Marilyn Balana

A contractual paraplanner with more than 6 years of paraplanning experience providing administrative support and delivering high quality & compliant advice documents ranging from simple to complex advice.

Paraplanner - Freelance Paraplanner (various clients)

(2021-08)

• Prepare Statement of Advice (SOA) /Record of Advice (ROA) via Advice Wizard
• Complete financial modelling via Xtools+
• Perform wealth and insurance product comparisons via Wealthsolver / Risk Researcher
• Prepare Ongoing Fee Arrangement, Client Service Agreement, and relevant fee consent forms
• Follow up fee consent acceptance to providers / clients
• JIRA clean up

Senior Paraplanner / Team Leader - ZZ Connect Inc.

(2018-09 - 2021-03)

• Plot paraplanning requests and allocate tasks to the appropriate staff and communicate the priority of tasks during daily huddles
• Ensure deadlines are met by staff and facilitate re-allocation of tasks where deadline will not be met
• Provide training in relation to production of SoAs/RoAs
• Review SOAs to ensure technical correctness in line with legislation and compliance standards
• Identify gaps in the skillset of staff and provide further training where required
• Prepare SOA/ROAs with variety of strategies across the areas of cashflow and debt management, investment, gearing, superannuation, risk, and estate planning
• Perform data gathering, product research and product comparisons where required

Financial Planning Assistant - Diane Pendle Inc.

(2016-11 - 2018-08)

Perform data gathering, product research and product comparisons where required; lodge application forms and third-party authority (via email) to providers; follow up implementation status to respective providers; XPLAN datafeed management; perform other administrative tasks the financial planner requires.

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration major in Marketing Management - Polytechnic University of the Philippines (2007 - 2011)

Diploma - Financial Planning RG 146, XPLAN Applications in Financial Planning - Monarch Institute (2016-11 - 2018-01)