Job summary

Due to the growth of our Coverage business, we are currently looking for an Assistant Relationship Manager to join our Relationship Management team for Financial Institutions at Standard Chartered Bank branch in Paris. 

In this role you will be responsible for supporting the team with leading the new transactions and proactive management of portfolio including client and product partner engagement. You will primarily focus on the non-banking financial institution (NBFI) clients across France, BeLux and Southern Europe region.

Key responsibilities

•    Supporting Senior Bankers in leading and originating sales and marketing for products and solutions offered by Standard Chartered Bank
•    Developing your own client relationships with existing and new client base
•    Taking responsibility for independently driving certain origination initiatives within client relationships
•    Engaging with Standard Chartered global network to originate new opportunities
•    Providing support on new business transactions i.e. deal execution support, document negotiation, coordination with Product Sales and Client Management team
•    Driving product and geography cross-sell with clients
•    Undertaking client research including client analysis, monitoring of origination activities; client meeting documentation; briefing notes
•    Supporting on sales discipline requirements i.e. Account Planning process; pipeline maintenance; client call reports; preparation of deal approval submissions

Skills and experience

•    Bachelor degree in Banking, Economics, Finance or Accounting preferred
•    Minimum 3-5 years of relevant banking experience, ideally working with NBFI clients
•    Understanding of the business/market landscape in France and Continental Europe would be beneficial
•    Existing client relationships seen as an advantage
•    Fluency in English and French is a must, additional language skills (e.g. Italian, Spanish) would be seen as an advantage
•    Excellent written and oral communication skills
•    Excellent stakeholder management skills
•    Strong credit skills and experience in credit related work

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.