Associate FX Sales BCB Markets in London

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About this opportunity:

Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) Markets are welcoming all suitable applications for an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious, diverse and proven team of regulated sales colleagues covering c3000 RBB, Private Banking, SME and MC clients. You'll join a team that delivers sales, execution and facilitation of FX transactions for SME and Mid Corporate clients, supporting these clients in key stages of their business lifecycle and providing financial markets support.

This role will focus on growing our business in new areas and will give the successful candidate the opportunity to engage with New-To-Bank clients and New-To-Product clients to manage foreign currency and commodity risk. By doing this we'll look to deliver sustainable growth across our franchise.

The market and customer facing nature of this role requires a focused, results-orientated individual with a strong interest in financial markets. You should be excited by a customer facing role and either have or be willing, with our full support, to sit the exams required to be able to execute trades and converse with clients independently.

Our culture within the team is highly supportive and engaging whilst also putting emphasis on development. We encourage our teams to learn about other product areas such that we drive a comprehensive servicing strategy for our customers. We're keen advocates for all our product partners and ensure a strong referral process drives excellent behaviours as well as supports personal development and potential career opportunities.

We all share a passion for developing our digital proposition in a competitive marketplace and harnessing technology to improve the client and colleague experience. As such we're at the forefront of an investment program to build innovative digital solutions to complement the expertise on the desk. Along with the wider Business & Commercial Bank, we play a key role in Helping Britain Prosper and the successful candidate will be at the heart of this strategy.

What you’ll be doing:

• The successful candidate will convert New-To-Bank and New-To-Product opportunities into established FX trading clients.
• Digitise the client’s FX journey by positioning clients onto our ‘Connected’ platform.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including coverage teams and product specialists, to drive cross-business opportunities.
• You'll have the exciting opportunity to build out and deliver a business plan to ensure successful performance against financial growth ambitions.
• Price and structure simple and complex FX risk management solutions, executing these with our clients.
• Engage with clients on our Sales Process, managing documentation and our clients' understanding of the products we can offer them to manage their financial risks.
• Build a network with coverage colleagues and leverage these relationships to ensure performance against our business plan.

What You’ll Need:

• A passion for financial markets and the ability to demystify these for customers, while responding to economic and political events in real time.
• To be articulate, driven and tenacious with a keen interest in financial markets and geo-politics. Bringing energy and perseverance into work every day, have a curious mindset and be able to connect with our clients by tailoring their approach to each individual client.
• Ability to identify innovative solutions and present these to multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Strong organizational, communication and presentation skills.
• A problem solver who is able to handle a range of tasks and priorities.

About Working For Us:

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role. We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing ‘significant harm’ to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting, and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checks.

As a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA’s Financial Services Register.

This role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC 27.8.18R as defined in the FCA Handbook.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.