193 Financial Services / Investment jobs in St Albans

This role involves a wide range of administrative and organisational functions, ensuring a strong relationship between investment manager and client. Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Assisting in the provision of a full range of administrative services for the team.
• Processing the outgoing/in coming DX and Royal Mail.
• Answering the telephone and transferring calls / taking messages and recording telephone notes on client files.
• Completing dictation transcriptions.
• Scanning, shredding and photocopying documentation when required.
• Preparing and providing IMs with requisite documents for meetings.
• Preparing meeting refreshments, including meeting & greeting clients upon arrival.
• Ensuring valuations are produced and despatched to clients within regulatory timescales.
• Personal compliance with all regulatory issues and promotion of compliance culture throughout your department.
• Identify ways to improve efficiencies.
• Assist in all aspects of opening and maintaining client accounts, including obtaining AML documentation.
• Keeping client information up to date and assisting in the production of client suitability reports. This may well involve communicating directly with clients, and intermediaries.
• Follow the progress of new investments coming into Charles Stanley, and to follow up any problems/issues which may arise.
• Liaise with the accounts department over cash movements and to administer payments, including currency payments.
• Setting up, closing and managing client files, ensuring all information is up to date and accurate.
• Ensure compliance regulations are adhered to.
• Follow up on new client connections, ensuring that the necessary forms are completed and fully processed.
• Manage occasional special projects, such as collection of Know Your Client (KYC) information.
• Assist with Probate valuations and sales.
• Subject to qualifications and relevant experience:
• Assist with the preparation of client reports.
• Provide input in recommendations for switches.
• Implement transactions (buys and sells), as well as CGT calculations and valuations history.
• XO dealing as instructed.
• Responding to corporate actions including notifying clients.
• Preparing documentation for potential new clients for IMs.
• Providing IMs with MI to support client suitability processing.
  
  Educated to GCSE (or equivalent) level including Maths and English. A-Levels preferred.
• For IP1, whilst not essential an industry recognised qualification such as an Investment Operations Certificate would be an advantage. For IP2 this is an essential requirement.
• Experience of working in a similar environment is preferable as is a general understanding of the stock market and investment operations.
Knowledge & Skills:
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Highly organised, and numerate.
• The ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining a high level of attention to detail and accuracy is essential.
• A high degree of initiative is expected in relation to problem solving and identifying and taking on tasks that need to be completed.
• A strong team player. The role involves supporting a number of Investment Managers and having the flexibility to adapt to their particular styles of working is key.
• An enthusiastic, 'can-do' attitude, combined with a personable manner.