Client Service Administrator (CSA)

Rathbones Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection

Company share scheme

Discretionary bonus

Flexible holidays

Study support

Season travel ticket loans

Volunteering days

Gym discounts

Job summary

Rathbones Group in London seeks a Client Service Administrator to provide comprehensive administrative and client lifecycle support in a hybrid, permanent role. You will help ensure a smooth client experience, manage onboarding, transfers, payments, and correspondence, and support the team with meetings, travel, and reporting.

This entry-level role offers exposure to wealth management operations, data accuracy, and client communication within a collaborative office environment.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the regulatory environment is advantageous.
• Awareness of Rathbones products and services.
• Demonstrated interest in an administration career with evidence of proactive self development.
• Experience in a similar role in Financial Services is advantageous.
• GCSE English and Maths at grade A-C or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Efficiently manages client admin tasks with a focus on data accuracy, including onboarding, transfers, payments, account updates, closures and estate administration.
• Provides operational support such as booking meeting rooms, processing expenses and preparing meeting packs and correspondence.
• Assists with investigation and resolution of client queries, referring investment related queries to team members.
• Communicates with clients, providing accurate information within information-giving limits.
• Manages mass mailing communications processes, ensuring correspondence is updated as required.
• Creates and amends presentations or literature for client meetings.
• Maintains team diaries, arranging meetings and organising travel.
• Files correspondence and records in a timely manner, saving, filing and archiving client files.
• Contributes to Client Service meetings, suggesting improvements to procedures.
• Shares best practice with other Client Service staff.
• Covers phones as part of office duties.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Product awareness

Administration interest

Finance experience

Education

GCSE English & Maths

Job description

At Rathbones, our purpose is to help more people invest their money well, so they can live well.

We are one of the UK's leading providers of wealth management, investment management, financial planning and asset management services. We work with individuals and families, charities, trustees, financial advisers and other professional partners to help them make confident decisions about money and investments.

Our advisers take the time to understand each client's goals, values and circumstances. Together, we create a personalised approach designed to manage, preserve and grow their wealth over the long term.

Our services include discretionary investment management, financial planning, fund and asset management, tax planning, trust and company management, and specialist responsible investment services through Rathbone Greenbank Investments. We also work with financial advisers to help them deliver positive outcomes for their clients.

With roots dating back to 1742, Rathbones has been trusted for generations. Today, we manage £120.7 billion of client assets*, supported by more than 700 investment professionals across 21 offices in the UK and Channel Islands.

*Figures as at 30 June 2026.

Role Title: Client Service Administrator

Division: Wealth Management Client Care

Location: London

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Hybrid

About the Role

Provides comprehensive administrative and client life cycle processing support to ensure effective and efficient operations to deliver excellent client experience. This is a client facing role and is an entry level role for Client Service. The role holder will be part of a team that’s run by a central group but works day-to-day in the local office.

What you'll be responsible for

• Efficiently manages client admin tasks with a focus on data accuracy, including onboarding, transfers, payments, account updates, closures and estate administration.
• Provides operational support such as booking meeting rooms, processing expenses and preparing meeting packs and correspondence.
• Assists with the investigation and resolution of client queries, referring investment related queries to team members.
• Communicates with clients as required, giving accurate and up to date information whilst working within information giving limitations.
• Manages mass mailing communications processes, ensuring that correspondence is updated as required.
• Creates and amends presentations or literature for client meetings.
• Maintains team diaries, arranging meetings and organising travel.
• Manages and files correspondence and records in a timely manner ensuring that all client correspondence is saved, filed and archived accordingly to client files.
• Contributes to Client Service meetings, suggesting improvements to procedures.
• Shares best working practice with other Client Service staff.
• Office duties to include covering phones.

About you

• Some knowledge of the regulatory environment in which we operate is advantageous.
• Awareness of the products and services Rathbones provide
• Demonstrable interest in administration career and has evidence of proactively developing self.
• Experience working in a similar role in Financial Services is advantageous.
• Grade A-C at GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths.

Our offer to you

We want everyone at Rathbones to fulfil their potential, in an environment where you are proud to work and feel like you belong.

We offer a comprehensive remuneration package, which we review regularly, and benefits include:

• A company pension - 9% non-contributory or 10% if you contribute 5%
• Private medical insurance - Individual on joining, family after 1 year's service
• Life assurance - 8 x salary
• Income protection - 75 % salary
• Company share scheme
• Discretionary bonus
• Flexible holidays - purchase up to 5 additional days
• Green Car Scheme
• Family friendly policies - enhanced family leave for parents & carers
• Study support - study days and funding for courses and qualifications
• Season travel ticket loans
• Volunteering days
• Gym discounts
• Other voluntary benefits you can choose to suit you

Our employees can choose to take part in various social groups and communities to support their wellbeing, growth, development and sense of community. These include:

• Sports & Social Committees, such cricket, football, netball, running, yoga, quiz nights, charity bake sales and much more.
• Inclusion Networks that help us drive change within the organisation such as Gender Balance, Multicultural, Abilities Count, Pride, Social Mobility, Generations, Menopause Matters@Rathbones' and Armed Forces.
• The NextGen IM Network, which brings together a community of trainees from across the UK, who are all at the early stages of their careers and offers development opportunities, exposure across the business as well as peer support and connection.

Life at Rathbones

We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector, to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that motivates, develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones, we provide meaningful work, opportunities, and a voice to all.

We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer (level 2) under the UK Government scheme. This means we've signed up to a set of commitments around how we recruit, retain and develop people with disabilities. Find out more about the Government Scheme online, click here. If you require adjustments to apply for a role at Rathbones, please contact us via [e-mail] to let us know what adjustments you may need.

Mission

We believe in playing the long game. That means building consistent results, earning trust and doing the right thing - for our clients, our colleagues and the communities we're part of.

Our values shape how we work:

• We aim high
• We get it done
• We show we care
• We do the right thing