Associate Director, Transaction Banking

See yourself in our team :

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Institutional Client Coverage team, based in Singapore, in this newly created Associate Director role deepening and expanding our correspondent banking relationships across Asia.

Your Impact and Contribution

This position has responsibility for ongoing development and execution of strategic sales plans to promote CBA’s correspondent banking services to financial institutions across Asia. The role reports to the Executive Director, Institutional Client Coverage, based in Sydney, who is responsible for business development with Global Banks and offshore public sector clients in home market corridors.

As an Associate Director in Transaction Banking and Sales (TBS) for Bank customers, the role requires a blend of relationship management, strategic planning skills, ruthless prioritisation and commercial acumen to deliver value-added solutions and drive long-term client satisfaction with correspondent bank customers across CBA’s international network.

You will grow correspondent banking volumes each year in line with team objectives and manage economic returns while always employing sound risk and financial crime compliance management disciplines. You will work closely with your teammates in New York, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Auckland to provide seamless cross-border connectivity across CBA’s network and drive service excellence with the world’s largest banks. This includes managing and facilitating the sales effort for significant cross-border deals to the network and ancillary business opportunities with global and regional bank clients. Your performance targets will be a blend of financial results, Asia bank coverage team feedback, calling efforts and resultant client outcomes.

Together with the global banks team you will identify customer pain-points, understand our customers’ aspirations and importantly how that intersects with CBA’s correspondent banking capabilities and value proposition. You will identify, pitch and close new to bank opportunities through your understanding of customers in your region and ability to interact as a key deal team member. You will also act as representative for the bank during Industry events and channel back any substantial trends, news, insights that enables CBA to remain at the forefront of correspondent banking developments.

We’re interested in hearing from people who have :

We are a customer-obsessed coverage team with a strong growth agenda and are looking for a passionate, insightful banker with an appetite for industry content development and thought leadership.

This hands-on role requires a highly motivated self-starter with proven experience working with global and Asia-based regional bank customers. As such, we require a highly skilled candidate with :

• Tertiary qualifications in a business-related discipline.
• Correspondent banking customer coverage, portfolio management and product sales experience
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation, communication and collaborative skills
• Curiosity and desire to drive change and deliver improvement across the business leveraging in-depth payments landscape understanding
• An understanding of risk management, particularly financial crime, credit and liquidity risks.
• Offshore banks experience, particularly ‘catch and throw’ relationship management will be highly regarded.

This opportunity will give you exposure to both clients and a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of the business while being part of a team that is scaling up quickly with focused, dedicated, and passionate efforts aligned around a shared vision to create the very best experience for our customers.

As the successful applicant you'll be rewarded with a structured career path within Institutional Banking and Markets business that offers a competitive market salary, annual performance incentives, and a flexible working environment.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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Advertising End Date : 09 / 09 / 2024