Job Description
Role: Relationship Manager – Trust
Reports to: Managing Director
Direct reports: None
Signatory Level: B
Job Level: 4
Job Purpose:
Manage a portfolio of clients. Complete all assigned tasks and processes, operating within established controls, guidelines and procedures.
Key Responsibilities:
- Attend meetings with clients and their advisors including bankers, lawyers, accountants, agents or consultants and liaise on client matters.
- Ensure clients’ needs are met and their portfolios are managed effectively.
- Undertake client visits as determined by the service level agreements and risk review profiles.
- Deliver client acquisition through on-boarding, risk rating, CDD collection and sign off.
- Actively support business development efforts through sales targets and delivery of material and new business leads.
- Review clients on a regular basis in line with the business risk profile process.
- Maximise client profitability and manage team in a way that encourages client retention and growth.
- Ensure policies and procedures are complied with and legal and regulatory obligations are met.
- Provide technical guidance and support to the administration team.
- Meet deadlines appropriate for assigned portfolio, ensuring adherence with regulatory requirements.
- Ensure client database is always current by ensuring it is updated as and when events occur.
- Other ad-hoc tasks as and when required.
- Ensure that timesheets are completed in a timely manner, with quality information provided, on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s):
- Time recorded electronically on a daily basis.
- Utilization rate of 75%.
- Meeting of filing deadlines.
- Ensuring annual review and accounting deadlines are met.
- Achievement of annual CPD target of 35 hours.
- Client satisfaction.
Skills and Experience:
- Significant experience of the trust industry.
- A relevant professional qualification.
- Adaptable – Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible, versatile in a changing work environment while maintaining effectiveness and efficiency.
- Ethical – Understand ethical behaviour and business practices and ensure that own behaviour and the behaviour of others is consistent with these standards.
- Build relationships – Establish and maintain positive working relationships with others, both internally and externally, to achieve business objectives.
- Communication – Speak, listen and correspond in a clear, thorough and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
- Client focused – Anticipate, understand and respond to the needs of internal and external clients to make or exceed their expectations.
- Leadership – Positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the Company.
Behaviours and Competencies
Operational Excellence:
- Demonstrates the ability to make decisions based on insight and knowledge .
- Accountable for ensuring high standards of delivery to clients.
- Actively engages with customer to understand needs and will place a high priority on client service and satisfaction.
- Prioritises client issues and addresses them accordingly.
- Will keep up to date with business trends/ changes in law that will impact their role.
Client Excellence:
- Proactive in identifying opportunities and seeking solutions.
- Manages expectations so clients always feel valued.
- Takes responsibility for delivering superior products and services.
- Implements improvements to client service.
Leadership and Resource Management:
- Plans, coordinates and manages internal and external resources to deliver results .in a timely, accurate and professional manner.
- Will share knowledge to ensure team targets are met.
- Informally manages expectations of more senior colleagues regularly.
- Adaptable – Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible, versatile in a changing work environment while maintaining effectiveness and efficiency.
- Ethical – Understand ethical behaviour and business practices and ensure that own behaviour and the behaviour of others is consistent with these standards.
- Build relationships – Establish and maintain positive working relationships with others, both internally and externally, to achieve business objectives.
- Communication – Speak, listen and correspond in a clear, thorough and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
- Creativity/Innovation – Develop new and unique ways to improve operations of the Company and to create new opportunities.
- Client focused – Anticipate, understand and respond to the needs of internal and external clients to make or exceed their expectations.
- Leadership – Positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the Company.
- Planning – Determine strategies to move the Company forward, set goals, create and implement actions plans and evaluate the results.
Commercial Awareness:
- Understands relevant local regulatory requirements
Interpersonal Skills:
- Manages internal and external stakeholders' expectations with regards to delivery, escalating concerns as appropriate.
- Is able to deal with conflict in a controlled manner and can clearly communicate effective solutions.
- Builds credibility across all stakeholder groups and is able to engage with individuals across all areas of an organization on areas of specialism.
Compliance:
- Act in a professional manner and produce accurate and timely work
- Acts with the highest level of integrity at all times and in the best interests of Aspida.
- Will be clear, open and transparent in communications with colleagues and customers.
- Promptly report any issues (or possible issues) you identify to your manager (or an appropriate member of the senior management team) for consideration and resolution.
- Never make any statement that is misleading, false or deceptive.
I understand, acknowledge and accepted the details contained within.
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