Onboarding Relationship Manager

Embark on an exciting opportunity as a member of the Onboarding relationship Management team, where you’ll play a pivot role in providing support to bring clients from the respective trading entities on board in an efficient, reliable and controlled manner, minimizing impacts to clients and ensuring they are provided with a Best-In-Class Onboarding service. The team is responsible for all activity relating to the on-boarding of clients on behalf of the Barclays Corporate and Investment Banking businesses in Asia Pacific namely Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Japan, Australia and India. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring Front office partners/ Clients are provided with an efficient, timely on-boarding process whilst delivering a best-in-class service to both internal and external stakeholders.

The role collaborates with Front office, KYC, Product, Credit, Legal and Account Set Up Teams.  To thrive in this role, you will need below:

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or four years’ equivalent work experience in the Onboarding, KYC, Regulatory area.

• Worked in Financial Services or client facing/client service

• Excellent in stakeholder management, written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to multi-task and manage heavy volumes of work and prioritize accordingly.

• Energetic “Can Do” Attitude who must act on own initiative - Proactive and positive attitude and desire to make a difference.

• Desire to work in a team environment and collaborate with global team in order to complete goals and be self-motivated and highly engaged with a willingness to accept obstacles and work with tight deadlines.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualification :

• Increase depth of knowledge in AML/KYC, Product, Regulatory, Credit, Legal, Ops and Tech Infrastructure, enabling the ability to challenge inefficiencies along the ETE journey and promote/influence improvement areas.

• Strong analytical skills and detail oriented, with Strong Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel)., where you’ll play a pivot role in providing support to bring clients from the respective trading entities on board in an efficient, reliable and controlled manner, minimizing impacts to clients and ensuring they are provided with a Best-In-Class Onboarding service. The team is responsible for all activity relating to the on-boarding of clients on behalf of the Barclays Corporate and Investment Banking businesses in Asia Pacific namely Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Japan, Australia and India. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring Front office partners/ Clients are provided with an efficient, timely on-boarding process whilst delivering a best-in-class service to both internal and external stakeholders.

You may be assessed on 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.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific, and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

Purpose of the role

To support Wholesale Onboarding with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, and issue resolution. 

Accountabilities

• Support with day-to-day Wholesale Onboarding initiatives including KYC processing, reviewing (which can include Quality Checking), reporting, trading and issue resolution.
• Collaboration and engagement with clients/front office to gather Customer Due Diligence information/evidence in order to onboard or refresh a clients KYC in line with documented policy.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate Wholesale Onboarding processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations for change in Wholesale Onboarding processes.
• Development and implementation of Wholesale Onboarding procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on Wholesale Onboarding performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in Wholesale Onboarding.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve Wholesale Onboarding efficiency and effectiveness.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.