Specialist Wealth Advice Assessor

**The opportunity**:
We have multiple opportunities to join our Operations Services team as a Specialist Wealth Advice Assessor. You will be responsible for the pre and post-sale advice checking of Wealth Business, including specialist Investment and Occupational Pension business for The Openwork Partnership.

These roles are key for ensuring that the advice and Suitability Report complies with current regulation and The Openwork Partnership’s COB Suitable Advice framework. This will include providing feedback to advisers and suggesting improvements, where required.

**This is a hybrid role, based 2/3 days a week in our Swindon office.**

**What we offer**:
- Salary - up to £38,000 DOE- Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 10%- Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%-
- Critical illness cover-
- Income protection-
- Death in service-
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days-
- A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Checking of cases in accordance with current regulation and Openwork’s COB Suitable Advice framework, in an accurate, effective, and fair way
- Identify and champion improvements to team processes and procedures.
- Work in collaboration across the partnership ensuring that the financial advisers’ requirements are met, which allows them to provide suitable advice.
- Identify and develop strong relationships with key contacts across the partnership (both internally and externally) providing advice and technical guidance as required
- Regularly chase the adviser and/or providers where there are outstanding requirements.
- Ensure all work is completed compliantly and within agreed service level agreements.
- Responsible for pro-actively managing an individual pipeline of cases.
- Promotion of teamwork across Operations and the Network

**What will you need to succeed?**:

- Level 4 Diploma in Financial Planning (with completed R04 exams or equivalent).
- Good understanding of pension and investment products.
- Previous experience of proactively managing a pipeline.
- Previous experience of dealing with adviser and providers.
- Knowledge of Pensions & Investment products, including safeguarded Benefits, SIPPs, and Pension Crystallisation.
- Good understanding of Financial Conduct Authority requirements for pension and investment transfers.
- Awareness of Financial Conduct Authority, Treating Customers Fairy principles and general advice process.
- Familiar with The Openwork Partnership adviser and network and/or other networks.
- Strong IT skills, particularly with how to use MS Office, particular Word and Excel.
- Sound judgement skills, ensuring impartiality and consistency.
- Good problem solving, analytical and decision making
- Able to express ideas and opinions to influence others and confront issues.
- Ability to communicate, listen and negotiate effectively at a variety of levels using various mediums.
- Able to work well as an individual and part of a wider team.
- Time management, planning, prioritising and organisation skills.
- An attention to detail combined with high accuracy.
- Flexible in approach, can handle high work and associated pressures due to service level agreement delivery.

**Why us?**: We’re a dynamic, fast-paced and growing business with huge ambition. And we believe this is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We’re investing heavily in the development of our people, continuously striving to give them the platform to reach their full potential.

We’re also very proud of our culture, having placed in the Top 100 Best Companies to work for again in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.

On top of offering a modern workplace with bags of development opportunities, we also offer a highly attractive benefits package to reward you for your hard work. This includes a competitive base salary, annual bonus, enhanced pension, critical illness cover, income protection and a range of other flexible benefits.