Private Banker - VP

Private Banker | Barclays | Monaco.

Join us as a Private Banker based in Monaco, where you will play a pivotal role in cultivating and managing long-term relationships with ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals, families, and select corporate clients. You will act as a trusted advisor, connecting client ambitions with the bank’s global expertise across bespoke banking, investment, and lending solutions. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of private wealth management in one of the world’s most prestigious financial hubs — delivering exceptional service, tailored strategies, and sustainable growth for clients and the bank alike.

In this role, you will manage and grow a portfolio of ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) private and corporate clients, developing a deep understanding of their financial goals and risk appetite. You will provide a full range of private banking services — including bespoke lending, wealth planning, and investment solutions across all asset classes — tailored to each client’s needs.

Acting as the key link between clients and internal specialists in investment, credit, and fiduciary services, you will coordinate the delivery of holistic, high-quality wealth strategies. You will also drive business development through proactive relationship management, networking, and targeted client acquisition, with a focus on sustainable, profitable growth.

You will uphold the highest standards of governance, compliance, and ethics in every client interaction, ensuring all activities meet regulatory and internal requirements. As a senior representative of the bank in Monaco’s private wealth ecosystem, you will build a strong professional presence and network both regionally and internationally.

Essential Criteria:

• Extensive experience in private banking or wealth management, ideally at VP level or equivalent, managing UHNW individual and family relationships.
• Proven track record in developing and expanding client relationships, with strong origination and portfolio management skills.
• Deep understanding of financial markets, investment products, and credit solutions, with the ability to structure complex, bespoke offerings.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to align client needs with the bank’s strategic objectives.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, capable of building trust and delivering client-centric advice.
• Fluency in English; French or Italian proficiency would be advantageous.
• Solid understanding of the Monaco regulatory and financial landscape.

Desirable Criteria:

• Strong digital and analytical aptitude, leveraging technology to enhance client experience and efficiency.
• International mindset and experience serving clients across multiple jurisdictions.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to thrive in a dynamic, performance-driven environment.
• Demonstrated leadership in business development, networking, and client acquisition.

This role is in Monaco.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role

To establish and nurture profitable partnerships with both corporate and individual clients. It's the bridge between the bank's offerings and clients' needs, ensuring mutual benefit and long-term success. 

Accountabilities

• Management of client relationships to identify the clients financial goals, challenges, and risk tolerance to support the analysis of data obtained from various sources, including the investment portfolio and cash flow, to identify trends, insights, areas for improvement and additional services to support client needs.
• Research and understanding of the client's industry trends, regulatory landscape, and competitive environment to inform strategic recommendations.
• Design of customised solutions that address the client's specific needs and objectives, incorporating a range of products and services from the bank's portfolio.
• Communication of the value proposition of proposed solutions, justification of recommendations, and negotiation of terms that are beneficial for both the client and the bank.
• Provision of guidance to clients to support their financial decisions, offering expert investment advice, risk management and wealth management strategies support, and updates on market trends to ensure a positive and continuous relationship.
• Assessment of financial, legal, and operational risks associated with client relationships, and implementation of measures to minimise potential losses.
• Documentation of all client interactions, transactions, and agreements to ensure transparency and auditability, and communicate findings effectively to support product development, service offerings, and the overall bank strategy.
• Monitoring of client satisfaction, revenue generated, and other relevant metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of relationship management efforts.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.