Financial Planning Executive

The Company
We are an award-winning team of Independent Financial Advisers who provide a personal, independent and bespoke wealth management service to high net worth clients. We are an expanding business with offices in London, Leeds City Centre and Bath.

Are you looking for a rewarding career in financial services with an expanding, forward thinking company? Do you have a friendly and approachable manner and take pride in providing a professional, high quality and personal service to clients? If so, we are searching for enthusiastic and hardworking individuals to join our team.

The Details
As a Financial Planning Executive, you would be working as part of a productive, high performing team to provide support primarily to Sales Managers (SM) and Advisers in a Trainee Adviser capacity.

You should have experience of working in an IFA with exposure to client meetings (experience of cash flow is beneficial) and a good technical understanding, hold minimum Level 4 Diploma in Regulated Financial Advice (CII preferrable or willing to undertake the exams to convert) and have the long-term ambition and desire to become a Chartered Financial Adviser. Get ready to embark on a 6-12-month training and assessment period depending on qualifications, skills and speed of development.

We will help build and develop the skills you require to become competent as an Adviser in your own right, through initially undertaking a structured training plan during which you will be fully supported by a dedicated mentor, and also your peers. You will be allocated to a specific Commercial Management Team and Sales Manager.

Key Responsibilities
- Support business needs of TPO and understand the structure of the business;
- Identify ways to develop your knowledge of the Financial Services industry and keep up to date; e.g. attend industry seminars, workshops and briefings to continue building up knowledge of the theory and reinforce learning;
- Build strong and effective working relationships with other teams in the firm and third-party product providers;
- Achieve regulatory approval in accordance with FCA and TPO requirements, undertake and record appropriate Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities, and attain/maintain a Statement of Professional Standing;
- Complete our Financial Planning Executive Academy to enable you to gain the skills required of a TPO Adviser;
- Once approval granted, you will undertake regulated activities (e.g. giving advice/opinion) under direct supervision for a period of at least six months;
- Take on responsibility for meeting personal business targets on successful completion of the FPE Academy,
- Subject to minimum training period of 6 months from the date of regulatory approval, role holders are expected to pass formal assessment(s) to progress into an appropriate Adviser position, and work towards achieving Regulatory Competent Adviser Status (CAS).

Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Attained minimum of level 4 or equivalent qualification

Essential:

- Experience within Private Independent Wealth Management;
- Exposure to client meetings where you can demonstrate that you have actively engaged with the client in the meetings;
- Technical ability to understand the different types of advice offered in the TPO proposition
- As a planning led firm, exposure to cash flow would be beneficial (preferably Voyant)
- Ambitious and goal-orientated;
- An adaptable and flexible approach to work within a changing environment;
- Experience of working unsupervised with a high level of self-motivation;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
- A high standard of personal organisational and time management skills;
- Ability to take control and drive your own development and study time;
- The capability to explain complex information simply and clearly;
- Discretion and an understanding of the need for client confidentiality;
- Experience of working to targeted service standards and procedures;
- Good IT skills covering MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Excel and back office systems.Desirable:

- A full driving licence is useful, particularly if you are supporting independent financial advisers (IFAs) who may have to travel to visit clients at their own homes

**Benefits**:

- Share Scheme
- Company discretionary bonus scheme;
- Full time hours (35 per week) Monday to Friday 9.00am and 5.00pm - 1 hour for lunch;
- 24 holidays (increasing to 26), plus 2 additional days paid Christmas shut down period;
- Company Pension scheme;
- Private Healthcare*;
- Group Income Protection;
- Life Assurance;
- Eye Care Scheme;
- Wellbeing programme;
- Bike to Work Scheme;
- Full support with professional qualifications;
*after qualifying period

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Profit sharin