Job Summary :

The incumbent will be responsible for proactively managing the Bank’s relationship with Commercial Banking customers to assist in meeting the stated budget targets for the Commercial Banking Sector in terms of revenue, profit, profitability and volumes in compliance with established QNB credit policies, procedures, standards and regulatory requirements. The incumbent will ensure that assigned clients’ needs are met on a priority basis in compliance with prevailing best practices and will proactively coordinate efforts and cross sell products with other Bank divisions / departments / functions.

Main Responsibilities :

• Maintain and conduct activities in compliance with policies and procedures, regulations and prevailing best practices.

• Manage assigned credit clients on overall basis to ensure targets are met, corrective measures where necessary are implemented on timely basis and to systematically evaluate the quality and performance of the same.

• Support Sector Head in providing technical expertise and guidance to team members to ensure their credit proposals adequately address all relevant risk factors and meet minimum acceptable standards

• Perform sales activity in accordance with SVP Commercial Banking Sector directives and timely update the database of client contacts.

• Systematically visit client premises, conduct meetings and prepare / deliver presentations, as appropriate.

• Identify and timely report on all negative events and early signals on potential problematic accounts/relationships that are managed by the Commercial Banking function.

• Perform cross selling activities in coordination with other Corporate Banking functions, departments, QNB Capital, local, regional and international branches, representative offices, affiliates, Foreign Institutions, Treasury, Legal, Retail, and Head Office support functions in order to enhance QNB’s overall relationship with the Commercial Banking Sector customer base.  

• Supervise the roll-out of conventional corporate banking products targeted to Commercial Banking customers.

• Develop and maintain professional relationships with key managers of existing and potential customers to provide a broader range of communication, service consistency and response to clients needs.

• Submit periodic Management Information / Business Information reports to the SVP Commercial Banking Sector and to other executive management of the Group to appraise them about the Commercial Banking Sector function’s performance and the assigned portfolio of clients.

• Maintain the timely review of credit applications and documents within set turn around time, in coordination with Credit Risk.  During the annual review exercise, the incumbent is expected to identify changing circumstances to assess risk and mitigating actions.

• Review the spreading of the financial statements on assigned software while assessing the credit risk related to each client and identify mitigating actions/ controls.

• Prepare financial analysis for assigned clients to measure its performance and its capacity of repayment.

Education and Experience Requirements :

• University graduate (bachelor) with at least 10 years relevant experience in the banking industry, preferably with local / Gulf experience.

• Well-informed of the market competitive structure, industry practices and any regulations for the corporate banking customer segment.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills (including report writing) in English and Arabic.

• Excellent people relationship skills and awareness of risk management concept and practices.

• Understanding of the relevant laws, regulations and practices pertaining to Corporate Banking products.

• Strong knowledge in financial statements and ratios relevant to corporate banking in addition to introducing covenants in a relevant facility structure.

• In-depth understanding of underlying risks of each industry.

• Ability to structure a panel of banking products suitable to the banking needs of customers while emphasizing on cross selling.

• Strong understanding of cashflow and financial models.

• Personal integrity, self-motivation and self-management.

• Outstanding problem solving and decision making skills.

• Planning, organizing and analytical ability.

• Outstanding customer service orientation.

• Strong performance orientation.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with all levels of management.