Financial Advisor Trainee-Austin, TX

About the role

The Advisor Mastery Program (AMP) offers a comprehensive education for new Raymond James Financial Advisors through distance learning, apprenticeship, and training at the firm’s international headquarters.

Responsibilities

• Become trained and skilled to effectively and efficiently perform the Financial Advisor role.
• Meet production targets that impact overall company revenue goals.
• Develop a book of business consistent with AMP program goals for assets under management and required production.
• Provide a high level of client service.
• Manage the full scope of a client relationship by evaluating the client’s financial needs, investment opportunities, current holdings, and available investment capital.
• Help clients identify their investment objectives by effectively communicating portfolio losses when necessary, while preserving client loyalty.
• Develop client pipeline by prospecting, networking, engaging in community initiatives, centers of influence, and developing niches.
• Recommend investment products, solutions, and services that are suitable for prospects and clients based on predetermined client needs, time horizons, risk profile, and preferences.
• Solicit expertise of internal resources to identify investment opportunities and solutions for clients.
• Open, transfer, and close customer accounts.
• Maintain appropriate account records while monitoring the customer's portfolio.
• Make recommendations consistent with changes in economic and financial conditions as well as the client's needs and objectives, considering newly offered investments.
• Complete required program training and assignments, obtain mandatory industry licenses within prescribed timeframes, master assessments, and meet minimum performance and production standards.
• Stay abreast of investment products, industry rules and regulations, and financial planning.

Requirements

• Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices.
• Financial markets, banking, and financial data analysis and reporting.
• Basic principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services.
• Firm’s working structure, policies, mission, strategies, and compliance guidelines.

Skills

• Operating client relationship manager system and other required software applications to produce financial plans, correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets, and databases.
• Identifying the needs of customers through effective questioning and listening techniques.
• Organizing, managing, and tracking multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment to run an optimal practice.
• Continuously learning investment products, industry rules and regulations, and financial planning.
• Using appropriate interpersonal styles and communicating effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels.
• Keeping all appropriate parties up-to-date on decisions, changes, and other relevant information, and articulating reasons behind decisions.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Demonstrating persistence in the face of obstacles.
• Accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively in high-stress situations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university preferred with a minimum of three (3) years of relevant working experience, demonstrating achievement in sales (preferably intangible) or business environment, or an equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training as approved by Human Resources.
• SIE required provided that an exemption or grandfathering cannot be applied.
• Series 7 and Series 66 or the ability to obtain them within four (4) months from the start of the program.
• Life, Health and Variable Annuity or the ability to obtain within six (6) months from the start of the program.

Benefits

The Advisor Mastery Program (AMP) offers a comprehensive education for new Raymond James Financial Advisors through distance learning, apprenticeship, and training at the firm’s international headquarters.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Work schedule is flexible and may vary based on the needs of the program and the individual.