Private Banking - Business Development Apprentice

BANK J SAFRA SARASIN (GIBRA LTAR) LTD

LONDON (W1J 5AU)

Closes in 29 days (Sunday 31 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 1 August 2025

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Summary

An incredibly rare opportunity to build a career with a renowned boutique private bank in the heart of Mayfair. Working directly with senior management, support meetings, events, and key projects while developing project, stakeholder, and presentation skills, getting a true insight into strategy, planning, client outreach, and investment products.

Wage

£25,000 a year

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Annual discretionary bonus opportunity

Training course
Associate project manager (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm (1 hour unpaid lunch) - Fully onsite in the Mayfair Office.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 1 October 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Key Responsibilities:

  • Administrative Support: Assist the Bank CEO and Head of Business Development with day-to-day tasks, meeting preparation, and project coordination
  • Strategic Planning: Contribute to the development of business plans, initiatives, and projects, working closely with the Head of Business Development
  • Client Engagement: Help facilitate client meetings, presentations, and events, building relationships with key stakeholders
  • Project Management: Assist with project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring timely and successful outcomes
  • Investment Product Development: Support the design, launch, and marketing of investment products, working with cross-functional teams
  • Communication: Help produce high-quality materials, including presentations, reports, and marketing collateral
  • Stakeholder Management: Develop relationships with internal stakeholders, including senior management, and external partners

Where you'll work

47 BERKELEY SQUARE
LONDON
W1J 5AU

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED

Training course

Associate project manager (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
  • Manage and engage with stakeholders.
  • Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
  • Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
  • Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
  • Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
  • Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
  • Monitor and analyse project budgets.
  • Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
  • Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
  • Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
  • Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
  • Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
  • Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
  • Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
  • Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
  • Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
  • Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
  • Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
  • Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
  • Work within the approved project budget.
  • Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
  • Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
  • Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
  • Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
  • Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
  • Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
  • Manage and engage with stakeholders.
  • Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
  • Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
  • Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
  • Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
  • Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
  • Monitor and analyse project budgets.
  • Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
  • Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
  • Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
  • Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
  • Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
  • Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
  • Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
  • Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
  • Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
  • Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
  • Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
  • Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
  • Work within the approved project budget.
  • Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
  • Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
  • Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
  • Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
  • Manages resources through the project lifecycle.

Training schedule

Level 4 Associate project manager apprenticeship standard

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 9 - 7)
  • Mathematics (grade 9 - 7)

A Level in:

Mathematics (grade A* or A)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Initiative

Other requirements

Passing pre-employment screenings including a DBS and credit check.

About this employer

Bank J Safra Sarasin is an international banking group committed to sustainability with a focus on continuity, solidity and long-term added value. We are a privately-owned Group with a heritage reaching back to 1841 and are fully committed to private banking and asset management, and to the long-term strategic objective of focusing on clients, solidity and stability

Company benefits

25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays AXA private health cover Medicash medical cash plan Death in service cover 5% employers pension contributions

After this apprenticeship

You may be offered a permanent role within the Bank, taking up a more senior business development or change mangement role or using specific expertise or knowledge developed during the apprenticeship to join another area of the Bank.

Long-term Career Aspirations:

With experience and further development, you may be able to progress into more senior roles, such as:

  • Change/Business Development Manager - With experience in project management, strategic thinking, and product design, you could move into a more senior role, driving transformation projects, launching investment products or business lines, directly working on developing and growing the organisation and the wider business strategy.
  • Financial Services Professional / Consultant - You may be able to transition into a another senior role within a financial institution or a Finance consultancy, leveraging your project and strategy experience as well as in depth industry and Banking knowledge.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BANK J SAFRA SARASIN (GIBRA LTAR) LTD

Emma Smith

emma.smith@jsafrasarasin.com

02039649045

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332394.

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Closes in 29 days (Sunday 31 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

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