Maddie Crisp is currently completing a Digital Marketing Level 3 apprenticeship at Urban Strides. Find out about Maddie’s apprenticeship experience!

Supporting Financial Advisers in the provision of Advice to clients, by updating client files and providing timely portfolio summaries with information details for client meetings.
Key responsibilities include:
This will involve:
- This role will be to support our brokers and help progress mortgage and protection applications through to completion
- This will involve communicating with broker, administrators, clients, lenders and other stakeholders in the house buying and refinancing process
- This will require excellent communication and IT skills and will involve data entry and checking as well
- Our administration team work closely with our brokers to provide our clients with the best possible service
- This is a fun and fast paced role, it provides many challenges and rewards on a daily basis
The progression from apprentice to administrator should take between 18 month and 2 years and offers a progression to a well-paid full-time job with Trinity
What Will You Learn:
Level 3 Financial Services Administrator
Professional qualifications within this apprenticeship are listed below – one of:
- UK financial services, regulation & ethics (CF1) – Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) CII Certificate in Insurance – Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) UK financial regulation (UKFR) – The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF) – Financial Services regulation and Ethics – Chartered Bankers Institute (CB)
- Introduction to Securities and Investment; UK financial regulation; Administration of settlements and investments – Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI)
- In addition, the role may require completion of an exam specific to the line of business worked in e.g. Life, Pensions, General Insurance, Investments, Long Term Care. These are typically provided by the CII, LIBF and CISI
- Alternatively where employers feel that there is evidence of higher academic aptitude, the apprentice could opt for a more demanding higher-level qualification that would enable fast tracking through the progression routes available on completion of this apprenticeship
- Financial services, regulation and ethics (RO1) – CII Financial services, regulation and ethics (FSRE) The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF)
Desired Skills and Personal qualities:
- Communication skills, IT skills, Desire to learn and develop, Self motivated, Able to work on own initiative, Ability to converse clearly
Qualifications:
- GCSE or equivalent Maths and English (Grade A-C/8-4 passes will be require) Essential
- A Level or equivalent Business related subjects (Grade Pass and above) Desired
- This pathway will lead to a full-time administrator role within the company. Success within a role such as these can lead to a wide range of other roles within the mortgage industry. These include underwriting and compliance roles as well as advice roles.
Application process
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- One of our team will then be in touch to talk to you a bit more about your aspirations and what happens next
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