Askari Bank Hiring “Sr. Relationship Manager – Corporate Banking” || June-2025
Latest Career Opportunity at Askari Bank.
Askari Bank has concentrated on growth through improving service quality, investment in technology & people and utilizing its extensive branch network including Conventional and Islamic banking.
Askari Bank hiring “Sr. Relationship Manager – Corporate Banking” at Islamabad.
Details are as follows:
Position Title: Sr. Relationship Manager – Corporate Banking
Location: Islamabad – ICT
Job Type: Full Time/Regular
Grade: AVP & below
Job Purpose / Summary:
This position is responsible for assisting Unit Head Corporate Banking in increasing the portfolio of Corporate unit through soliciting new business, ensuring excellent and growth-oriented relationships with current customers, and handling analysis, documentation of proposals, accounts and, transactions. Key accountabilities include managing relationships with large ticket corporate clients of the Bank and identification of potential sectors and worthy players of industries to market and ensure adequate portfolio diversification while considering sector stability, profitability and projected growth.
Job Specification/Requirements:
- Minimum 6 years’ experience in a Corporate Banking or credit environment.
- Bachelors/ preferably Master’s degree in Banking & Finance / Economics from a HEC recognized institute or any reputed foreign institution.
- Must be familiar with the bank’s Credit Policies & Procedures, Financial Analysis and Credit Appraisal
- Possess in depth knowledge of General Banking, Foreign Trade & Credit disciplines along with requisite product knowledge of various products being offered by the bank.
- Demonstrate the ability to match client and product knowledge to identify cross selling opportunities.
Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:
- Market corporate banking products by soliciting new business and meeting targets and create new opportunities and relationships by growing business volumes. Strengthen and deepen relationship with existing targeted clientele and develop new client relationships to grow business volumes. Contribute towards the business target assigned by marketing and coordinating products and services to all clients to maximize returns and solicit new large ticket transactions.
- Develop and maintain credible relationships with clients at appropriate levels through reliable, proactive service delivery and the skillful application of specialist knowledge. Ensure that clients are kept up to date with bank related changes influencing them e.g. movement in mark-up rates; promptly provide feedback on requests initiated by clients. Provide regular updates to Unit Head Corporate Banking on performance of accounts allocated.
- Ensure submission of complete, comprehensive and accurate credit proposals, spreadsheet and financial modeling, qualitative and quantitative financial analysis, and industry risk analysis in a timely fashion.
- Prepare renewal / rescheduling proposals as and when due for designated accounts in order to ensure timely sanction of credit facilities to clients. Process all customer requests arising from day-to-day operations.
- Actively ensure compliance with the bank regulation & procedures, anti-money laundering and other prudential regulations. Continuously work towards improving the portfolio’s overall risk profile; ensure approval & disbursement conditions and covenants are fulfilled as per agreements with clients.
- Proactively and continually research, analyze and collect information from a variety of reliable sources to anticipate risks for both clients and the bank. Ensure to periodically conduct the KYC reviews of accounts.
- Ensure strict compliance of key governance role & responsibilities specific to TBML framework. Ensure to conduct the tasks in accordance to the internal & external regulatory requirement. Ensure that no audit objections are raised pertaining to the job. Arrange for rectification, if any. Any other responsibilities or tasks falling within the purview of this position, which may be assigned by the superiors, from time to time