Careers at Wren Sterling
We’re growing and developing talent from within to bring through the next generation of Financial Advisers, Support Teams and Central Services
Our recruitment brochure
Joining Wren Sterling
At Wren Sterling, we want to help you achieve and succeed. If you hold great customer outcomes close to your heart, then we want to hear from you.
You don’t need to tick all our boxes, as long as you have a passion for helping and supporting customers with their needs and support them in
meeting their financial objectives.
Why Work For Wren Sterling?
Working at Wren Sterling will help you build your career, whatever stage you are at. Our investment in training and personal development, alongside a culture that celebrates high quality service and values doing what we say we’re going to do, means you’re in the right place.
For financial planners, if you’re a forward-thinking with a true passion for client service, a hunger for unlimited earnings potential, who wants the full support of a national business that is geared up, innovative and going places, then Wren Sterling is the company for you.
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Value to clients
Our service is immensely valuable to our clients. The demand for financial advice will grow and become more relevant to a wider cross-section of society. Wren Sterling is set up to attract more clients and help more people make the increasingly difficult financial decisions facing them.
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Quality of service and advice
We genuinely care about the quality of our service and advice. We want to attract the very best advisers and give them all the support they need to grow with us. That includes personal development, admin support, tools, IT equipment, and marketing, to make sure advisers spend more time with clients.
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Innovation
We’ve secured enviable national introducer arrangements with major Accountancy, Insurance and Law firms that are just waiting to be maximised. We also recognise that clients want to interact with their Financial Adviser in new ways, so we’ve got video conferencing facilities available and a dedicated telephone advice service.
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Diversity and Inclusion
Wren Sterling welcomes application from people in all walks of life. Our diverse workforce gives us diversity of thought, making us a more entrepreneurial business. Furthermore, it enables our people to connect with the diverse communities in which we operate.
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Employee Benefit Trust
We want our employees to benefit from the contribution they make to the success of the business. We’ve established a Discretionary Trust that ensures that employees receive a share of profits made at each reinvestment point.
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Perks
We offer flexible benefits, a day off for your birthday, a casual dress code in the office for non-client facing staff, access to private medical insurance, an electric car scheme and group income protection, critical illness and life insurance, with more benefits added each year.
Candidate Privacy Notice
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Candidate Privacy Notice
Candidate Privacy Notice
Wren Sterling (“we”, “us”) is the data controller for personal data you provide as part of your job application. This notice explains how we use it.
What we collect
Your application data may include contact details, CV/application content, employment and education history, interview notes, assessment results, and (where relevant) diversity monitoring responses, which are always voluntary and processed as set out below.Why we use it
We process your data to assess your suitability for the role, manage the recruitment process, communicate with you about your application, and comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including, where applicable, obligations under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) for certain roles.Our legal basis
- Contract / pre-contract steps — to assess and progress your application.
- Legitimate interests — to manage and improve our recruitment process.
- Legal obligation — for regulatory and employment-law compliance.
- Special category data (e.g. diversity monitoring) — your explicit consent, where collected.
Retention
- Unsuccessful applications: retained for 12 months from the date of decision, then deleted or anonymised.
- Speculative/ad-hoc CVs (no role applied for): retained for 12 months from receipt.
- Successful candidates: application data forms part of your employment record and is retained per our employee records retention schedule.
Background screening
We do not conduct background screening during recruitment. For successful candidates, standard pre-employment background screening is carried out as part of onboarding, in line with our regulatory obligations. A separate notice covering this is provided at offer stage.Sharing your data
We may share your data internally with hiring managers and HR, and with our HR systems provider acting as a data processor on our behalf. We do not sell your data or share it with third parties for marketing purposes.Your rights
Under UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict use of your data, and to withdraw consent where consent is the basis for processing (e.g. diversity monitoring). -
Contact us about your data
Contact us about your data
- Data Protection Officer: Elaine Batchelor – Elaine.batchelor@wrensterling.com
- HR Team: HRenquiries@wrensterling.com
- Wren Sterling, Human Resources Department, 13-19 Derby Road, Nottingham, NG1 5AA
- You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you believe your data has been mishandled.