Evelyn Partners is a UK leader in wealth management, providing personalised, expert investment management and financial planning advice to support clients in embracing what’s next. Our success hinges on our people and that’s our secret for longevity. We are a team of passionate professionals and everything we do is guided by our purpose – placing the power of good advice into more hands, we go further to understand the needs of our clients and what matters most to them. We’re here to help them make significant decisions with confidence, provide strong foundations for the future and guide them towards their goals.
Job DescriptionJob Purpose
To provide full administrative support to Financial Planners, ensuring client satisfaction through direct contact with clients, and other operational colleagues, while adhering to regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities
- To work closely with the aligned Financial Planners to deliver excellent client outcomes.
- To build relationships with clients and maintain regular contact.
- Maintain back-office systems and client records in line with the company policies.
- Request policy information from third party policy providers if applicable.
- Liaise with operational teams where support is provided on activities. e.g., scripts, transfers, corporate actions, static data changes, where applicable.
- Preparation of meeting packs and valuations
- Process all business in accordance with required processes & proactive pipeline management, to include establishing new accounts on internal systems and collating AML documentation as required.
- Identify and report any risks, breaches, or errors through ensuring risks are logged through to mitigating actions and controls.
- To encourage client, use of portal and other digital tools, provide guidance where required.
- To collaborate and share best practices with colleagues.
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
- Excellent standard of education, ideally degree qualified but not essential.
- Interested in further development through additional qualifications.
- Proven experience working in the financial planning/ wealth industry
- Experience of high level administration
- A strong ethic of client service.
- Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise work.
- Excellent communication skills both, influencing and organisational skills.
- Ability to use judgement and reasoning to propose solutions to problems.
As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:
- Competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Pension contribution
- Hybrid working model (role dependant)
- Generous holiday package
- Option to purchase additional holiday
- Shared parental leave
We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.
We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.
Skills Required
- Proven experience working in the financial planning/wealth industry
- Experience of high level administration
- Ability to collate AML documentation and establish new accounts on internal systems
- Strong ethic of client service and ability to build client relationships
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise work
- Excellent communication, influencing and organisational skills
- Ability to use judgement and reasoning to propose solutions
- Excellent standard of education, ideally degree qualified (not essential)
- Interest in further development through additional qualifications
What We Do
Life is full of decisions that shape our future, but to make great decisions we need certainty and good advice. At Evelyn Partners (formerly Tilney Smith & Williamson), we have been giving good advice and helping people and businesses flourish for almost 200 years. Our mission is ‘to place the power of good advice into more hands’. We’re committed to giving more people and businesses access to good advice, regardless of their wealth or the size of their company. We are the UK’s leading integrated wealth management and professional services group. We can look after the combined wealth and tax needs of our clients and provide specialist accountancy, assurance, tax and advisory services for businesses. Our clients range from online investors to those requiring bespoke wealth management, and from charities to entrepreneurs and corporate businesses. By understanding you and partnering with you, our advice can help you achieve what matters to you most
