Private Banker- Italy Coverage

Private Banker- Italy Coverage
Dublin

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 Private Banker, you will be growing, managing, and maintaining a book of ultra-high net worth and family offices clients in Italy and potentially other EEA countries. You will bring an established and proven network of contacts in Italy and would actively leverage that to develop the Private Bank’s penetration into this market. The primary location for the role is Dublin, and potentially offering the possibility to work in our Barclays offices in Milan in the near future, subject to changes in our operating model in Italy.

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 worlds 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.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Working as a team in achieving targets for new client acquisition, netting new asset, credit, investment acquisitions, and revenues
• Maintaining the highest levels of client service and delivery, and acting as key contact for banking products, credit advice and client queries
• Delivering high quality bespoke advice, maximising value for our clients and negotiating the best commercial outcome
• Acting as the key interface between the client and other teams including Wealth Advisory, Discretionary Portfolio Management, Investment Advisory, Global, Investment & Solutions
• Being able and willing to discuss markets, their issues, and opportunities with clients
• Fully utilising the banker toolset, systems and platforms, and challenging current standards to continuously improve quality
• Engaging with digital technologies, products and solutions that are relevant to the Wealth business, and using them to enhance the service provided to clients
• Having technical knowledge and expertise in applying analytical reasoning and judgement to solve highly complex problems, delivering the highest levels of client advice and service

What we’re looking for:

• Exceptional relationship skills and experience of managing and handling the needs of private client individuals and families
• Ability to gain in-depth understanding of clients’ needs and advising on a diverse range of wealth management solutions
• Fluency in English and Italian languages with previous experience in controlling and monitoring of risk within a client book
• Previous experience of the Financial Services industry, ideally in the areas of Retail regulated products and services to mass market and high net worth customers and asset management

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Irish Qualified Financial Advisor QFA designation or the Accredited Product Advisor APA designation, or studding towards these and understanding of the digital landscape
• Excellent market exposure and multi-disciplined private banking expertise
• Business development and cold calling skills and ability provide world class financial solutions
• Being a highly self-motivated, independent self-starter who needs the minimum of supervision

Where will you be working?
You will be based in our new flagship office, One Molesworth Street, which is in the heart of Dublin city Centre. We are currently expanding which drives a culture of change and hard work ethic, nonetheless the company maintains an open, friendly atmosphere. This is enhanced through our unique on boarding programs and several committees which all employees are eligible to join.

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