Put simply, a career as a financial adviser can be very rewarding both personally and financially.

The role is one that will require diligence and professionalism whilst maintaining excellent interpersonal skills.

Your job will be to provide solutions to your client’s financial needs and your advice can prove very valuable to your customers and their families. You will form long-standing business relationships and many of these will become friends.

The work is varied and offers many opportunities within the Financial Services sector if you choose to specialise. You will display technical knowledge and apply sales skills.

Normal ‘office hours’ don’t always apply as you will often visit clients when they are free which could mean evening and weekends but you can also have the flexibility to fit your work around your family life.

If the idea of being your own boss appeals then being a Financial Adviser can offer that too either by being self-employed within a firm or by setting up your own firm to give advice.

If you include the fact that Financial Advisers typically earn significantly more than the national average then you have a career worth considering that will be rewarding on many different levels.