Investment Manager

We are actively recruiting for an Investment Manager to join us on a full-time, permanent basis in London.

This is a key client-facing role, having responsibility for client investment portfolios, client relationships and for supporting the client in engagement with our financial planners.

You'll manage up to 100 clients having portfolios of £500,000 or more, following our central investment strategies. The role acquires new clients, primarily through working with our own Wealth Planners and Business Development managers with the role holder expected to be competent in presenting our service to potential clients and to introducers such as lawyers and other professional advisers.

The role also supports our investment strategy and business plans, through input to our Personal Portfolio Committee. You'll be responsible for their compliance with regulatory and professional standards and for their ongoing technical competence and professional development.

Please note, this role is mainly based from our London office 4/5 days per week.

Kingswood Holdings Limited (trading as Kingswood) is an AIM-listed integrated wealth management group, with more than 19,000 active clients and c. £9 billion of Assets under Management. It has a growing network of offices across the UK as well as offices in New York and Johannesburg. Clients range from private individuals to some of the UK’s largest universities. The Group’s vision is to become a leading global provider of trusted wealth planning and investment management solutions to clients, underpinned by investment in people and innovation in technology to support our advisers and clients.

What you’ll do as an Investment Manager:

• Ensure that clients are served and managed to the highest professional standards and in accordance with all relevant regulatory considerations.
• Provide an appropriate standard of service and communication to all clients.
• Ensure that clients understand their investments, that the investments are suitable and that performance reviews, risk profile reviews and other client servicing activity happens at the right intervals and are conducted to the highest standards.
• Manage any ad hoc client requirements and ensure that clients maintain the highest levels of satisfaction with our service.
• Follow the company’s operating policies and procedures, so that client servicing is conducted consistently and efficiently and operational risks are appropriately managed.
• Manage client portfolios to the highest standards by ensuring that client assets are allocated to an appropriate mandate and investment model, and that any model changes are immediately implemented.
• Monitor the tax implications of portfolios as agreed with clients, particularly for CGT, and ensure that these are considered when making portfolio changes; review any model exceptions which arise with the Head of Investment to agree any appropriate deviations from the model.
• Liaise with Financial Planning colleagues to ensure that clients are offered appropriate advice in relation to areas such as IHT planning, pensions, succession planning and protection.
• Acquire new clients and AUM.
• Grow the number of clients served by proactively working with Wealth Planners and by making presentations to professional firms where appropriate.
• Respond to new enquiry leads generated by the firm, converting them to become new clients.
• Grow AUM by encouraging clients to bring more assets to the firm, identifying specific opportunities such as ISAs and SIPPs.
• Provide input to the investment management process, by way of insights and suggestions shared with the Personal Portfolio Committee.
• Maintain close working relationships with colleagues in operations, risk and compliance and other support areas, to ensure that client servicing is maintained efficiently, consistently and safely.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and share these with the team.
• Immediately escalate any potential compliance, operational or reputational risks to a member of the executive committee.
• Share knowledge and insight with colleagues and foster a collegiate team culture across the firm.

What we’re looking for:

• An individual that is CISI - Level 6 qualified as a minimum with a desire to continue with exams and progress to level 6.
• A minimum of three years’ experience managing a portfolio of UK private clients.
• Direct experience of managing third party funds.
• A clear interest in markets.
• An ability to relate to a broad range of individuals.
• A can-do attitude.

Here at Kingswood Group, we’re all about our people and are committed to recruiting and maintaining a diverse workforce.

We celebrate, recognise, and appreciate our differences, irrespective of background, race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. We’re continually learning and improving our processes and policies to ensure an inclusive culture for all our employees. That’s why upon joining Kingswood, you’ll be able to contribute to our overall values to continue to make us one of the best places to work. In addition to this, we promote employee recognition and some of the top career development opportunities for those that are looking to progress.

Teamwork, inclusivity, and culture in our business is really important to us – whilst we continue to add new benefits to offer the very best to our Kingswood Group, here is a rundown of our core benefits available to our fantastic employees:

• 25 days annual leave
• An extra day off for your birthday!
• Cycle to work scheme – If you’re an individual who enjoys a cycle into work, we’ve got you covered when it comes to saving money on a bike or equipment to use for commuting to our office locations.
• Life Assurance – An insurance that pays out a lump sum to your family should you pass away in service.
• Private healthcare – you’ll be able to provide cover for you and your family, by being granted access to our fabulous private healthcare (through Vitality), on top of receiving free annual eye tests (private healthcare is subject to one year’s service).
• 2 paid volunteering days – per year, for you to dedicate your time to a cause you are passionate about.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay for all our Kingswood Group employees.

ONE KINGSWOOD

Kingswood is passionate about creating a unified and consistent culture across all of our locations and business activities. All employees are expected to take responsibility for embodying our ‘One Kingswood’ behaviours and supporting others to live these behaviours too. Our Kingswood behaviours are:

• Support and empower – we recognise others’ contributions and collaborate to support success.
• Demonstrate Respect – we listen to understand and consider the impact of our words and actions.
• Continuously Evolve – we are curious and positive in our approach; providing constructive feedback to support growth.
• Champion Inclusivity – we embrace individuality and openness to create a vibrant, welcoming environment for all.
• Uphold Responsibility – we treat others fairly and always learn from our mistakes.