Wealth Manager
Finsbury Associates
Total years of experience :10 years, 4 Months
Working with HNW individuals on ensuring time spent in UAE is spent efficiently and money is kept safe in offshore tax havens
•Business development through workshops, door knocking, referrals, networking events to gain clients
•Presenting at workshops about Insurance and Sharia Law and how it effects families in UAE
•Analysing financial situations in terms of retirement, tax, insurance, portfolio bonds, education plans as well as wills and guardianship.
•Working closely with financial corporations such as Friends providence, Generali, Zurich and Cannacord Genuity
Key Achievements
•Relocating to Dubai and working in an unknown industry and gaining knowledge quickly on products
Handle various other ad-hoc tasks and administrative tasks for management team
•Assisting in Compiling spreadsheets using SAP for businesses and banks to investigate liability issues
•Investigating jurisdiction issues and authorizing case refunds if banks are liable
•Update records on Clipper and maintain accurate records
•Liaising with adjudicators and senior ombudsman
•Maintaining team mailbox
•Preparing material for team meetings
Key achievements
•Updating complainants on status of their case and sending out 3000 letters a week
•Assisting in resolving over a 1000 case fee disputes a week with banks and CMC's such as Legal and General, Nationwide, Citi, HSBS, Barclays, Bank of America, Lloyds TSB, Santander, RBS, Capital One and more.
Dairy Management of meetings- scheduling appointments
•Assisting workforce with travel arrangements and expenses.
•Filing, scanning and other secretarial work
•Dealing with post and distributing to employees and managers
•Handling telephone calls and emails
•Assisting teams in any ad- hoc tasks
•Meet and greet new starters
Key Achievement
•Pushing myself to work 7 days a week to complete work and help staff.
•Ability to work resourcefully in demanding environments.
•Ability to prioritise accordingly
Answer inbound calls from BMW/ Alphabet customers
•Check customer information on relevant system and complete data protection security checks
•Arrange collection date of the vehicle and explain the process
•Document any relevant notes
•Process written requests for vehicle collections by checking information supplied and makes outbound Calls to customers to arrange vehicle collection, inputting details on the BMW Seal system.
Key achievement
•Adapting to new environments and learning the system in a timely manner
Working on the FCA'S high profile Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) project where we had the mammoth task of authorizing over 1000 fund managers before the end of the transitional period of 22nd July 2014.
•Reviewing and assessing firms applications to make sure they comply with the directive
•Chasing firms missing information, making sure cases were complete and looking through the firm's business plan, capital requirements and other documents ensuring they are compliant.
•Ensuring there is a clear correspondence trail with all cases and uploading sensitive information onto FCA systems.
•Working knowledge of all FCA systems including Tardis, Livelink and others. Experience in maintaining incoming and outgoing team mailboxes.
•Liaising with other case officers, triage team and heads of department in ensuring all objectives are met and ensuring the work stream is proficient.
•JML- maintaining leavers, starters and new management changes for team
•Data migration - uploading 1000 firms on to Tardis
•Liaising with firms regarding AIF schedules and dealing with complex queries regarding the schedules
•Working in Retail banks- diary management, agendas, booking meeting rooms, recruiting candidates via i-Grasp and booking travel and accommodation
•Working with complaints from firms regarding regulations within the FCA, misconduct, lack of air liaising with lawyers within the firm regarding the complaints.
Key achievements
•Authorising over 700 cases
•Working for the number one regulator for authorisations under AIFMD.
•Uploading 1000 firms on to Tardis (in house system) in 3 months