Eight Financial Advice
Ongoing Advice Specialist
£28,000
We’re looking for an organised and detail-oriented Ongoing Advice Specialist to join our Ongoing Advice Team and support the delivery of high-quality, compliant financial advice documentation.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in paraplanning, financial services administration, or ongoing advice support who enjoys technical work, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and takes pride in delivering exceptional standards.
The RoleAs an Ongoing Advice Specialist, you’ll play a key role in supporting advisers and clients throughout the ongoing advice journey. You’ll be responsible for producing accurate and compliant suitability documentation, supporting case submissions, and ensuring all recommendations align with regulatory and internal standards.
Working closely with advisers, paraplanners, and Business Assurance teams, you’ll help ensure cases are processed efficiently while maintaining an exceptional level of quality and client care.
Key Responsibilities- Produce high-quality suitability letters for:
- Annual Reviews & Fund Switches
- Drawdown Reviews
- Mortgage Recommendations
- Disinvestment Scenarios
- Carry out income sustainability calculations and support ongoing drawdown assessments
- Prepare and submit cases to Business Assurance with accurate supporting documentation
- Review documentation for accuracy, completeness, and compliance before submission
- Liaise with internal teams to resolve queries and support smooth case progression
- Maintain accurate records across Salesforce, iBusiness, Monday.com, and other internal systems
- Keep up to date with FCA regulations, SJP guidance, and evolving compliance standards
Requirements
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
- Experienced within financial services, paraplanning, or ongoing advice support
- Confident producing technical and client-facing financial documentation
- Comfortable managing multiple cases and deadlines simultaneously
- A strong communicator who works well collaboratively across teams
- Proactive, dependable, and committed to delivering high standards
- Knowledge of pensions, drawdown, investments, fund switching, mortgages, and disinvestment processes would be highly beneficial.
Benefits
- Hybrid working: 3 days in the office, 2 days wherever you work best (after passing probation)
- Performance bonus + Company-wide bonus (when Eight hits targets)
- 28 days' holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off
- Private medical insurance & life assurance (4x salary)
- Wellbeing support: EAP, mental health helpline, cycle-to-work scheme
- Free mortgage and pension advice from our in-house experts
- Volunteering time: 8 paid hours annually via The Eight Foundation
- Regular socials & epic events
Skills Required
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
- Experience within financial services, paraplanning, or ongoing advice support
- Confident producing technical and client-facing financial documentation
- Comfortable managing multiple cases and deadlines simultaneously
- Strong communicator who works well collaboratively across teams
- Proactive, dependable, and committed to delivering high standards
- Maintain accurate records across Salesforce, iBusiness, Monday.com, and other internal systems
- Knowledge of pensions, drawdown, investments, fund switching, mortgages, and disinvestment processes
What We Do
At EIGHT Financial Advice, a multi-award winning Principal Partner Practice of St. James's Place Wealth Management, we have a wide range of expertise and knowledge, developed over many years, to help people - both individually and in business - fulfil their aims and aspirations, as well as offering that all important 'peace of mind' for the future. Putting our clients firmly at the heart of everything we do enables us to run a genuinely client-focused business. In our experience, no two clients are the same and we therefore ensure that we understand your personal or business objectives and deliver solutions that are right for you. We aim to deliver our commitment by: - Providing personal face to face financial advice - Giving you the opportunity to review your financial affairs regularly - Effectively managing your investments via our distinctive approach - Keeping you informed of the latest news - Listening to your feedback - Offering you seminars and events We do not provide off the shelf solutions, but we offer the benefit of a single relationship for all of your financial planning needs. We strive to offer the very best service to develop great relationships. The value of an investment with St. James's Place will be directly linked to the performance of the funds you select and the value can therefore go down as well as up. You may get back less than you invested. EIGHT Financial Advice is an Appointed Representative of and represents only St. James's Place Wealth Management Plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on the Group’s wealth management products and services, more details of which are set out on the Group’s website at https://www.sjp.co.uk/products. The St. James’s Place Partnership and the titles ‘Partner’ and ‘Partner Practice’ are marketing terms used to describe St. James’s Place representatives. EIGHT Financial Advice is a trading name of Eight Wealth Management.
