manager

Standard Chartered; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

An international financial institution is seeking a Client Management Specialist to enhance client servicing and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate should hold a Bachelor's degree and have 5-10 years of banking experience, particularly in Client Due Diligence. Responsibilities include managing end-to-end client processes and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. The role offers opportunities for professional growth and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of banking experience with focus on Client Due Diligence/Client Servicing.
• Strong understanding of Financial Crime Compliance.
• Proficient in documentation and record keeping.

Responsibilities

• Manage complete end-to-end client processes.
• Conduct thorough due diligence during client onboarding.
• Maintain strong client relationships and resolve complaints.

Skills

Client Management

Stakeholder Management

Regulatory Knowledge

Risk Management

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in relevant field

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

This role orchestrates processes for Client Management, guaranteeing a smooth and engaging experience for clients. It facilitates execution, collaborates with key stakeholders, and accelerates client preparedness for transactions. Additionally, it aligns the CCIB business with Client Management, addresses existing gaps, and enhances operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

The role encompasses a wide and comprehensive range of responsibilities that are specifically aimed at delivering exceptional and high-quality client service, while also significantly improving operational efficiency. Key duties include orchestrating, coordinating, and managing the complete end-to-end client processes, which ensures a seamless delivery of services and facilitates strong client engagement throughout every stage of the interaction. This role requires close collaboration with Relationship Managers (RMs), Product Sales teams, Operations departments, and other relevant stakeholders to effectively resolve client issues and to identify new opportunities for service enhancement and improvement. It also involves implementing a scalable and client-focused management model that differentiates the level of service based on client tiering, while ensuring that error rates remain minimal and manageable.
A critical aspect of this role is the continuous improvement of operational processes, with a strong focus on increasing overall consistency and efficiency. The position ensures alignment with the Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking (CCIB) business priorities through regular and proactive engagement, addressing any potential gaps that may arise, and providing ongoing support and advice on the necessary documentation for lending units. This includes managing the various aspects of client onboarding, conducting thorough due diligence, and overseeing regulatory activities, all while ensuring strict compliance with established policies and procedures.
Maintaining strong and positive client relationships is essential in this position, which involves providing comprehensive account management support, effectively resolving complaints, and advising clients on their documentation requirements. Additionally, the role entails managing the credit documentation processes, coordinating closely with legal and compliance teams, and ensuring the accuracy of data at all times. Facilitating the account opening and channel activation processes for CCIB and Banking and Business Banking (BB) clients is another key responsibility, aimed at ensuring a fast setup and providing excellent service to all clients.
Furthermore, this role includes managing the maintenance of client portfolios, handling past dues and excesses, supporting various financial transactions, and actively participating in business meetings and reviews. Lastly, it involves performing static data maintenance and offboarding activities, ensuring that accurate updates are made and that there is adherence to compliance requirements, all while continuously seeking opportunities for process improvements and promoting best practices within the organization.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Minimum Bachelors Degree in relevant field
• 5-10 yrs of banking experience in with focus on Client Due Diligence/ Client Servicing /client facing operations
• Regulatory and Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) knowledge
• Good Risk Management knowledge
• Good communication skills
• Stakeholder management skills
• Good documentation and record keeping
• Good client Management and Communication skills

Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Manage Conduct
• Manage Risk
• Manage People
• Operational
• Process Management
• Data Conversion and Reporting
• Business / Product Knowledge

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 thingand 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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.