Paraplanner | Cape Town

Our client is scouting for an exceptional Paraplanner to join their team and provide key support to Wealth Managers through professional, in-depth research and preparation of best practice solutions for client wealth creation and holistic financial wellbeing.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Records of Advice for both Local and Offshore Investments and Long-Term Assurance
• Preparation of Financial Plans (Death, Disability, Retirement and Estate)
• Investment Portfolio and underlying Fund Investigations and formulating of ideas for recommendations
• Client portfolio investigations (both investment and risk products)
• Keeping abreast of the changing tax and legal environment
• Once recommendations are finalised with the Financial Planner, communicate with the Administration Manager for the correct paperwork to be prepared. Once paperwork is completed, ensure it is correct in accordance with the deal sheet and recommendation.
• Investigation of new opportunities in an ever-changing environment (such as, but not limited to, technical investigations into new products/structures/processes)
• Assist administrators, clients and financial planners with more technical tasks and relevant queries that require investigations or detailed calculations and are not process driven
• Client communication and follow up regarding all areas of the Paraplanner’s responsibility

Key Performance Measures

Professional Growth/Development:

• Personal professional milestones are achieved as per training schedule

Meet all deadlines timeously:

• Client documents and related information for all areas of responsibility including client meetings and reviews meetings are prepared accurately and timeously

All work is completed accurately with attention to detail:

• Paraplanner takes responsibility for checking own work
• Consistent high quality of work is evident in thorough preparation

Financial Planner is kept fully appraised and regularly updated on all developments/updates regarding clients:

• Paraplanner schedules/initiates weekly task meetings with Financial Planner; as well as, as-and-when required in order to proceed with your work

Client communication and follow up:

• Paraplanner to timeously and in a professional manner, communicate with clients (i.e. face to face, by email or telephonically) relating to all areas of responsibility pertaining to the Paraplanner’s tasks (i.e. information gathering, document sending, follow ups etc.)

Important relationships:

• Financial Planners
• Managers
• Administrators
• Other professional advisors e.g. Attorneys and Accountants
• Clients
• Paraplanner Team Members
• Product providers

Qualifications:

• Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning and FPI Competency Exam

Experience:

• Broad knowledge of global financial markets is desirable
• Financial planning industry experience is preferable

Competencies:

• Attention to detail – Detailed and accurate
• Clear thinker
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Independent and creative problem solver
• Initiative – Ability to achieve agreed outcomes without supervision
• Excellent administrative, research, report writing and communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills with a preference for working in a structured, planned manner
• Understanding of the Financial Planning process
• Able to work within defined business processes
• Prioritise and plan own workload
• Ability to multi‐task and prioritise effectively
• Articulate
• Excellent inter‐personal skills, both written and verbal
• IT skills
• Team player