Credit and Insurance Advisor Ostend region (Expert)
What will you do?
- Achieve the predefined objectives of the assigned office(s) by offering and selling the banking and insurance products, solutions, and services of the Banking Partner(s).
- Manage and further develop the client portfolio.
- Intervene in more complex cases and support less experienced colleagues to help them achieve their assigned objectives.
- Act as person responsible for distribution for both credit intermediation and insurance distribution in order to comply with FSMA requirements.
1. Offering and selling banking and insurance products and services :
- Manage the office client portfolio (CRM, Bankstation, commercial image, etc.), contact clients and schedule appointments
- Execute and follow up on sales actions based on commercial campaigns (telephone follow-ups, lead follow-ups, etc.)
- Acquire new clients by analysing, discussing, and initiating leads from commercial staff / office managers
- Contribute to the action plan with the Bank Manager Retail based on the analysis of sales results and figures (individual and group results)
Conduct sales interviews:
- Identify financial needs
- Promote, advise, and close sales of banking and insurance products in compliance with IDD, MiFID, FSMA, and compliance rules
- Detect opportunities for additional products and generate leads for/from the office manager
- Perform operations related to banking and insurance products and services and correctly use the available supporting tools
2. Achieving commercial objectives (in collaboration with the Bank Manager Retail) :
- Be responsible for achieving own sales targets and co-responsible for the targets of the region
- Analyse and report sales activities and results to the Bank Manager Retail
- Discuss sales activities and results and initiate corrective actions based on insights gained
- Participate in commercial meetings and banking trainings
- Report outcomes of client meetings to the commercial staff / office managers who provided the leads
- Organise meetings with office managers to exchange information and optimise portfolio management
- Contribute to gathering and sharing client, market, and competitor information
- Train office managers on specific products while gathering operational information
- Act as operational liaison officer between the retail network and the banking management structure
3. Development :
- Stay informed about new banking and insurance products of the Banking Partner(s) and related procedures
- Continuously develop personal skills
- Share best practices with colleagues
- Support and guide (new) colleagues
- Maintain good collaboration with office managers and commercial staff
- Provide feedback and solutions to optimise banking sales processes
4. Compliance with legal and internal regulations :
Comply with all legal obligations, internal codes of conduct, procedures, and rules applicable to banking, insurance, and credit intermediation, with specific attention to:
- IDD and MiFID regulations in the advisory and sales of investment products (consumer protection)
- Anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing legislation
- Management of conflicts of interest
Ensure:
- Supervision of (senior) credit and insurance advisors to comply with FSMA requirements regarding the distribution of banking products and services
- Compliance with current regulations on credit intermediation and insurance distribution
- Follow-up of operational risk controls and implementation of corrective measures if needed
- Coaching and advising colleagues (senior) credit and insurance advisors in credit intermediation and insurance distribution
- Acting as SPOC for assigned colleagues
- Ensuring proper cascade of relevant information to assigned colleagues
- Coaching other (senior) credit & insurance advisors
Who are you?
- Strong knowledge of sales techniques related to banking and insurance products and services of the Banking Partner(s).
- Strong knowledge of the financial market and of branch procedures related to the sale of banking and insurance products.
- Basic understanding of the functioning and organization of the Retail network.
- In possession of the required certifications, particularly for credit intermediation (consumer credit and mortgage loans) and insurance distribution (Life and Non-Life), including registration as a person responsible for the distribution of insurance products, in order to meet the legal requirements to perform the role.
What do we offer?
Like a long-awaited parcel, we want to make you feel welcome and valued. Our offer includes a competitive monthly salary, that goes without saying. On top of that, you can count on:
- Meal vouchers of €8 per working day
- Hospitalization-, group- and disability insurances
- Work/life balance, thanks to flexible working hour
- 20 days of statutory leave and 7 additional extralegal days off
- An end-of-year and performance-based bonus and double holiday pay
- Many benefits from more than 100 bpost-partners
