Financial Planner

Salary dependent on overall experience and qualifications.

**Key Job Requirement**:
To competently provide regulated financial advice to clients

**Responsibilities**:

- Meeting clients to understand their future investment plans and documenting them accordingly
- Obtaining detailed reports and information from clients to determine income, expenses, risk tolerance, capacity for loss, existing plans, personal circumstances, tax status and their financial objectives
- Discussing the investment opportunities and risks related to the particular investment with clients
- Recommending strategies that the clients can use in achieving their financial goals and objectives
- Ensuring that recommendations and associated advice is compliant, well researched, comprehensive, and well documented
- Taking responsibility for client documentation and ensuring it is complete and compliant
- Maintaining the expected standards of service to clients and partners; including reviews of existing client files and conducting review meetings as appropriate to track changes in financial status and economic changes to indicate any necessity of making a change to their existing holdings
- Achieving agreed target levels of fee income and meeting the standards set by the firm
- Ensuring Directors, team members and introducers are kept up to date and informed of relevant financial services issues
- Developing professional connections (internal and external) to produce continuing quality client introductions
- Carrying out other general duties, as requested from time to time by Senior Management and the Board of Directors, commensurate with skills, experience and status

**Skills and Knowledge**
- Must possess excellent communication, interpersonal, presentational and relationship building skills, with the ability to raise appropriate questions to clients
- Being able to actively listen and explain complex concepts in a manner likely to be understood by a client
- Should be enthusiastic and willing to assist clients, Directors and team members
- Profound knowledge of the financial services market, rules and regulations, products, associated technical and compliance issues
- Understand and demonstrate adherence to regulatory requirements and obligations
- IT literate, including the full Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent telephone and communication manner essential
- Clean driving licence
- Good organisational, administrative and time management skills essential
- Self-discipline, motivation and initiative with ability to work alone and unsupervised, and within a team environment when appropriate
- Results driven and service orientated
- Flexible attitude to work, prepared to travel, evening appointments etc.
- Must be qualified to Diploma level 4 or higher and committed to further professional advancement via examination
- Must have a current and valid Statement of Professional Standing

**Reporting To**:

- Office Manager and Board of Directors

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

**Salary**: From £40,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company car
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Grantham

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