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Benjamin Toh Kok Wai

Benjamin Toh Kok Wai

Summary

Associate Director with 10 Years of Experience in retail banking starting from Mass Market up to High Networth Clientele. Adept at retail banking products and services and relationship building and management. Consultative sales techniques to meet client needs.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director, Relationship Manager

Standard Chartered Bank Singapore
03.2021 - Current
  • Managed portfolio of high net worth (HNW) individuals (Individual AUM >SGD1.5 Mil)
  • Communicated regularly with clients to understand needs, evaluate current product use and cross-sell new products.
  • Used effective sales strategies to convince clients to accept proposals.
  • Built and maintained relationships with new and existing clients while providing high level of expertise.
  • Assisted customers with needs such as opening accounts, depositing or transferring funds, updating account details and signing up for new services.
  • Planned portfolio solutions after carefully analyzing clients' financial health and future requirements.
  • Conducted Sales and Execution for clients in the following products:

1) Cash Equities, Fixed Income , Foreign Exchange

2) Structured Investment Notes - Various Issuers and

Underlying investments such as Equities,

Derivatives, Credit, Rates and Currency

3) Fixed Income

4) Mutual Funds ( Financed or Leveraging available)

5) Life Insurance

Associate Director, Client Advisor

OCBC Bank Singapore, OCBC Premier Private Client
10.2018 - 03.2021
  • Onboarding of High networth individuals (HNWIs) and establishing their status as Accredited Investors (AI) though Internal Bank leads/ Upgrades, Networking events and Private dinners to obtain referrals
  • Working with Desk Head and support team to provide our clients with services that range from asset management and basic concierge type services
  • We achieve this by a mix of retail banking products together with more specialised products for AI clients with the assistance of senior support advisors and research and resources shared by our private banking arm
  • Communicated regularly with clients to build relationships and cross sell products and services
  • Conducted Sales and Execution for clients in the following products:

1) Cash Equities, Fixed Income , Foreign Exchange

2) Structured Investment Notes - Various Issuers and underlying investments such as Equities,Derivatives, Credit, Rates and Currency

3) Fixed Income

4) Mutual Funds ( Financed or Leveraging available)

5) Life Insurance

Assistant Vice President, Premier Relationship Manager

HSBC Bank Singapore
11.2013 - 10.2018
  • Basic banking transactions for Premier banking clients of HSBC
  • Manage a portfolio of Premier Banking Clients (Mid Tier) (AUM >SGD500k)
  • Building upon an inherited portfolio, bringing in new clients and building new relationships as well as maintaining old ones
  • New challenges include having to work in a more mobile role due to the nature of Premier clients, building up relationships take place over more mobile means such as tele-consulting, emails etc
  • Bringing in and keeping and growing total Net New Money while working with a team of specialists to assist with meeting the needs of the clients
  • Working under HSBC’s GWIP incentive framework where factors such as Client Experience, Client engagement, Client Satisfaction along with Financial and non-Financial Outcomes help train the RM to have more business minded approach to his work
  • Products include Unit Trusts, Spot FX, DCP, Insurance, Universal Life, Bonds, Structured Products
  • Achievements: Q1 2018 Rising Star Award. Awarded for excellence in performance across all areas including Financial and Non Financial outcomes, Client experience scores and Values and Behaviours

Personal Financial Consultant

Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, OCBC Bank
07.2012 - 07.2013
  • Assist customers with banking transactions
  • Build a portfolio of clients from scratch via walk in tagging, lead sourcing, marketing calls and referrals
  • Maintain relationship with clients and provide follow up service
  • Working with fund houses like Aberdeen, Schroders, Franklin Templeton etc to distribute and sell collective investment schemes like unit trusts to retail banking consumers based on their financial needs and to provide timely follow up monitoring and trade execution for these investments
  • Provide financial protection and help customers to achieve their financial goals with an array of insurance protection plans and endowment recommended on a needs basis
  • Other requirements will be to assist customers with the underwriting process and to ensure all objectives and needs are documented and archived as per MAS regulations

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Economics and Finance, Financial Services

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Singapore
08.2012

Diploma - Financial Services

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Singapore
12.2010

Diploma - Civil and Structural Engineering

Singapore Polytechnic
Singapore
06.2006

Queensway Secondary School
Singapore
12.2002

St Anthony’s Primary School
Singapore
12.1998

Skills

  • CMFAS: M1A, M5, M6A, M8, M8A, M9, M9A, HI (Exempted from M1 and M6)
  • CACS 1, CACS 2
  • Sales and Execution
  • Client Relationship Building & Management
  • Networking
  • Consultative Selling Techniques
  • Customer Portfolio Management

References

  • Angela Tan, Senior Team Manager, SCB Singapore

+65 91865467

Angela.Tan@Sc.com

  • May Ng, Vice President , OCBC Singapore

+65 90286005

NgYNMay@Ocbc.com

Timeline

Associate Director, Relationship Manager

Standard Chartered Bank Singapore
03.2021 - Current

Associate Director, Client Advisor

OCBC Bank Singapore, OCBC Premier Private Client
10.2018 - 03.2021

Assistant Vice President, Premier Relationship Manager

HSBC Bank Singapore
11.2013 - 10.2018

Personal Financial Consultant

Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, OCBC Bank
07.2012 - 07.2013

Bachelor’s Degree - Economics and Finance, Financial Services

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Diploma - Financial Services

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Diploma - Civil and Structural Engineering

Singapore Polytechnic

Queensway Secondary School

St Anthony’s Primary School
Benjamin Toh Kok Wai