Paraplanner - Wolverhampton

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly experienced Paraplanner within a Wealth Management Practice providing bespoke face to face financial advice to individuals and businesses throughout the UK. Our client is an appointed representative of St. James’s Place Wealth Management.

Responsibilities:

·       Providing high quality support to the advisor team, responding to advisor queries in a timely manner 

·       Inputting of CFR documentation onto salesforce

·       Research and analyse financial products to meet client requirements and objectives, demonstrating an understanding of the desired outcome

·       Producing accurate IHT calculations and cash flow models

·       Preparing and producing suitability letters, reports, and illustrations

·       Ensuring the end-to-end compliance process is followed

·       Ensuring all cases written adhere to the Advice Guidance framework, with a view to all cases passing as suitable first time

·       Ensuring advisor and Paraplanning Lead are updated throughout the complete process, liaising with the Paraplanning Lead to ensure the client is always kept up to date

·       Ensure that any business conducted is done in a responsible and compliant manner, meeting all legislative, FCA and SJP requirements, both internally and externally 

·       Processing new business to a high standard and in line with SJP

·       Liaising with the wider administration team to ensure business processing is completed to regulatory standards

·       Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of, and keep up to date with, all relevant products advised on by the practice

·       Ensuring all advice sets are logged appropriately on all relevant systems

·       Advising the Paraplanning Lead of any challenges or delays in the completion of work

·       Overseeing complex cases in conjunction with the Private Client Manager and Operations Director, where appropriate

·       Managing own learning and development, attending relevant training sessions where needed

·       Provide cover for other team members upon request as per the business need

·       To uphold the standards of the client service charter 

·       Keep up to date with comms and regulatory changes (attending webinars etc..)

·       Contribution at Paraplanning team meetings

Essential skills required:

·       The ability to produce comprehensive, accurate and clear Suitability Reports using a combination of standard paragraphs and free text;
·       Experience in writing suitability letters on a wide variety of topics, Pensions, Investments, Mortgages, Protection.
·       Experience of preparing illustrations for numerous products, such as Protection.
·       Experience of back office administration that relates to the paraplanning role such as updating a client’s CFR, making sure that client files are audited and all regulatory and company requirements are met at the end of a case
·       Undertake continuous professional development to meet regulatory requirements, both internally and externally
·       Liaise with Business Assurance (SJP’s internal compliance body) and ensure cases are graded as suitable first time on all pre and post approval checks
·       Excellent grammar, spelling and punctuation skills;
·       Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
·       A high standard of personal organisational skills;
·       Experience of working to targeted service standards and procedures;
·       A proven track record in delivering first-class client service;
·       A good working knowledge of regulatory requirements;
·       Ambitious and goal-orientated;
·       Evidence of continual learning and development of skills and knowledge;
·       An adaptable and flexible approach to work within a changing environment;
·       Experience of working unsupervised with a high level of self-motivation;
·       Good IT skills covering MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Excel and back office system
 
 

If this is a position that is of interest to you, then please forward your CV to josie@artemisrecruitment.co.uk 

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