Elevate your career with Lucent Financial Planning—where expertise meets energy, and every day is an opportunity to make a real difference for clients you’ll genuinely enjoy working with!
Why You’ll Love Lucent
- We’re more than colleagues—we’re like family. That’s right, love each other but argue! Think client socials, educational workshops, weekday walks and Summer BBQs.
- Flexible working that respects life outside the office. School run? Sports practice? No problem.
- A chartered, high‑calibre firm where you’re fun, yet technical, client‑centric prowess is celebrated, not hidden.
- A selective, "nice people only" client base—no awkward calls, just rewarding relationships.
- Shared success: the opportunity to be part of an Employee‑owned business.
- 30 days’ holiday (pro‑rata) + Christmas off + bank holidays.
- Friday 2 pm office closure.
- Company Pension 10% Employer Contribution, Bonus scheme, Group income protection, Death in service & Private medical insurance.
- Team socials, workshops, charity walks and events.
- A culture of loyalty, honesty and mutual respect—your growth is our growth.
The Role in a Nutshell
You’ll deliver best‑in‑class financial advice and nurture long‑term client partnerships. You’ll be supported by a top‑tier paraplanning team and client experience squad, yet empowered to drive your own business growth primarily through client referrals.
You will see Lucent as somewhere you call home for the long term where you have the scope to input into the wider vision and expand your role and responsibilities at your desire.
What You’ll Do
- Provide excellent holistic advice across:
- Pension & retirement planning (including switching)
- Investment strategies
- Inheritance tax & trust planning
- Protection solutions
- Retain and grow your portfolio through referrals primarily and targeted networking exposure
- Exceptional cash‑flow planning through Voyant and Timeline
- Deciding upon the strategy and Financial Plan for the client
- Maximising client need areas by building impeccable relationships with clients, their relatives and external third parties
- Mentor and develop our paraplanners and support staff
- Stay ahead of regulatory changes, being in the know and maintaining your CPD
- Achieve rounded KPIs while delivering a "right‑first‑time" service experience
- Embrace AI, researching, testing and optimising your toolkit to enable you to be efficient, accurate and deliver top‑notch service
- Actively participate in client events
- Deliver fun and engaging meetings
- Partake and lead in knowledge‑sharing adviser sessions and wider business adviser training sessions
- Have relevant social media and marketing presence for clients
- Ultimately service a client bank of around 70–100 clients, many of whom we will help you to onboard
Our Ideal You
You may have: started your own firm and don’t like doing it alone, or been with a large company and want something more dynamic or want to feel more valued. Either way, you want a home for the foreseeable future where you can be your authentic awesome self.
- Minimum 2 years’ IFA experience, with active SPS & CAS (preference for 3‑7 years advising experience).
- We want people to come and stay with us for at least ten years.
- Chartered status or clear path to achieve it in the next 12 months.
- Top‑tier literacy, numeracy and decision‑making skills.
- Confident with Word, Excel—and the ability to pick up new systems fast.
- A self‑starter with a can‑do attitude and genuine team spirit.
- Client bank – we don’t really need your clients. We want you; if you have some you can’t let go, we understand why and will do our best to accommodate.
Nice to Have
- Intelligent Office (Intelliflo), Voyant, FE Analytics, Timeline cashflow planning software, Moneyinfo.
- A track record of building sustainable referrals and achieving retention targets.
We want people that want to be involved in the future of financial planning. What does this mean?
- Taking an interest inside of the day job to find out more about what’s going on.
- Enjoy attending events—to learn, not just to mill around! You are capable of taking that learning and applying it to your role and helping others in the business do so too.
- Friendly—people focussed. Enjoy socialising and finding out about people.
- Proactive helper—you want to help people. It’s very simple! That should be your sole motivation.
- It doesn’t matter what really, because we are life planners and life is all encompassing. Taking that and applying relevant points to the role.
Ready to make a real impact in a vibrant, supportive environment?
Let’s chat—and bring your expertise to Lucent Financial Planning!
