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Date live: Jun. 30, 2025

Business Area: Private Bank Asia

Area of Expertise: Relationship Management

Reference Code: 90390454

Contract: Permanent

Additional Job Description

Person Specification

Our professionals come from diverse international backgrounds such as law, accountancy, corporate finance and equity analysis as well as private banking. They all have a breadth of experience in their area of geographical expertise. All of our client-facing professionals are ‘mapped’ to a market focused team comprised of multi-lingual individuals who are fluent in all aspects related to their clients’ needs including local market, tax, estate planning and liquidity.

  • Very strong relationship skills with experience of managing and handling the sophisticated needs of individuals and families

  • Experience of building a client base using internal and external networks

  • Effective in gaining an in-depth understanding of client’s needs and advising on a diverse range of wealth management solutions

  • Satisfies the criteria for an approved person both initially and ongoing – this will involve obtaining the relevant qualifications if not already qualified.

  • Significant experience of the Financial Services industry and skilled in differentiating advice according to the complexity of the client’s requirements.

  • Detailed regulatory knowledge, in particular of Indian regulatory requirements, and an overall understanding of the business impact of the regulatory environment.

  • Excellent market exposure and multi-disciplined private banking expertise

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

  • Educated to Degree level

  • Appropriate regulatory qualifications

  • Fluent in English and Hindi

  • Fluency in other Indian languages added advantage (regionally-specific)

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

  • Entrepreneurial spirit but also with a collegiate approach

  • Embraces challenge and an evolving/changing environment

  • Rapidly assimilates new information and applies this knowledge as appropriate

Job Location is Mumbai.

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

  • 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.

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