Job Summary
As an Assistant Relationship Banker , you will provide high-impact, front-office sales support to a Senior Banker/Banker, helping originate new business and deepen relationships across a portfolio of large French corporate clients and prospects. Working in close partnership with the Banker, you will be jointly accountable for client revenues and portfolio profitability, bringing strong analytical capability, disciplined execution and polished client materials to every interaction. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, client-facing environment and enjoys collaborating across product and regional teams to deliver outstanding client outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively support the Senior Banker/Banker with end-to-end origination activity—client research, industry and market insights, and development of high-quality pitch materials that are tailored, clear and client-ready.
- Produce bespoke client analysis (including competitor and positioning insights), prepare briefing notes, and create concise meeting documentation to support client engagement and follow-through.
- Support account planning processes, maintain a healthy and accurate pipeline, prepare call reports, and contribute to internal deal submissions and approvals with strong attention to detail.
- Assist on new transactions through execution—support documentation coordination and negotiation workflows, help drive timely drawdowns, and ensure accurate fee booking and revenue recognition in partnership with internal stakeholders.
- Coordinate with product and coverage partners to support returns calculations and pricing analysis, ensuring proposals are commercially robust and aligned to client strategy.
- Proactively manage the client portfolio by engaging clients and internal partners to help optimise limit utilisation, and ensure accuracy of revenue, returns and client profitability insights
People and Talent
• Support and develop juniors on the team
Risk Management
• In partnership with the Credit Analyst, identify clients that need to be classified as Early Alert with Credit and/or transferred to GSAM
• Support the CA on periodic credit reviews / ongoing monitoring with requested information/ and engagement with the client (if required) particularly during periods of market volatility
Governance
• Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group’s arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas
• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
• Responsible for delivering ‘effective governance’; capability to challenge fellow executives effectively; and willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner.
Skills and Experience
Core capabilities
- Corporate banking coverage support: Demonstrated experience supporting relationship managers/bankers with origination, client engagement preparation, and transaction workflows in corporate banking or a closely related environment.
- Commercial & analytical strength: Strong analytical skills—comfortable interpreting client financials, assessing profitability drivers, supporting pricing/returns analysis, and creating executive-ready insights.
- Excellent communication & materials: Advanced ability to craft clear, professional client materials (especially pitchbooks) and produce crisp briefing notes and meeting documentation.
- Process discipline & execution: Highly organised with strong follow-through; confident managing multiple priorities, coordinating stakeholders, and keeping pipeline/account planning administration accurate and current.
- Collaboration across a network: Proven ability to work effectively with product and regional partners to deliver coordinated client solutions and timely execution.
Tools & working style
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint capability; confident producing client-ready outputs under time pressure.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-standards environment with strong attention to detail and confidentiality.
Languages
- English
- French
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 thing and 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-off including 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 working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing support through 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 culture to 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.