Highly respected national wealth management practice in Edinburgh are currently looking for an experienced Paraplanner Team Leader to join their Edinburgh team.

About the role:
To lead, motivate and develop a paraplanning team. To prepare suitability reports and prepare technical client work for the Senior Financial Planners. Have an in-depth knowledge of complex written advice and understanding for clients' needs and the desired client outcomes. To work with the Managing Partner/team heads to optimise capacity and performance within the team.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare suitability reports across a wide range of advice types, financial products and investment solutions, undertaking technical research as required
• Conduct appraisals, 121s and drives performance within the team
• Coach, mentor and provide training to develop Paraplanners
• Manage the report workflow, drive efficiencies within the team and be a technical point of reference for the team
• Responsible for overseeing the competence framework of the team by maintaining the skills matrix to understand the skills of the paraplanning team. This will involve doing peer checks and obtaining feedback from advice quality and Financial Planners, including any in-house testing
• Promote a service excellence mind-set throughout the team and wider organisation
• Identify and report any risks, breaches, or errors through ensuring risks are logged through to mitigating actions and controls
• Work in partnership with Managing Partner, team heads, projects, L&D along with specialist teams to identify training and coaching needs and to develop team and individual plans

Qualifications:

• Minimum Diploma in Financial Planning (DipPFS) (ideally Chartered) a desire to develop further and to undertake relevant examinations
• Experience of paraplanning gained with a proven solid technical knowledge
• Experience of managing and developing a team
• Proven track record of delivering written financial advice
• Strong stakeholder management with positive influencing skills

Salary and benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependant)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday

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