Our client is looking for a Relationship Manager to temporarily join their team and own and develop a portfolio of local clients.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing business opportunities with existing and new clients by growing strong client and introducer relationships.
• Acting as the main point of contact for existing clients.
• Understanding of the bank's financial targets and being aware of the commerciality of your client portfolio.
• Enabling your clients to be on-boarded effectively, whilst fully understanding and being able to present all client risk aspects.
• Cross-departmental co-ordination to deliver products and services for your client portfolio.
• Raising the public profile of the bank both locally and overseas, including attendance at corporate events.
• Providing assistance to other team members during busy times.
• Periodic risk reviews in order to assess ongoing risks to the bank and to oversee that any KYC/AML shortfalls are remedied.

Your qualifications and skills include:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in a front office client relationship role or equivalent.
• Target oriented, with a record of meeting set objectives.
• A willingness to undertake sales management, and in particular in the design and delivery of effective calling programmes and cross-selling initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• A high degree of risk awareness and compliance orientation.
• A pro-active approach to suggest new ideas/innovation/process change to deliver for client requirements.
• Ability to think outside of the box and enthusiasm for change and the unexpected.