Wealth Management Associate (Advisor Track)

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary point of contact and owner for day-to-day client service needs, including account maintenance, cashiering, scheduling, and inbound request triage.
• Deliver timely, professional, and solutions-oriented service that reinforces trust and confidence with clients.
• Communicate clearly and consistently with clients, Advisors, Operations, and custodians to ensure seamless execution.
• Escalate planning or advice-related matters appropriately while maintaining ownership of follow-through.
• Support Advisors in preparation for client meetings, including agenda development, data gathering, and pre-meeting analysis.
• Maintain accurate meeting notes, action items, and implementation tracking in the firm’s CRM and planning systems including Advyzon and Jump Notes.
• Aid in financial planning workflows (data entry, plan updates, scenario modeling requests, implementation coordination).
• Participate in client meetings as appropriate to build experience observing and contributing to planning conversations.
• Execute account opening and documentation with a high standard of accuracy and completeness.
• Support implementation of planning recommendations (transfers, beneficiaries, systematic strategies, consolidations).
• Identify process inefficiencies and contribute to continuous improvement of client service and planning workflows.

Requirements

• What Success Looks Like (First 12–18 Months): Clients experience consistent, proactive, and highly responsive service. Advisors are fully prepared for meetings, with clean data, clear agendas, and reliable follow-up execution. Planning tasks are completed accurately with increasing independence and judgment. Implementation items move quickly and cleanly with minimal errors or rework. The Associate is viewed internally as dependable, organized, and trusted with increasingly complex client work.

Career Development Path

• Phase 1: Wealth Management Associate (~0–18 months)
• Focus on service excellence, planning workflow mastery, meeting preparation, and implementation execution. Build judgment, confidence, and consistency before expanding advisory responsibilities.
• Phase 2: Senior Associate / Planning-Focused Associate (~18–36 months)
• Take ownership of more complex planning support, plan updates, and client follow-up conversations. Participate more actively in client meetings; begin handling defined planning components independently. Limited relationship responsibility introduced selectively based on readiness.
• Phase 3: Associate Advisor (~Timeline based on readiness, not tenure)
• Co-lead portions of client relationships. Deliver planning recommendations under supervision. Progress toward lead advisor responsibilities as experience, judgment, and client readiness align.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• About 2–3 years of full-time experience in a client-facing financial services role (internship experience considered).
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through discipline.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a client-first mindset.
• Comfort working in a collaborative, fast-paced advisory environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word & Excel; ability to learn CRM and planning platforms quickly. Experience with Advyzon, eMoney, Fidelity Wealthscape, Holistiplan all are a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

• CFP® professional associate role with defined advisor-track progression.
• Base salary: $70,000–$90,000, commensurate with experience and role scope.
• Salary progression to be laid out in line with development path.
• Incentive Compensation: additional incentive compensation equal to ~10% of base salary for on target performance and attainment of team and personal goals.
• 401(k) plan Full employer paid medical, dental, short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance benefits.
• Ongoing professional development and continuing education support.
• Paid vacation and flexible personal day policy, including remote work as needed.