Senior Financial Planning Manager - Up to £120k salary - Manage HNW clients and advisers

• Senior Financial Planning Manager
• Advise existing HNW clients (£1m+)
• Manage a team of advisers (junior and senior)
• Surrey based Chartered IFA firm
• £100k - £120k basic salary plus benefits and bonuses
• Benefits: Death in Service, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection

My client are a Chartered independent wealth planning firm with offices in Surrey who I have met and placed 6 members of staff with. They offer whole of market financial advice to HNW retirees, accumulators, local families and SME owners based across Sussex, Kent and London. In their current setup they manage the affairs of 200 families. They give advice on pensions, investments, tax planning, cashflow modelling, retirement planning and protections. They have very longstanding relations stretching back 20 years. An average client for them has £1m of invested assets, with their top client having multiple millions invested.

The business has built an outstanding reputation and is very engaged in the local community. They place exceptional customer satisfaction at the top of their priorities resulting in a very high rate of retention. The support team comprises of an experienced team of Administrators and Paraplanners who are actively encouraged to progress and develop as both professionals and individuals via ongoing CPD and industry exams. The business also has dedicated Operation Manager/Practice Manager ensuring a smooth functioning of the business too.

The Managing Director is creating a brand-new role for a senior financial adviser with a demonstrable track record of advising high net worth clients and also managing financial advisers to take on a strategic role working very closely with the Managing Director. You will have a strategic lens to your working practices and be always looking to improve the efficiency and performance levels of a team of financial advisers. You will have a minimum 10+ years of experience working within private client wealth management industry and 3-5 years of proven leadership managing financial advisers and working closely with executive teams.

You will be allocated a book of clients to manage, many of which are the HNW cases (up to £8m of assets), you will be writing performance plans, conducting 1-2-1 meetings with the advisers you are managing, appraisals, meeting observations, KPI reviews and writing business development/marketing plans. You will also be involved in recruiting new advisers and ensuring the business achieves its growth plans. You will be working very closely with the admin, paraplanning and operations teams closely and seeking to find new ways of working to improve the support to advisers.

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