Overview
Join us as a Senior Wealth Planner, where you'll take a leading role in helping clients shape their financial future through thoughtful planning and investment advice. You'll work with new and existing clients to understand their long-term goals and offer bespoke solutions that support their financial and lifestyle needs. Your knowledge will help clients feel informed, supported, and empowered in the choices they make. This role is part of our Wealth Management Business and offers a chance to build lasting relationships and deliver a seamless client experience.
Responsibilities
* Manage and grow client relationships and acquire new clients – identifying and managing solutions to meet a wide range of client needs.
* Establish a sound understanding of the strategy of the clients in their portfolio through regular proactive contact, responding to client / prospect queries and requests and identifying opportunities that will deliver long‑term commercial reward.
* Manage operational, reputational, financial crime and credit risk for the portfolio to avoid exposing the bank to undue risk.
* Ensure all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, the Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal policies and standards; refer matters to group colleagues where appropriate.
* Contribute to strategy setting, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets and policies; manage and maintain processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalates breaches of policies/procedures.
* If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions and changes. Lead specialists to influence departmental operations, balancing short‑ and long‑term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
* Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours that create an environment where colleagues can thrive: listen and be authentic, energise and inspire, align across the enterprise, and develop others.
* If not managing a team, act as a subject‑matter expert within your discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments, train and coach less experienced specialists, and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
* Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
* Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
* Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work the team does.
* Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organisational functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
* Collaborate with other business units to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
* Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. Conduct in‑depth analysis and interpretative thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
* Adopt and incorporate outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
* Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
Qualifications
* A financial planning qualification at RDR Level 4 or above, including certification in advising on packaged products.
* Experience offering personalised planning and investment advice, with a solid understanding of financial markets, products and regulations.
* Ability to use digital tools to support client conversations, along with thoughtful communication that builds trust.
* A careful approach to identifying and managing risk, while maintaining high standards of compliance.
* Experience working with internal teams and external networks to grow client relationships.
* Broad knowledge of the financial services industry, especially retail regulated products and asset management.
* Familiarity with pensions, investment advice and UK taxation.
* FCA‑approved status and experience managing risk within a client portfolio.
* Adaptability and curiosity in a fast‑changing environment.
Key critical skills relevant for success in this role include risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.
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