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Harding Financial

Pensions & Benefits Consultant

Guildford
Posted about 15 hours ago
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Job Title: Pensions & Benefits Consultant

Hours: Full time (37.5 hours a week) or Part Time (approximately 15 hours a week)

Location: Hybrid (office in Shalford and home)

Our Company

Alex Simpson established Harding Financial Ltd in 2011 with the goal of becoming the South East’s premier independent financial planning and employee benefits firm. The Retail Distribution Review had just been announced by the Financial Services Authority, and was to be enforced on 1st January 2013. At the time many advisory firms were downsizing or even leaving the industry to avoid the more stringent legislation and qualification requirements. Alex saw this as a brilliant opportunity to launch Harding Financial and improve the reputation of independent financial advice while providing clients with a highly professional and personally tailored service.

Our team has steadily grown and everyone shares Alex’s commitment to trustworthy advice of the highest quality. Some might even say we are obsessive about creating the best possible outcomes for all of our clients.

Everyone at Harding is proud to know that we do more research, talk to more people - in and out of the industry - attend more seminars, read more books and articles, take more exams, continually boost our knowledge levels, debate and discuss, live and laugh, smile and frown more than any other business you’ll ever engage with.

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We are continuing to build a team of individuals who share the company’s passion for high quality, customer driven advice.

The Role

  • Identifying and prospecting new client relationships with the intention of building a portfolio of corporate clients to advise.
  • Work closely with the management team to develop local marketing and events strategy.
  • Developing your own personal network of introducers.
  • Deal with new business enquiries received via the company website and existing introducers.
  • Identifying new sources of income through cross-sell opportunities.
  • Build and maintain strong client relationships, providing exceptional service and support.
  • Consult with corporate clients to understand their specific employee benefits needs and objectives.
  • Design and present customised employee benefits solutions that align with client goals.
  • Collaborate with the team to ensure the successful implementation and ongoing management of employee benefits programs.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and regulations to provide expert guidance and recommendations to clients.
  • Delivering employee education programmes to include one to one employee meetings and group presentations.

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Qualifications, Experience & Skills

  • Ideally degree or equivalent qualified
  • A minimum of five years’ experience in an employee benefits role with strong experience in the area of pensions and auto enrolment.
  • Proven track record of new business lead generation and conversion.
  • Proven track record of relationship management.
  • Experience and a good level of competency using Microsoft Office.
  • You have excellent questioning and listening skills and are able to communicate in a professional manner
  • A natural networker
  • Self- motivated and driven to succeed and deliver a first class service to clients
  • Proven presentation skills
  • Good at problem solving and thinking outside the box
  • Well organised with the ability to prioritise
  • Good attention to detail
  • Hands on, can do approach to work
  • Fantastic interpersonal skills
  • Good systems and IT skills

To register your interest, please email your CV to careers@hardingfinancial.co.uk

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Skills

Employee Benefits Consulting
Pensions
Auto Enrolment
New Business Lead Generation
Relationship Management
Microsoft Office
Networking
Presentation Skills
Problem Solving
Interpersonal Skills
Client Relationship Management
Corporate Strategy
Employee Education
Cross-selling
Market Research

Location

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

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