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Standard Bank Group

Runs banking and financial services across Africa

High-Net-Worth Client Manager

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior, Expert
Bachelor's
Luanda, Angola
In Person
Finance & BankingWealth Management & Financial Advisory

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Management and Commerce is required.
  • Eight to ten years of experience with high-net-worth clients and personal and private banking is required.
  • Experience designing and implementing propositions for clients across multiple segments is required.
  • Experience in relationship management and digital propositions for high-net-worth clients, including taxation, trusts, investments, and business structuring, is required.
  • Experience leading, integrating, and implementing solutions through multidisciplinary teams is required.
  • Understanding of the digital environment, open banking, and platform integration in the segment is required.
  • Technical skills required include economic capital management, financial acumen, risk acceptance, risk awareness, risk management, risk reporting, and risk/reward thinking.
Responsibilities
  • Manage risks and comply with governance standards to support the ongoing sustainability of the segment in the country.
  • Meet the segment's financial and non-financial metrics, including customer turnover, profit growth, and return on investment, in line with PPB Clients requirements and in collaboration with country leadership, other segment leads, and Client Solutions.
  • Comply with applicable domain guidelines.
  • Conduct customer perception analyses to improve understanding of customer needs.
  • Provide SBG and third-party products and services to high-purchasing-power clients through a customer-centric platform.
  • Develop appropriate recovery and resolution plans to protect the segment from undesirable events.
  • Develop customer risk propensity within the framework defined and approved by PPB and the country in collaboration with Risk.
  • Drive and consolidate a consistent customer experience across all engagement platforms.
  • Promote multiproduct experiences tailored to customers' life stages and delivered through customer engagement platforms.
  • Facilitate integrated ways of working and collaboration across the value chain to meet customer needs.
  • Ensure alignment with People and Culture standards on employee-related matters.
  • Ensure satisfactory audits and prevent recurrence of unsatisfactory results, assessed in terms of operational losses.
  • Define and implement corrective actions in collaboration with country leads, other segment leads, and Client Solutions.
  • Follow parameters for key customer trade-off decisions, including risk appetite and pricing.
  • Identify current and potential employee competency requirements in consultation with People and Culture.
  • Implement and monitor risk management across the segment, including operational, credit, ecosystem, and partner risks.
  • Implement the customer value proposition in the country with approved customizations.
  • Inspire the team to achieve the Group's common purpose and foster a culture that supports its evolution into a customer-oriented platform organization.
  • Lead and execute the value proposition for affluent and private clients, related tools, and customer journeys in the country, adapting them as appropriate.
  • Maintain alignment with other segment leads to deliver the customer value proposition and reduce duplication between segments.

About the company

Standard Bank Group operates banking, insurance and investment businesses focused on Africa, serving individuals, families, businesses and institutional clients. Its services cover everyday accounts and payments, savings and lending, business finance, corporate transactions and investment banking. The group also manages insurance, asset management and wealth offerings that support clients through different financial needs and stages of life. Local banking operations connect with international centres and offshore hubs to support cross-border activity, trade and access to financial markets. Founded in 1862, the group is headquartered in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Johannesburg, South Africa

Founded

1862

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