Paraplanner / Financial Planning Support

We are looking for an experienced full-time Paraplanner / Financial Planning Support Executive to work in partnership with a Chartered Financial Planner and other members of the team to provide advice and service to HNW clients.

Providing support to the Financial Planner in the following key areas:

• Tax Planning (ISA, pension contributions, CGT planning)
• Estate Planning (inheritance tax, trust planning)
• Asset Allocation (review, compare, rebalance)
• Ongoing Portfolio Reviews

Responsibilities include:

• Attending client meetings alongside senior members of the team and ensuring meeting notes are captured.
• Being aware of the current status regarding every client within the allocated client list and proactively ensuring that all necessary actions are completed promptly.
• Undertaking research and analysing products/services that are appropriate for each individual client.
• Drawing up recommendation reports and investment strategies for review by the Financial Planner.
• Taking primary responsibility to ensure that recommendations are fully implemented in a timely manner.
• Obtaining information relating to a clients’ existing plans.
• Analysing clients’ existing position and making recommendations to the Financial Planner.
• Supporting the Financial Planner by conducting research on products and helping find solutions.
• Conducting cash-flow analysis.
• Preparing pre-meeting materials, including comparisons of alternative solutions, supporting material, pre-population of forms and suitability reports.
• Preparing suitability letters, writing reports and recommendations.
• Acting as the first point of contact for client queries.
• Completing technical calculations for both pensions and investments.
• Preparing business submissions.
• Instinctively providing excellent standards of client service.
• Arranging for plans to be submitted to provider companies.
• Delivering relevant client engagement material leading up to advice (Pre-advice Support) including PowerPoint presentations and summaries of existing policies.
• Providing advice documentation including reports, suitability letters and FCA required KIIDs/Personal Illustrations etc. (Advice Support).
• Leading the processing of advice, once approved by the client (Post-advice Support).
• Keeping the relevant Financial Planners/Directors informed of any/all developments relating to the processing of client advice.
• Chasing other members of the team as well as third parties, to ensure action plans are fully completed on time and in a compliant manner.
• Managing client files and using internal data management systems to ensure client records are kept to highest levels of detail/accuracy, in a timely manner, and in keeping with FCA standards.
• Driving the highest standards of the Firm’s data management.

The Candidate

Essential skills, experience and qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years of previous paraplanning experience (including research, recommendations and reports) within a fast-paced wealth management/IFA environment.
• Level 4 diploma in financial planning/ DipPFS Qualified.
• Adaptability and willingness to embrace change.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working with investments.
• High level of analytical capability.
• Ability to write suitability reports and all forms of general communication with accuracy.
• Good overall business knowledge.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to create a positive impression with clients.
• Confidence to chase advisers as necessary and to demand quality service from external providers, to ensure that all allocated tasks are completed within a reasonable timeframe.
• Resilience, ability to cope with a high pace of work, fast pace of work and a dynamic environment.
• Ability to interact with high fliers and high net worth individuals in a confident, professional and natural manner.
• Graduate level or equivalent through experience.

Desirable experience and qualifications:

• Chartered Status attained or being worked towards (one CII ‘AF’ qualification to be attained each calendar year).
• Familiarity with platforms (for instance AJ Bell, Intelliflo).
• Solid knowledge of the key financial products and solutions, including pensions, ISAs, SSAS & SIPP, trusts.
• Experience working in a “Whole of Market” firm.

Why should you join?

Because you’ll be part of an ambitious and dynamic team that’s storming the finance industry. Mulberry Bow grows by circa 30% each year, which brings unprecedented career development opportunities for ambitious, hard working and capable individuals. You will be working from smart, modern and relaxed offices (combined with up to two days of working from home), alongside supportive, driven and highly accomplished colleagues.

How to apply

To apply email recruitment@mulberrybow.com with your CV and tell us why you’d love to work with us and why we’d love to work with you.