Careers for experienced independent financial advisers
We are actively looking for experienced independent financial advisers to join our team.
Lighthouse Financial Advice offers the stability associated with businesses with the scale and financial strength of Lighthouse Group. We are committed to providing our advisers with a continuous stream of leads, devoting more time, effort and resources to generating leads and business for our advisers than many other organisations. This is demonstrated by our results.
- We generate around 9,000 leads a year for advisers.
- We book approximately 8,000 appointments for advisers each year.
- Over 50% of our turnover is a direct result of the leads we generate for our advisers.
- We organise over 700 seminars and surgeries a year for new customers on issues such as retirement, investment and redundancy.
- Each year more than 5,000+ people attend one of our seminars or surgeries.
Join Lighthouse Financial Advice
As an adviser with Lighthouse Financial Advice you will benefit from:
- Working from home.
- Self-employed status, with the tax advantages that brings.
- Weekly commission payments (including fund-based trail).
- The rate of commission you will be paid depends on:
- the volume of business you generate
- whether the business is a result of a lead generated by Lighthouse Financial Advice, or through your own connections and initiatives.
- Being part of a regional team, supported by your team manager and head office staff.
- Comprehensive professional indemnity cover:
- discounted PI is included as part of your package, and as long as you follow our guidelines and procedures and have not acted negligently or fraudulently you will potentially not even have to contribute to any excess should a complaint against you result in compensation.
- a comprehensive and highly successful compliance programme. You will have a nominated compliance supervisor, who will support you on an ongoing basis.
- Active support to help you achieve QCA Level 4.
- Ongoing training and development
- We offer a full events programme, which includes business development days, professional standards initiatives and team meetings.
- Stationery and corporate literature
- We provide you with basic stationery (letterheads, fact-finds, client agreements, pre-paid envelopes, report covers, presentation folders, etc) as part of your package, without charge.
- Business processing technology.
- Free AIFA membership.
Selection and induction process
Our selection process is designed to recruit advisers of the right calibre and suited to Lighthouse Financial Advice’s environment. You should be already qualified to QCA Level 4 or on track to qualify by December 2012. Assuming you meet our initial criteria, you will be asked to complete our comprehensive selection and induction procedure. This comprises:
- at least two formal interviews
- completion of an application form, credit checks and industry/personal references going back up to ten years
- pre-induction training and company orientation
- a one-day induction course where you will be tested on your product knowledge, anti-money laundering regulations, treating customers fairly and data protection. You will be asked to conduct a fact find and a sales presentation role play. You may attend an optional day's training on our online business processing system.
Once you have successfully completed the above and assuming your application is approved by the FSA, you will be appointed as one of our advisers.
The selection and induction process generally takes around a month or so to complete, during which time you will also be able to familiarise yourself with office and other procedures, eg report templates and contact with local representatives of product providers. Your team manager will be on hand to guide you through the process, help you complete some cases to get you off to a flying start and generally support you through your early days at Lighthouse Financial Advice.
Take the next step
To apply use the links in the 'Take the next step' box at the top right of this page.