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Job summary

A leading international financial advice company is recruiting Business Development Managers/Trainee Financial Advisers. This role involves providing financial planning advice to expatriates and developing client relationships. Candidates must have outstanding communication skills and a proactive attitude, with thorough training provided.

Benefits

Comprehensive training program
Performance-based commissions
Remote working flexibility

Qualifications

  • Previous experience in a Business Development Manager role preferred.
  • Experience in telesales or client-facing sales role.
  • Skilled in using Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

  • Help secure qualified appointments through networking.
  • Communicate regularly with senior advisers.
  • Proactively source leads and manage appointments.

Skills

Excellent communication skills
Time management
Networking
Sales experience

Education

At least 5 C’s in GCSE or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

  • EURO 1,500 basic salary + 50 EURO per sat meeting + 10% on gross commissions on all meetings closed from your bookings. EURO / Month
  • Salary: EURO 1,500 basic salary + 50 EURO per sat meeting + 10% on gross commissions on all meetings closed from your bookings.

Headquartered in Marbella, our client is an international financial advice company with clients in over 100 countries. They are leaders in providing fee based, transparent, qualified, and regulated financial planning advice to expatriates on retirement planning, pensions, tax efficient investments, savings plans and insurance. In recognition of this, they were the Europe winner for Best Adviser Firm Established Under Three Years in the Investment Adviser Best Practice Awards 2020 and also won “Excellence in Digital Innovation” and Excellence in Professional Development” in 2021.

Our client has a dedicated team of expert financial advisers and, through their in-house Academy, also invests in the development of individuals who are passionate about building a successful career in financial services. The company is now recruiting Business Development Managers/Trainee Financial Advisers. Candidates will be working remotely but will have regular communication with their senior adviser/s each week, as well as daily company meetings presented by one of the management team.

Our client is SEC regulated (to offer advice in USA), MIFID II regulated (to offer advice globally) and IDD regulated (to provide advice on insurance products globally).

Outstanding, clear articulate English communication skills, both verbal and written, are the most important attributes of the successful candidates.

You will be working alongside a team of appointed Financial Advisers and your main job will be to help them to secure qualified appointments (meetings) through extensive networking and area-based client research.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • If you want to work IN Spain, you would need to be a legal EU resident, or have had a work permit and/or NIE card in Spain. Non-EU passport holders will have to opt for the remote proposition.
  • You speak in a clear English accent with preferably no other discernible accent
  • Previous experience in a Business Development Manager role, preferably in financial services
  • You need to be in a time zone closely aligned to CET Spanish time.
  • Skilled in using Microsoft Office Suite
  • Excellent communication and people skills
  • Excellent time management and planning skills
  • You are currently in a telesales or client-facing sales role.
  • You have a crisp, clear and articulate English, Western-style phone manner.
  • You are highly organized
  • Ability to make high volume of phone calls to prospects.
  • Ability to proactively source leads, from the internet, from networking events to using social media and business networking sites
  • Be very motivated with a can-do attitude
  • Have lots of energy
  • Be very friendly with a vivacious, outgoing personality
  • Have a flawless work ethic
  • Have a proven ability to excel beyond targets and deadlines – which is essential to becoming successful in this role


Candidate Profile – Business Development Manager/Trainee Financial Adviser:

  • Must always act with integrity and be able to demonstrate this in every aspect of youremployment
  • Experiencethrivingwithin atarget-driven environment
  • Experience within a phone/video-based role is preferred
  • Confidence inyourcommunication and sales abilities over the phone
  • Self-motivatedand proactive when working on your own
  • Driven tocontinually strive to improve and stay focused
  • Great phone mannerandobjection handling.The ability to develop rapport, relationships, and trust
  • Demonstrate an interest in finance
  • Demonstrate the willingness and capabilities to pass exams to become a qualifiedfinancialadviser.
  • No criminal recordor unsolved debts to the tax office (background checks will be done)

Additional Requirements:

  • At least 2 years’ experience in sales related fields
  • At least 5 C’s (including Maths) in GCSE or equivalent
  • Must provideWi-Fiat own home, a laptop (for work use)and have access to a smartphone
  • Must be able to provide 2 previous references

Candidate Package:

1500 Euros per month basic salary, plus 50 Euros per sat meeting, and 10% gross comms on any closed business from meetings booked by you.

Our client will provide you with comprehensive training which will allow you to excel within your role as a financial coordinator / BDM.

IFA stage:

The main aim is becoming a fully qualified IFA and once set targets are hit, you will then be fully trained each week by your senior advisers to become an IFA. Once you’ve brought on 4m AUM, then you go on your own without any more training and will be able to hire BDMs of your own.

For every BDM that you hire yourself and train up to become an IFA, you will receive 10% gross commissions on their first 4m AUM and 5% thereafter. This is very unique as it gives you a vested interest to make the IFAs in your team as successful as possible as you’ll will earn off them for as long as possible.

Buyout plan:

There is also a buyout plan offered for if you decided to sell your book of clients.

  • Award winning financial services company, based in Marbella
  • Some business is conducted remotely e.g. via telephone and video calls
  • Their Academy provides all training, development opportunities and guidance required to train up members who may have no prior knowledge of the industry to enable them to become fully qualified financial advisers, in their own time (usually around 2-3 years)
  • The Academy is a four-staged development programme that encompasses everything necessary for this progression with target and performance measures at each stage
  • Members of the Academy are provided with close guidance and support from the senior advisers they work with until they become qualified financial advisers themselves
  • All leads are provided and are pre-qualified based on their target market

Our client have had huge success through their academy and want to train up more advisers to follow suit.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

You ideally need to be in a time zone closely aligned to CET Spanish time. Only candidates with existing experience in ideally financial telesales or any other client-facing sales role will be considered for this role.

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