Jeanette Makings

Member Since: 26th Jan 2018
Jeanette heads up the financial education business at Close Brothers and is a well-known thought leader in the UK financial wellbeing space. She has spent her whole career working with UK businesses; first with Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young and for the last 18 years she has focussed on providing financial education and advice programmes to some of the UK’s best known employers.
Jeanette is passionate about helping employers to make a difference to employee financial wellbeing by providing financial education programmes that are accessible, that address all personal financial issues, not just debt or pensions and that inspire employees to take action and make a difference to their lives. With all the current noise around financial wellbeing, the priority for Close Brothers is to make it easy for employers to adopt a financial wellbeing strategy and ensure it reaches all employees for optimum impact.
Head of Financial Education Close Brothers
21st Sep 2018
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