Relationship Support Manager

**Relationship Support Manager - Corporate Banking**
**Paris**

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 Relationship Support Manager - Corporate Banking, you will be developing and maintaining relationships within Insurance, Funds and Corporate Specialist Solutions coverage team within France. Assisting the Relationship Directors with product knowledge, sales research, and research into solutions to meet customers’ needs using market and industry information & risk management for the portfolio will be part of your role.

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.

**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
- Spearheading 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 and Operations

**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 French and English
- 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?**
Dating from 1922, Barclays has a long established presence in France. Today, from our office in Paris we provide a full service Investment Bank offering to our local and global clients. Our integrated coverage model means we are able to provide our clients with access to deep expertise across sectors, regions and products. We deliver informed strategic advice, comprehensive financial solutions and risk management services, creating sophisticated strategies customised to meet our clients’ needs.

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