Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Subjects Completed
References
Timeline
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Sulo Kulendran

West Pennant Hills,NSW

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Aged Care Financial Specialist

Alteris Financial Group
04.2018 - Current

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Senior Financial Advisor/ Mentor

St George Bank(BT Advice)
08.2013 - 03.2018
  • Provides holistic financial solutions and comprehensive financial advice to clients from initial meeting through to implementation and review
  • Growing our client base through networking and referrals and identify cross-selling opportunities
  • Demonstrated business development capabilities, strong business acumen and interpersonal skills
  • Exceeded revenue targets and business expectations
  • Ability to lead business partners towards success
  • Ability to build strong, trusting relationships with business/ referral partners within the retail banking network
  • Empower and provide tailored coaching to colleagues to become accountable for their own business success, to improve the relationships with referral partners and motivating the team towards achieving set targets
  • Manage the relationships with the referral partners, ensuring unity in progressing towards becoming a successful branch
  • Promote a culture of high performance in order to drive business outcomes
  • Working closely with the Branch Manager to ensure alignment of strategic targets
  • Ensure all legislative and compliance obligations are met
  • Creating an environment of an open door policy, to ensure seamless communication with internal and external staff
  • Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders at all levels to ensure the efficient and effective running of the business
  • Communicate with all relevant stakeholders in a professional and ethical manner to develop a shared understanding of the businesses and a clear and consistent message about how and what the business is trying to achieve
  • Support and develop business partners to be customer focused and outcome driven
  • Develop strategies to improve the productivity and efficiency of the business partners
  • Work closely with referral partners to develop the value, consistency and quality of the referrals generated
  • Managing and monitoring the daily operations of the branch, to improve the productivity and efficiency of existing referral partners
  • Work collaboratively with the business units to increase process efficiencies.

Financial Planner – Holistic Advice

ANZ Financial Planning
08.2009 - 08.2013
  • Solid technical knowledge across Investment, Superannuation, Insurance (personal and risk), Retirement Planning and Estate Planning
  • Solid knowledge of financial planning products and processes
  • Sound understanding and knowledge of compliance requirements
  • Ability to analyse clients financial and risk requirements
  • Providing holistic financial solutions and comprehensive financial advice to clients from initial meeting through to implementation and review
  • Ability to formulate tailored strategies and develop tailored financial plans for a wide range of clients
  • Consistently exceed sales targets for financial planning and outperform in referral building benchmarks
  • Develop new business from internal and external sources, such as accountants and mortgage brokers
  • Implementation of retirement and investment planning advice, wealth creation, income streams, gearing, taxation and estate planning advice
  • Sustain strong long term relationships with clients as well as business partners within the organisation to ensure a constant flow of new business opportunities
  • Identifying opportunities to cross sell banking products
  • Fully compliant with all legislative and AFSL requirements
  • Conduct ongoing training (technical and sales focus) for business partners within the organisation.

Financial Planner and Risk Insurance Specialist

Professional Investment Services (Piccadilly Financial Group)
08.2006 - 07.2009
  • Solid technical knowledge across Investment, Superannuation, Insurance, Retirement Planning and Estate Planning
  • Solid knowledge of Insurance (personal and business risk) products and processes
  • Sound understanding and knowledge of compliance requirements
  • Conducting interviews and meetings with clients and referral sources
  • Providing holistic financial solutions to clients from initial meeting through to implementation and review
  • Ability to analyse clients financial and risk requirements
  • Ability to formulate tailored strategies and develop tailored financial plans for HNW clients via a diverse range of products and services
  • Involved in fund manager meetings, insurance and product research
  • Ability to analyse financial products, interpret and explain the product
  • Mentored and trained by senior financial advisors to attain sales targets
  • Liaising with clients on the implementation and management of their portfolios
  • Participate in team product knowledge sessions
  • Participate in ongoing industry training.

Education

Graduate Diploma in Finance -

University of Technology, Sydney
06.2016

Bachelor of Science – Computing Science/Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice -

University of Technology Sydney

Accredited Aged Care Professional - Aged Care Specialist

Aged Care Steos
Sydney, NSW
05.2018

FASEA Adviser Exam Completion - Financial Adviser Standards And Ethics Authority (

FASEA Standards Authority
Sydney
06.2020

Advanced Diploma Financial Services (Financial Planning) -

Kaplan Professional
06.2010

ASX Listed Product Adviser (ALPA) -

Kaplan Professional
02.2009

PS146 (RG146) compliant Diploma of Financial Services (Financial Planning) -

University of Technology Sydney
06.2006

Cheltenham Girls high School -

Skills

  • Coin
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Powerpoint
  • Microsoft Visio

Subjects Completed

  • Financial Management
  • Financial Modelling
  • Capital Markets
  • Accounting
  • Economics
  • Investment Management
  • Corporate Finance
  • Investment
  • Insurance
  • Estate Planning
  • Superannuation and Retirement Planning

References

Available on request

Timeline

Aged Care Financial Specialist

Alteris Financial Group
04.2018 - Current

Senior Financial Advisor/ Mentor

St George Bank(BT Advice)
08.2013 - 03.2018

Financial Planner – Holistic Advice

ANZ Financial Planning
08.2009 - 08.2013

Financial Planner and Risk Insurance Specialist

Professional Investment Services (Piccadilly Financial Group)
08.2006 - 07.2009

Graduate Diploma in Finance -

University of Technology, Sydney

Bachelor of Science – Computing Science/Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice -

University of Technology Sydney

Accredited Aged Care Professional - Aged Care Specialist

Aged Care Steos

FASEA Adviser Exam Completion - Financial Adviser Standards And Ethics Authority (

FASEA Standards Authority

Advanced Diploma Financial Services (Financial Planning) -

Kaplan Professional

ASX Listed Product Adviser (ALPA) -

Kaplan Professional

PS146 (RG146) compliant Diploma of Financial Services (Financial Planning) -

University of Technology Sydney

Cheltenham Girls high School -

Sulo Kulendran