PARAPLANNER – (CFP)

Overview

(Area): Cape Town

(Salary): Market Related

(Ref: LM)

An established wealth management group requires a Paraplanner to join their growing team in Cape Town. Clientele are high net worth individuals, corporates and trusts. This is an excellent long term career prospect.

 Requirements:

• A BCom Degree
• Post Grad Honours in either Financial Planning, Economics, Finance or similar

• CFP® Professional or Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning and FPI Competency Exam – complete or in progress
• Experience in Paraplanning / the financial planning environment preferable

Key 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

Please email Lettie Muller: [email protected]

Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates.

Should you not hear from us within 14 days then please consider your application as unsuccessful.