Operations Executive - Fees (Glasgow or Leeds)
* Full-time
* Office Location: Glasgow (177 Bothwell Street)
Evelyn Partners is the UK’s leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, with over 186 years of experience in helping generations of people and businesses to thrive. We offer an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities, and businesses.
We provide an award-winning service for our clients by employing the best people. Join us on our mission to place the power of good advice into more hands because we believe that everyone deserves access to good advice, regardless of where they’re at in their financial journey.
An exceptional track record of growth and innovation is driven by our core values of: Personal, offering advice based on a true understanding of what matters to our clients; Partnership, working with our clients in a joined-up, collaborative way; and Performance, demonstrating a breadth and depth of advice expertise to deliver first-class results.
We’re seeking a talented individual to join our Fees team in Glasgow or Leeds. You will provide a first-class support function to the financial planning teams nationwide by way of processing service agreements and fees both accurately and within agreed timescales.
This will include the creation of advice and ongoing fee expectations, maintenance of service records, invoicing, cancellations, and amendments, assisting the finance team with payment defaults, missing expectations and aged debt, and the calculation/processing of the payments to introducers and fee exceptions.
As Operations Executive - Fees, your responsibilities will include among others:
* Ensure that all tasks are completed to a high standard and work produced within deadlines, any anomalies are reported to your line manager within agreed timescales and personal and team KPI’s / KRI’s / MIR are met.
* Respond to telephone and email enquiries in a timely professional manner, liaising with fund managers and external parties where relevant and escalating any issues where necessary.
* Log, maintain and respond to written client enquiries in a timely manner, ensuring all client and external documents are relevant and up to date.
* Ensure that all work is with a high level of accuracy, including data input, document checking and payments, escalating to manager or relevant department where necessary.
* Ensure that fair treatment of clients is at the forefront of all activities and that all interactions are conducted in an open and transparent manner, ensuring high-quality service levels are delivered.
* Ensure that knowledge and skills are maintained and developed in line with industry, regulatory and internal requirements by undertaking regular and appropriate continuous professional development (CPD).
To be successful in this role, you should:
* Experience gained within a financial services institution especially in Operations is advantageous but not essential.
* Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages: Minimum basic level Word and intermediate level Excel.
* Strong interpersonal skills are essential, with the ability to communicate well both written and verbally to various audiences, including senior audiences.
* Demonstrate ability to understand and summarise complex information in a professional and concise manner, with high levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
* Ability to solve problems quickly, organise workloads effectively and meet tight deadlines.
* Respond to queries from both internal and external parties in a timely manner and provide a high level of customer service.
* Relevant professional qualifications e.g. CISI Investment Operations Certificate / CII Certificate in Financial Services / CII Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning, desirable but not essential.
As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:
* Private medical insurance
* Life assurance
* Pension contribution
* Generous holiday package
* Option to purchase additional holiday
* Shared parental leave
We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At Evelyn Partners, we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.
We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.
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