AV Trinity | Careers

Links to vacancies:

- Independent Financial Adviser (Chartered Financial Planner).

- Mortgage Support.

- Speculative Applications.

Listed: 31/01/2025

The main purpose of this role is to manage and grow a portfolio of affluent and high-net-worth clients. We advise across the board with key areas of focus on retirement planning and execution, long-term wealth creation and preservation, and later life planning.

Our Chartered Financial Planners work alongside our Mortgage Advisers, and collaborate with solicitors and accountants to deliver comprehensive, holistic financial advice to our private and corporate clients.

We are seeking an experienced Chartered Financial Planner to join our successful team. You will have an existing client bank that you are able to bring with you to AV Trinity, on which we will complete due diligence prior to an offer of employment being made.

Reports to:

• Compliance and Operations Director, Managing Director.

Direct reports:

• None (Paraplanning and Administration support provided and managed by the Head of Paraplanning).

Key responsibilities:

Your primary responsibility is to manage and grow a portfolio of affluent and high-net-worth clients to enable the business to meet its objectives. Your day to day responsibilities will include the following:

• Completing annual reviews of existing clients, ensuring ongoing suitability of advice, and appropriateness of fees.

• Promptly contacting leads when received, and arranging initial meetings.

• Onboarding new clients in line with business objectives.

• Building relationships with professional connections to generate quality client referrals.

• Working with the Paraplanning and Administration teams to ensure accurate client suitability reports and other advice-related documents, and accurate client data held on our back-office systems.

Additionally, you will need to:

• Ensure that suitable client outcomes are delivered without exception.

• Manage and prioritise workloads appropriately, working closely with the Paraplanning and Administration teams.

• Maintain an up to date CPD record.

• Adhere to all AML and financial crime rules.

• Create and maintain a culture of positivity, support, and mutual respect.

• Support other colleagues in terms of workload and training as and when required.

• Follow strict regulatory rules and guidelines, and the firm’s policies and procedures at all times.

• Adhere to ethical and good codes of conduct and practices as detailed by the firm, the CII and the FCA.

Salary and benefits:

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Salary: c.£72,000 to £77,000 (negotiable dependent on flex-benefits choices and client bank)

Benefits package available (subject to eligibility) including:

• Hybrid working (part office/part home working)

• Profit share scheme (up to 20% of basic salary)

• Pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution depending on flex-benefits choices)

• 25 days’ holiday increasing after two years’ service, plus bank holidays

• Company sick pay, private medical insurance, and death in service

• Company events, on-site free parking, and free tea, coffee and biscuits in the office

We are always interested to hear from fully qualified and experienced:

• Financial Advisers.

• Mortgage Advisers.

• Paraplanners.

If you have a substantial background in the financial services sector and are based around Tunbridge Wells, we would love to hear from you. Please click the button below to send a PDF copy of your CV to our management team.

For individual use only, no recruiters or agencies.

Oakhurst House, 77 Mount Ephraim.

Our office is the best of both worlds as it’s within easy walking distance of town yet has plenty of space for parking. The building is in a beautiful parkland setting and the interior has been recently refurbished to a very high standard. Our team think it’s a great environment to work in and is just one of the many benefits of working at AV Trinity.

Find Us.

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Big Company Benefits in a Small Firm.

To build the best team, we have to be the best employers; so we are committed to offering the same company benefits as national firms. This means:

• Excellent salaries.

• A share of the company’s profits.

• Remote working opportunities.

• Significant pension contributions.

• Generous death in service benefits.

• A flexible benefits package that includes private health insurance.

• Above average days of paid annual leave and the office is always closed on Bank Holidays.

• Regular company events like BBQs, summer parties and a big Christmas celebration.

• Free car parking.

Corporate Social Responsibility

At AV Trinity, we are serious about our responsibilities and actively promote Responsible Investing to our clients. Locally, we support the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells and the Stan Vidler Memorial Charitable Trust (SVMCT).

> Read more about our commitment to community.

Diversity.

AV Trinity in an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from everyone with the right skills, experience and track record.