Financial Advisor

**Financial Advisor**:

- Providing holistic financial planning advice to existing NFU Mutual customers
- Partnering with local Agencies of NFU Mutual and developing relationships with their customers
- Field based position with frequent travel across Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex

**About the role**:
NFU Mutual is growing, and as a Financial Advisor you’ll be at the heart of this growth, providing advice for life insurance, pensions, investments, wealth management and inheritance tax to a broad range of customers.

Why is this important to you? Well, as a Financial Advisor, you’ll work closely with Agencies in the NFU Mutual Agency Network in the Kent, Surrey and East Sussex regions. Each agency has an average of 2,500 customers and agency staff who’ll work to deliver a full diary just for you. Your drive, vision and personal ambition are the only limit to your future earning potential.

You’ll develop strong customer relationships from warm leads, with a range of customers from small investors to high net worth individuals. You’ll also continue our tradition of providing excellent personal service by getting to know each customers’ circumstances and helping to protect them, their families and businesses.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our customers, so it’s vital we always do the right thing for them. That’s why we’re proud of our impressive 95% policy renewal rate and high customer satisfaction scores. These results show how much our customers across the UK appreciate our approach.

**About you**:
We’re looking for people like you. People dedicated to delivering the best financial outcomes for clients. You’re competitive, someone who loves to exceed expectations, both ours and our customers. You’re driven to be the best at what you do.

An expert at building trusting relationships, you’ll easily work with a panel of NFU Mutual Agents to offer advice on a range of NFU Mutual products across Life, Pensions and Investments to both new and existing customers.
- Fully FPC (or equivalent) qualified plus full CAS, full QCA Level 4 qualification (e.g. CII Diploma in Financial Planning)
- Experience of delivering regulated financial advice to UK customers, face to face
- Strong knowledge and understanding of the UK financial services regulatory and compliance framework.
- Good knowledge of end-to-end sales processes, preferably working with introducers.
- Knowledge of developments in the UK financial services industry.

This is a homeworking role requiring multi-site travel up to 4 days per week to Agents of NFU Mutual, customers and NFU Mutual offices.

**Certification**:
**Certified Function**
**Function Requiring Qualification**:

- A person carrying out a role that requires a regulatory qualification as defined within the FCA Training & Competence (T&C) Sourcebook._

**Client Dealing, previously CF30**:

- A person who performs the client-dealing certification function which involves any of the following; advising on investments and performing other functions related to this such as dealing and arranging._
- At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.-
**Benefits and Rewards**:
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

- Company car scheme
- Uncapped commission scheme
- Annual bonus (up to 5% of salary)
- Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme*
- A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
- Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
- Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
- Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
- Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
- Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
- Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
- Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
- Plus any additional annual leave accrued in line with our Service Loyalty Policy

**Further Information**:
The recruiter for this vacancy is Jeremy Warner

The hiring manager is Paul O'Grady

**Brighton**:
We have over 300 local Agency offices across the UK who look after existing customers and attract new ones.

Visit the Our local Agency Network office

**Vacancy managed by**:
Jeremy Warner