The role of the Financial Adviser is to inform and advise clients on financial strategies, plans and products. You will get to know your clients and make them feel comfortable and supported throughout their financial journey, whether that be investing for the future or managing their finances in retirement.
Reports to: Managing Director Chris Breward FPFS
Key Responsibilities & Outputs
- To establish contact with clients and gather enough information needed to provide suitable advice.
- To ensure that there is enough material information to support the advice given.
- To be able to analyse client information conscientiously and accurately in order to provide suitable advice.
- To understand and apply all the company’s research systems – training will be provided.
- To present suitable advice to clients in a concise and balanced manner explaining clearly charges and disadvantages together with the main reasons for advice.
- To complete all basic documentation to support the advice process in a thorough and conscientious manner.
- To ensure that you are adequately prepared for client meetings by liaising with other staff members to have a fully robust client file prepared ahead of the meeting.
- Ensuring that during client meetings, fact finds and meeting notes are fully completed and up to date.
- Help generate new client enquiries and help grow the business over the long-term.
- Participate in marketing activities such as recording videos, speaking at seminars and assisting in creating marketing materials.
- To ensure that actions from client meetings are completed within a reasonable timeframe and in line with both client and company expectations.
- CPD, training and competence needs to be maintained annually and logged appropriately.
- Maintain log of new business enquiries and report to MD.
- Work with the Admin team ensuring this document is kept up to date with enough notes to identify any Not Taken Up and Contact In Future clients.
Other Responsibilities
- To maintain good time management and effective organisation to ensure tasks are prioritised.
- Ensure that all data protection procedures are adhered to, ensuring that information is not passed to anyone other than the relevant staff and documents and filed and disposed of securely.
- Keeping up to date with any changes to the FCA rules and other regulatory requirements.
- Maintaining an up to date working knowledge of Intelliflo and any other computer software we use, including Microsoft Office.
- Ensuring that any business conducted is done in a responsible and compliant manner, meeting all legislative requirements, both internally and externally.
- Developing and maintaining internal relationships to help maintain business flow and meeting agreed targets.
- Developing and maintaining professional connections to help build positive relationships across the industry.
The role holder may, from time to time, be required to undertake reasonable additional or other duties as are necessary to meet the needs of the business.
