Aristotle Financial Planning is an independent financial planning firm in Derby, working with clients across the East Midlands and wider UK. We help individuals, families and business owners organise and optimise their personal finances to enable awesome lives – including retirement and pension planning, investments, protection, and estate and inheritance tax planning. The firm is led by James Wallis, Chartered Financial Planner.
We're deliberately small and advice-led: no in-house products, no sales targets, no restricted panel. Independent means independent.
The role
This is the first hire of its kind, so you'll shape it. You'll take the administration off the adviser's desk and, over time, take on as much of the technical work as you want to.
Day to day:
- Preparing client meeting packs, valuations and documentation
- Keeping the CRM and client records accurate and up to date
- Processing new business, applications, transfers and policy amendments on platforms such as Fundment and Transact
- Chasing providers for information - pension schemes are slow, and part of this job is being politely relentless
- Supporting compliance: file checks, record-keeping and audit trails
- Handling client enquiries by phone and email, professionally and promptly
- Gathering and organising data ahead of advice being given
As you develop, that broadens into cash flow modelling, research, and drafting suitability reports - the paraplanning work.
Where this goes
If you want to progress, we'll back you properly:
- Exams fully funded (first attempt only, resit costs met by the candidate). R0 series through to Diploma, and on to Chartered if that's your ambition. Study support, not just the invoice paid.
- Route to Paraplanner, and to Adviser after that if that's what you want. In a small firm you can see the whole client journey from first meeting to implementation to annual review, which is how people actually learn this job.
- Direct, daily mentoring from a Chartered Financial Planner. No layers between you and the technical work.
Equally, if you want to be an excellent administrator and stay there - that's a genuinely valuable career and we'll pay for it accordingly. No pressure either way.
Flexibility
We're small, so we can be sensible about this:
- Full-time or part-time - tell us what works and we'll look at it seriously
- Roughly 50% in the Derby office, 50% wherever suits you
- Flexible hours around school runs, appointments and real life
- Compressed weeks, term-time patterns, staggered start times - all discussable
We care about the work being done well, not about where you were sitting when you did it.
What we're looking for
Financial services experience is welcome but not essential. What matters:
- Genuinely organised, with the attention to detail that regulated work demands
- Clear, confident written and verbal communication; you'll be speaking directly to clients
- Comfortable with numbers and able to spot when something doesn't look right
- Competent with Microsoft 365, particularly Excel and Word; quick to pick up new systems
- Able to prioritise and see things through without being chased
Useful if you have it: prior financial planning, wealth management, mortgage or paraplanning experience; existing CII/CISI qualifications or progress towards them; experience with adviser platforms or CRM systems.
Pay: £26,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Darley Abbey DE22 1DS
