Senior Paraplanner

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Paraplanner to help us deliver the next generation of financial advice and join us on a mission to transform 5 million lives, by making high quality financial planning and advice and affordable and accessible to everyone everywhere.

This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious self-starter to accelerate their development by taking a broad and varied senior role, within a rapidly growing company.

About Octopus Money

At Octopus Money, we’re on a mission to make money advice accessible to all – because the right advice can turn your life dreams into reality.

The facts are alarming: half of Brits reach retirement age without enough money to live the life they want, financial stress is a leading cause of poor mental health and only 8% of us have access to 1-to-1 advice.

There’s plenty of information out there, but most of us just wish that someone we trust would tell us what to do with our money!

With Octopus, you get a personalised plan and a friendly expert to help you make it happen. We combine advisers, coaches and technology to understand your situation and recommend the right steps for your savings, investments, pensions and more. Then, we make it easy to invest in a custom portfolio, managed by experts.

We believe everyone deserves personal, 1-to-1 advice with their money.

The role and opportunity 

At Octopus Money we help people get control of their money in the way that works best for them - so we deliver both financial coaching and financial advice under one roof. This role is in the advice team but also offers an unparalleled opportunity to apply your skills to solve the advice gap in a whole new way by working alongside a team of financial coaches. 

Day to day, the Senior Paraplanner will play a key role in designing, building and improving our advice delivery and processes to ensure we’re providing a world class customer experience. The role has significant potential for progression and the ideal candidate will be someone who prides themselves on delivering the highest quality of financial advice, is highly technical whilst also passionate about improving the systems and processes that sit around financial planning. Leadership experience is a plus, although not essential.

Day to day you will be:

• Responsible for delivering high quality financial advice to our customers
• Undertaking cashflow modelling
• Working on replacement business analysis
• Responding to technical client queries
• Designing and refining our processes and ways of working
• Helping to train, support and manage more junior colleagues and admin support
• Using your initiative to re-design processes and automate as much as possible.
• Coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders across the business to identify issues and opportunities, and execute solutions effectively.

About You

A genuine desire to help people
We are a mission-driven business, so it’s important that you can demonstrate a strong desire to help people and improve their lives. 

Collaborative and a great team player
We’ve built a great team of top performers, and you’ll need to work with others from across the business to identify problems, agree solutions and implement changes

Problem solver at heart with an analytical mindset
You should be someone who gets excited by complex problems and can find creative ways to solve them no matter what your level of knowledge and experience with the subject matter. You should be able to digest complexity and develop a plan to move forward, without losing sight of the important details.

Goal driven and not afraid to get stuck in
We like to set ambitious goals and find creative ways to hit them, even if that means rolling up our sleeves and doing manual tasks before we’ve managed to fully automate them. You should have a bias towards action and getting things done.

Required

• Minimum CII Level 4 qualifications (or equivalent) working towards Chartered Level 6 qualifications
• 5 years+ industry experience
• Proponent of cashflow modelling
• Team player and passionate about customer outcomes
• Excellent attention to detail
• Broad range of experience in many areas of advice (pensions, VCTs/EIS, protection and everything in between)
• Excellent communication skills and able to challenge and influence decision-making
• Accountability and ownership for own deliverables
• Desire to improve everything you touch and develop your own skills

In return for your contribution we offer a salary of £45,000 - £65,000 DOE + benefits

Please note, as a regulated business we are required to run background checks for all employees which covers adverse financial and unspent convictions. These will only take place upon a successful job offer.

About Octopus Group
Octopus is a group of companies which invests in the people, ideas and industries that will help to change the world. We collectively believe that the companies serving two of our most important needs – our financial wellbeing and our planet’s future – are failing. And we want that to change. We want everything we do, whether that’s in financial services or energy supply, to have a positive impact on the people it touches. The energy supply business - Octopus Energy is the #1 rated UK energy supply business, and the only one to be recommended by Which? three years in a row.

Perks & Benefits

Make a difference
We're on a mission to help millions of people improve their finances. Seeing the impact we can make on our client's lives is deeply rewarding, and motivates the whole team to keep doing more to improve our service. Our client feedback is extremely positive, with a rating of 4.8 out of 5 on Vouchedfor.

Flexible working
We currently operate a hybrid model which is a mix of office and remote. You'll have the option of working from home 2 days per week (Monday and Friday) with the remainder from our central London office in Holborn.

Work from anywhere
We give an 18 day work from anywhere allowance to swap out the on site days or take some time working from another country. NB - Due to compliance regulations this does not apply to individuals that give regulated financial advice.

Join a great team
We're a diverse team with decades of experience in financial services and a proven track record. We believe in treating everyone with transparency and respect.

Rapidly grow your career
We believe in hiring people who are better than us, and giving them opportunities to achieve great things. As we continue to scale up, there will be opportunities for ambitious new joiners to demonstrate their skills and take on bigger roles.

Share incentive plan and team bonus
Being part of Octopus we benefit from the group share incentive plan. In addition, for those who are not commission based we offer a team bonus provided we meet our team goals.

Pension, enhanced parental leave, private medical insurance & other perks
As an Octopus Money employee you'll get access to a company pension, enhanced parental leave, PMI, day off for your birthday and other benefits to make sure you're healthy and happy, now and in the future! 

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We believe in equal financial education for everybody, no matter their background.  We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated.

We do not and never will discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.