Join us as an Associate Director in Funds Coverage
- We’re looking for someone to develop relationships with funds sponsors and key stakeholders to support business growth within a Funds banking team
- As you manage and build relationships with your clients, we’ll look to you to maintain a portfolio of sponsor focused clients including responsibility for origination and credit oversight
- This is an opportunity to work towards an externally recognised qualification, allowing you to be successful in your role and advance your career
What you'll do
We’re looking for someone to proactively enhance customer satisfaction and advocacy by providing them with products and services that best serve their needs. You’ll also prepare well researched and comprehensive briefs and pitch books for customers and prospect meetings. You’ll use a range of contact and strategy planning tools to identify and meet customer needs, while all the time making sure you’re delivering high quality customer interactions and experiences.
You’ll also be:
- Acting as a visible, positive presence in other parts of the business and the external market
- Supporting the Team Lead in all aspects of commercial strategy and internal stakeholder management and providing leadership, support and guidance to other members of the team
- Maintaining a portfolio of sponsor client relationships and leading commercial thinking, while positioning RBS International (RBSI) as first point of call for defined capabilities in line with RBSI strategy and risk appetite
- Maintaining the credit quality of your portfolio to a high standard in conjunction with senior colleagues
- Developing and maintaining a strong network of partnerships across all relevant internal stakeholders to deliver NatWest Group capabilities to chosen customers
The skills you'll need
In this role, you’ll need strong relationship management, origination, and commercial skills, together with the ability to understand customers’ strategies and identify opportunities to support their ambitions. You will be confident coordinating colleagues and specialists across the bank to deliver the right solutions and a high-quality customer experience. You will also have a good awareness of financing and risk management trends and be comfortable working with product, credit and risk partners to develop appropriate customer solutions.
We’ll also need you to have:
- A strong market awareness and an appreciation of the economic and financial outlook
- A strong knowledge of and credibility with the chosen sponsor segments of the UK and Western Europe market
- A track record of delivering high quality transactions and building outstanding customer and professional relationships, ideally in a corporate environment
- Good strategic capability and origination experience
- An ability to undertake detailed risk analysis and complex debt structuring
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
13/10/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Strong relationship management skills
- Origination and commercial experience
- Ability to understand customer strategies and identify business opportunities
- Ability to coordinate colleagues and specialists across the bank
- Awareness of financing and risk management trends
- Ability to work with product, credit, and risk partners
- Strong market awareness and understanding of the economic and financial outlook
- Knowledge of and credibility with UK and Western European sponsor segments
- Track record of delivering high-quality transactions
- Track record of building strong customer and professional relationships
- Corporate environment experience
- Strategic capability and origination experience
- Ability to undertake detailed risk analysis
- Ability to perform complex debt structuring
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
