Bank Client Relationship Manager (all genders)

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Erste Group was founded in 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank and today it is one of the largest banking groups in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). As an attractive employer, Erste Group offers interesting career opportunities in an international environment.

Financial Institutions unit is part of Group Markets Financial Institutions within the Group Markets division. The unit is responsible for the client coverage of domestic and international financial institutions, payment institutions and the active sales of commercial products like payments & cash management, inter-bank trade finance & guarantees, custody, loans and accounts to this client group. In addition we raise cross-selling opportunities for the Markets and Corporate business and co-ordinate the overall client relationships by setting the main business parameters (income and cost budgets, governance, product and sales strategy) towards this client group. As part of the Relationship Management Team we have overall group-wide responsibility for the business with this client group (across all products), client profitability and internal credit limit management (application, allocation within EG, optimisation), client contacts and entry point function into EG, first line of defense responsibility as well escalation and x-selling tasks.  
 

Your Tasks

• Overall group-wide responsibility for the business with your Financial Institution clients (across all products)
• Client profitability and internal credit limit management (application, allocation within EG, optimisation)
• First line of defense responsibility as well as KYC support, escalation and direct sales (trade finance/guarantees, lending) and x-selling tasks 
• Contribution to project work related to the Financial Institutions client segment

Your Background

• Ideally university degree or equivalent in business administration or economics or long term business experience with this customer group
• 4-5 years experience in international banking - FI, Transaction Banking (Cash&Trade) or Large Corporates area
• Strong knowledge in interbank products including payments/cash management, trade finance, custody and lending
• Willingness to travel and flexibility in working hours including over-time
• KDB/Cockpit/ZKI, CRM, PAM Reporting, and other standard apps
• Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills
• Fluent in German and English, CEE and/or other languages are of advantage

Our Offer

• Interesting and challenging task within an international environment with a broad product and market range
• Co-operation with various departments within Erste Group e.g. Trading, Capital Markets, Group Transaction Banking, Back Office and, Mid Office, Erste Digital
• Discover and enjoy the benefits of Erste Group
• The minimum wage for this full-time position in accordance with the collective agreement with complete fulfillment of the functional profile is EUR 48.323,-- gross per year. But this is just a formality - we would be happy to talk about your actual salary in person! 
• We offer our employees the opportunity to divide their hours between working from home and at the office.
• We consider the diversity of our employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.