The Business Processing Team Leader is responsible for leading and managing the national Business Processing Team — the specialist back-office function within Central Business Operations that owns all post-acceptance processing across the Wealth Advice Division.
The role exists to ensure that every new business case is processed accurately, on time, and to a consistent standard across all 22,500 client households. The Team Leader is the single point of accountability for best execution compliance, fee accuracy, IO data integrity, and tracker management — and is the primary link between the Business Processing function and Central Business Operations leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership and People Management
- Lead, manage, and develop the Business Processing Team.
- Set clear performance expectations for every team member against the six-step processing standard.
- Conduct regular one-to-ones, performance reviews, and development conversations.
- Monitor individual and team throughput, quality, and SLA compliance on a daily basis.
- Manage absence, capacity, and workload allocation across the team.
- Support the onboarding and training of new team members onto all relevant platforms and processes.
Processing Quality and Oversight
- Own and maintain the six-step processing standard — Check, Fees, Submit, Monitor, Update, Close — ensuring every case follows the same process without exception.
- Conduct weekly audits of completed cases to verify quality, accuracy, and data cleanse compliance.
- Ensure that Step 6 record closure and IO data cleanse is completed on every case on the day of settlement.
- Identify and address recurring error types through targeted training and process updates.
- Act as the escalation point for all processing exceptions, provider delays, and compliance concerns.
- Ensure best execution timelines are monitored and met on every transfer case.
Case Tracker and Visibility
- Own and maintain the central case tracker, ensuring every live case has a current status at all times.
- Ensure all Client Service colleagues have accurate, up-to-date visibility of every case in their adviser's pipeline.
- Escalate any case where best execution, fee accuracy, or data quality is at risk.
Performance Reporting and MI
- Produce regular MI for the Head of Central Operations covering case volumes, same-day submission rates, error rates, fee accuracy, record closure rates, and best execution compliance.
- Identify trends in processing data that indicate systemic issues — with providers, case types, or the submission process — and raise them proactively.
- Provide input into the post-pilot review of the Business Processing model, including actual case time data and throughput figures.
Process Improvement and Technology
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve processing speed, accuracy, and consistency.
- Work with Business Operations and technology teams to identify candidates for straight-through processing automation on the Third platform.
- Maintain up-to-date process documentation, submission guides, and training materials for all platforms in scope.
- Support the consolidation of business onto the Third platform, ensuring team processes are updated as provider platforms change.
Critical Knowledge
- Investment platform processing, new business submission, and provider transfer processes within Wealth.
- IO or equivalent back-office CRM and portfolio management system.
- Best execution obligations in a regulated advice context.
- Quality control and audit frameworks in high-volume operational environments.
- Performance MI design and reporting in a processing or operations function.
Critical Skills
- Proven ability to lead and manage a small specialist team in a regulated financial services environment.
- Strong quality control and accuracy management capability.
- Ability to design and maintain repeatable processes that scale with volume.
- Clear, confident communication with operational colleagues and senior stakeholders.
- Calm, delivery-focused leadership style suited to high-volume, deadline-driven environments.
Experience Required
- Experience in a financial services operations, processing, or back-office role.
- Experience managing or leading a small team in a regulated environment.
- Demonstrable track record of maintaining accuracy and quality under volume pressure.
- Experience working with investment platforms and provider submission processes.
- Experience producing performance MI and using data to manage operational quality
Qualifications (Essential and Desirable)
Essential
- Strong general education with substantial relevant experience in financial services operations or processing within a regulated environment.
Desirable
- Relevant financial services qualifications (e.g. CF1, R01, or equivalent).
- Experience working with the Third platform or equivalent wrap platform.
- Leadership or operational management development
Key Interfaces (Internal and External)
- Head of Central Operations — direct line manager; performance reporting, escalation, strategic input
- Business Processing Administrators — direct reports
- Client Service colleagues across the Wealth Advice Division — receive packaged cases; provide tracker updates
- Wealth Advice Division leadership — regular MI reporting; exception escalation
- Provider platforms (Third and others) — oversight of submissions and SLA performance
- Business Operations — process governance, compliance oversight, technology roadmap
Other Information
- Full-time, permanent role
- Hybrid working with flexibility based on delivery needs
- National travel as required