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We are looking for a suitably experienced and qualified individual to join the Private Client Team, based in our Okehampton office.
Main Purpose of the Role:
- To provide a comprehensive financial planning and advice service to new and existing clients of the company, with particular reference to pensions, protection and tax planning.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage and attend client meetings, both on and off site, advise clients on all aspects of pensions, long term planning, protection and tax management.
- Use AI and IO to enter to create file notes and collate relevant documentation.
- Update all relevant meeting information onto systems for record keeping and the report writing process.
- Collate the relevant and necessary information about the client’s past and present financial arrangements to enable a full financial needs analysis to be carried out.
- Collate the relevant information to be able to assess the client’s attitude to risk including their willingness and ability to accept risk within Courtiers’ Know Your Client procedures.
- To be able to take a theoretical approach to the assessment of the relative merits of financial planning and investment options using appropriate analytical systems and relevant data.
- To ensure that all relevant information is recorded on client files.
Financial Advice:
- Provide advice that is suitable and understandable to the client.
- To obtain relevant and necessary information about the client’s past and present financial arrangements to enable a full financial needs analysis to be carried out.
- To assess the client’s attitude to risk including their willingness and ability to accept risk within Courtiers’ Know Your Client procedures.
- To assess the relative merits of financial planning and investment options using appropriate analytical systems and relevant data.
- To ensure that all relevant information is recorded on client files.
Skills and Knowledge Requirements:
- Must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience of giving advice to clients within the Financial Services Industry.
- Must have obtained a Diploma and working towards Chartered status with the CII or equivalent governing bodies.
- Must have an in date SPS in issue from CII or equivalent governing bodies.
- Willingness to undertake study.
- Ability to manage own workload and work within a small team.
- Knowledge of business processes, standards, policies, and procedures.
- Exceptional communication skills at all levels.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and ideally Intelligent Office, Papercloud and Pulse dealing systems.
- Excellent report writing skills.
- Excellent knowledge of financial products.
- Knowledge of legal regulatory and industry requirements.
