Paraplanner

Location Southampton
Discipline: Financial services and insurance
Job type: Permanent
Salary: £45k (c)
Contact name: Liam McConnell

Contact email: liam@requireconsultancy.com
Job ref: REF: 8616
Published: 27 days ago
Expiry date: 20 Sep 2024 23:59

​We are recruiting on behalf of a privately owned financial planning and investment management firm, committed to providing high-quality services to private clients, trusts, and smaller institutions. Founded twenty years ago, the company has grown both organically and through select acquisitions. Initially focused on investment management, they have since prioritised financial planning, making it central to our client relationships.

Today, they manage and advise on over £3 billion in client assets, achieved through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. All in all, an exciting company to be part of.

We are recruiting an experienced, high calibre Paraplanner, who can demonstrate a background of providing high level technical paraplanning including the production of cash flow models and high quality suitability report.

The role will report to a paraplanning team leader, and the key areas of responsibility are as follows:

  • Analyse client information and existing investments/policies

  • Tax calculations

  • Construct appropriate solutions for clients and make recommendations in conjunction with the advisers

  • Write suitability reports for cases of varying complexity

  • Run cashflow models for clients

  • Be a point of contact for technical queries for CS and advisers

  • Communicating with clients on research and report time scales

  • Attend client meetings where required

  • Helping to train other members of the team

  • Potentially getting involved in some project work to further improve our systems and processes

  • Leading Pod meetings

  • Undertake peer reviews for the paraplanning team

Essential attributes the successful candidate should possess

The successful candidate will be confident dealing with HNW clients and professional connections and a natural problem solver. The role may suit an able career paraplanner who does not wish to be client facing but does want to be a key individual within a thriving business:

  • Demonstrate a strong technical knowledge and understanding of all financial products

  • Be CII level 4 diploma qualified as a minimum and ideally working towards Chartered status

  • Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience within a paraplanning role

  • Have strong IT skills; experience of Curo, FE Analytics and Voyant are advantageous

  • Have a good attention to detail

  • Be a good team player

  • Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing

  • Be comfortable with working in a fast-paced environment

  • Be organised and able to manage a busy workload

The benefits for you: The salary is £35,000 - £45,000 depending on experience, alongside 28 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), life assurance, income protection and a pension, alongside access to our flexible benefits platform. Just as importantly, you’ll get to experience their culture, which they really do live and breathe ensuring they offer a fantastic place to work for every single one of their 230+ people. The company works hard, but certainly have an awful lot of fun along the way.

Give Liam a call today to discuss the role in detail and learn more about this great company and opportunity.