Private Banker

Join us as a Private Banker – Turkish Market Coverage. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of the International Private Banking team, where you’ll work with ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) clients from Turkiye and Turkish diaspora. In this role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor, delivering bespoke banking, lending, and wealth structuring solutions, while offering access to world-class investment products across all asset classes. You will help servicing client relationships catering to the source of wealth needs of the clients, leveraging the investment banking and corporate banking capabilities.

You will play a key role in building and nurturing long-term relationships with clients, taking the time to understand their unique financial goals, values, and aspirations. By crafting tailored strategies, you’ll help clients preserve and grow their wealth in a way that reflects their needs. Your deep understanding of the Turkish market will be essential in providing culturally attuned advice and ensuring consistently remarkable service.

Collaboration is central to this role. You’ll work closely with internal specialists across investment, credit, and wealth planning, as well as external partners (investment bank and corporate bank), to deliver holistic solutions. You’ll also be responsible for overseeing risk within client portfolios and contributing to the continued growth of our presence in the region.

This role offers a meaningful career path within one of the fastest-growing areas of the bank and you will be a critical member of the build out of this strategic client segment.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment where everyone can thrive. As the team continues to grow, you’ll have access to opportunities for professional development and increased responsibility. Whether you're looking to deepen your knowledge or take the next step in your career, this is a place where your contributions will be valued and your growth supported.

To be successful as a Private Banker, you should have experience with:

• Building relationships with private clients and their families, understanding their financial priorities and long-term goals.
• Holding an RDR Level 4 qualification is essential (level 6 is desired).
• Deep understanding of the Turkish market.
• Fluency in Turkish is essential.
• Established network within Turkish Market.
• Working within the financial services sector—ideally with exposure to both regulated retail products and asset management for high-net-worth clients.
• Advising clients on a broad mix of wealth management strategies tailored to their specific needs.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Familiarity with digital tools and how they’re shaping the future of banking.
• A well-rounded understanding of private banking, with experience across different service areas and client needs.
• The ability to grow a client base through outreach, networking, and building new relationships from the ground up.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in London.

This role is deemed as a Certified role under the PRA & UK Financial Conduct Authority - Individual Accountabilities Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

Purpose of the role

To establish and nurture profitable partnerships with both corporate and individual clients. It's the bridge between the bank's offerings and clients' needs, ensuring mutual benefit and long-term success. 

Accountabilities

• Management of client relationships to identify the clients financial goals, challenges, and risk tolerance to support the analysis of data obtained from various sources, including the investment portfolio and cash flow, to identify trends, insights, areas for improvement and additional services to support client needs.
• Research and understanding of the client's industry trends, regulatory landscape, and competitive environment to inform strategic recommendations.
• Design of customised solutions that address the client's specific needs and objectives, incorporating a range of products and services from the bank's portfolio.
• Communication of the value proposition of proposed solutions, justification of recommendations, and negotiation of terms that are beneficial for both the client and the bank.
• Provision of guidance to clients to support their financial decisions, offering expert investment advice, risk management and wealth management strategies support, and updates on market trends to ensure a positive and continuous relationship.
• Assessment of financial, legal, and operational risks associated with client relationships, and implementation of measures to minimise potential losses.
• Documentation of all client interactions, transactions, and agreements to ensure transparency and auditability, and communicate findings effectively to support product development, service offerings, and the overall bank strategy.
• Monitoring of client satisfaction, revenue generated, and other relevant metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of relationship management efforts.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.