Associate Director

**Associate Director - International Corporate Clients**
**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 Associate Director - International Corporate Clients, you will be developing a client portfolio for multinationals corporations based in France. This is an exciting role to help with implementing the European business plan in the for new and existing clients, identifying new corridor revenue opportunities, and building a book of clients. You will work with the Investment Banking/ product partners to ensure it is leveraging the breadth of the Product set and delivering the entire Barclays platform to its clients.

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?**
- Developing and implementing clear client strategies and assisting the relationship directors with new and existing client relationships
- Working with the Operations team to ensure that processes and controls are effective and to ensure that transaction turnarounds are within timeframe
- Working closely with Group partners in Corporate Bank, Lending, Investment Bank, Barclaycard, to ensure client strategy is defined and executed
- Engaging with impact and influencing at a senior level internally and within client organisations up to C-Suite level, communicate the strategy, resourcing, and executing plans
- Helping with conformance of global standards and high-risk governance policies and for EDD and maintaining constructive relationships with regulators, and other key stakeholders
- Delivering end-to-end support throughout the sales cycle: target identification, pitchbook preparation, roadshows, pricing, committee approvals, onboarding, implementation
- Working actively with Product Partners, operations team, and the wider Barclays Group to increase wallet share of existing clients

**What we’re looking for**:

- Experience within financial services and other sectors with regular exposure to complex clients and situations
- Fluency in English, and French along with experience of developing relationships and new business development with multinational corporations
- Knowledge of complex Corporate/ Investment Banking product suite including Debt, Trade and Working Capital, Cash, investments, transactional products, and FX, regulatory
- Exposure to European Financial Markets, International experience in credit and market risk management, internal control, and financial control systems

**Skills that will help you in the role**:

- Experience within a global corporate banking organisation or financial institutions
- Ability to work within a small, but ambitious local team where flexibility and adaptability are key qualities
- Knowledge of transaction banking, cards and payments, compliance, FX
- Experience delivering continuous improvements to BAU high risk governance process and procedures and documentation

**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 can 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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