Job Description

This role will serve as the primary advocate for WBS Clients, taking ownership and oversight of WBS client service and engagement. Furthermore, this role will be responsible for ensuring that WBS services are delivering positive outcomes for the WBS Clients client base in line with agreed service standards.


This role is covering a period of maternity leave for 12 months.

Key Responsibilities

Be the 'Customer Champion' for the business, acting as the voice of the customer as appropriate, internally and externally to ensure WBS consistently delivers good customer outcomes Regularly reviewing the service provided to WBS Clients and understanding of challenges faced, sharing output regularly with WBS senior management team Ownership of first line support to WBS clients for all live issues providing timely resolution & analysis of root causes. To include raising of all associated JIRA requests, tracking to completion and appropriate escalation as required Day to day management of Client engagement ensuring timely and accurate responses to client queries. Co-ordinating a response with internal stakeholders as required Deliver service to agreed SLA's and proactively engage in regular updates to clients. Ensuring applicable client SLA metrics feed into wider firm MI to evidence delivery of desired customer outcomes Support the delivery of the Client engagement strategy. Consideration should be given to factors including, delivery of good customer outcomes, service excellence, client satisfaction, applicable MI, revenue generation & cost savings. Effectively delivery will need to involve working closely with the Relationship Management, Product & Delivery functions to drive decisions and prioritisation. Ensure any customer complaints are managed accurately, logged, responded to promptly, with care and in accordance with WBS policy & regulation. Track root causes and drive change to reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence. Ownership of Bi-Annual FCA Complaint return. Support successful utilisation and adoption of Client Query Portal. Help design and format of query tickets, adherence to agreed SLA metrics on response and resolution, production of internal and external MI to evidence effective delivery of good outcomes and utilisation of MI and service related data to inform decision-making on future enhancements Stay up-to-date on the latest financial products and services to effectively communicate and recommend them to clients Partnering with Relationship Managers and other internal stakeholders ensuring issues are communicated and escalated in a timely manner both internally and directly with the clients Communicate and negotiate with clients to reach mutually beneficial solutions Engage directly with and build productive relationships with senior client stakeholders to help WBS align with their vision, strategy, and roadmaps Own development of customer journey ensuring consideration is given to the needs, characteristics, and objectives of WBS Clients and their underlying retails customers - including those with characteristics of vulnerability - and how they behave, at every stage of the customer journey Contribute to business case creation for new client propositions/change requests and gain buy in from the appropriate forums for approval, funding and change resource Created, maintain and update client user profiles as required Respond to and co-ordinate client due diligence responses ensuring timely and accurate responses. Maintain accurate and up-to-date client records in Salesforce Produce detailed analysis of service & operational issues, including provision for timely and accurate Client MI packs Use robust management information to assist in data driven planning, prioritising & decision-making escalating where appropriate Ensure proactive communication with all clients - particularly with respect to service & change Represent the function appropriately to ensure complete adherence to; and understanding of; the risk and compliance frameworks set out by the COO, CRO, and the wider Group as a whole To build and maintain a strong culture of compliance, risk management, integrity, client focus and other such Winterflood or Close Brothers values Attend industry conferences & forums as appropriate

Required Skills and Knowledge

2 years+ relevant Institutional Client Relationship Management experience ideally from the Platform/Wealth Management or Investment Management industry (although broader Financial Services experience will still be considered) Demonstrable experience providing exemplary client services, driving good consumer outcomes and delivering sustainable revenue growth Highly effective communicator with both external clients and internal stakeholders Adept at creating robust management information to assist in planning, prioritising & decision-making escalating where appropriate

Benefits

Competitive salary inclusive of discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review Work Abroad Policy for up to 15 days per year 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and additional well-being day Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year Flexible working options available, including hybrid working (60% office-based) Pension scheme up to 10% employer contribution Sharesave scheme Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover) Private health care via BUPA Employee Assistance Programme Discounted Gym Membership Variety of travel to work schemes


At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

We appreciate that from time to time, recruitment agencies will have speculative CVs that they may wish to submit to our Talent Acquisition team in relation to a specific role.

To avoid any ambiguity around fees, please note that speculative CVs received by Close Brothers, that have not been authorised in advance, by us, will be ineligible for an agency fee. Thank you.


Winterflood Business Services (WBS) is a business to business (B2B) platform provider whose award-winning service has seen us grow to over 15bn AUA with an expanding client list. Our highly skilled and experienced team is dedicated to providing the standards our clients rightly demand.


Our aim is to help solve client problems and ease their regulatory and administrative burden with secure, integrated, and bespoke end-to-end solutions to achieve their investment objectives. Execution quality and excellent service are at the core of our business, all set out in our service level agreements for full transparency.


The WBS service is provided through our EOS platform, which is a proprietary system developed by our in-house development team. EOS is built using the latest technologies and is based on micro-service architecture, making the platform easy to scale and deploy new functionality. We are also market innovators, capable of recognising unfilled needs and developing products to suit our customers' needs and changing regulatory requirements.


We became a separate division of Winterflood Securities in 2010, in response to demand from clients who were looking for 'whole of market access and 'custody services'. Our strategy remains to continue to invest in people, process, and technology to allow us to scale for the growth in our existing business, as well as taking on new clients