Associate Banker

Amsterdam

This role is deemed as a Controlled Function role under the Central Bank of Ireland Fitness and Probity Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.
As a Barclays Associate Banker- Corporate Banking, you will be developing and maintaining relationships within multi-national Dutch corporate clients as well as locally based subsidiaries of global organisations headquartered out with the Netherlands. You will be assisting Relationship Directors with product knowledge, sales research, and customer relationship development, and research into solutions to meet customers’ needs using market and industry information and risk management for the portfolio. Barclays Europe is an essential part of Barclays’ success across the globe. We support the bank’s global growth by servicing European clients and markets. We connect European clients to the power of Barclays globally, offering them access to the largest capital markets and growth opportunities in the US, UK, and Asia. And we offer agile, determined, and resilient people a platform or remarkable professional and personal growth. This is your chance to get closer to Europe and stay more connected than ever to the rest of the globe.Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

Acting as first point of contact for clients along with the Relationship Director, co-ordinating introductions to and from other areas of the Barclays Group

Generating and monitoring leads, preparing pricing, and assisting with credit applications Assisting with the development of, and revisions to the Client Relationship plan

Leading the onboarding process for new clients or new products to existing clients, ensuring that new/existing clients and products are set up on relevant systems

Identifying and researching potential new customers and maintaining a database, preparing client meetings presentations, engaging product specialists

Assisting with annual client reviews and making recommendations to Relationship Directors and improving customer sales and service

Preparing client meeting presentations, engaging product specialists in Ireland/ Europe and other areas of the group ensuring a robust contact strategy is in place

Ensuring compliance with mandatory Risk policies and procedures relating to governance, regulatory compliance (including Financial Crime), operational and legal risk

Building effective working partnerships with internal support functions, including Credit, Legal, KYC, Compliance, assisting with implementation of projects like complex cash management, FX and debt

What we’re looking for:

Experience within financial services with a some understanding of Insurance companies, Private Equity, Asset Managers and Corporate Specialist Solutions

Knowledge of Corporate Banking products, Debt, Credit Analysis and risk management, KYC, Due Diligence

Fluency in English is required, Dutch is highly preferred

Sound knowledge of banking, and operational procedures, cash management, liquidity management, debt and working capital, trade, DCM and FX

Skills that will help you in the role:

Ability to build relationships and stakeholder management

Ability to work within a small, but ambitious local team where flexibility and adaptability are key qualities

Excellent time-management, self-planning, and organizational skills as well as excellent presentation skills and social skills and IT Skills (Microsoft standard packages)

Experience in Customer Due Diligence procedures, awareness of Financial Crime policy and procedures

Where will you be working?
You will be based in our Amsterdam office which is the Head Office for our Investment Banking businesses in the Netherlands. The office has good access to transport links and is easily accessible by car.

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