Financial Advisor - S Piper Staffing LLC

Title: Financial Advisor (CFP)

Type: Full-time / Perm / On-site

Location: Seattle, WA

Base Salary Range: $85k - $135k/annually, depending on experience.

Summary:

Our client is looking for their next Financial Advisor (CFP). In this role, Advisors are responsible for managing the day-to-day responsibilities, priorities, and workload of their client service teams. This includes providing analytical, operational, and administrative support for the acquisition, implementation, and ongoing retention of clients.

Responsibilities:

• Acts as the first point of contact for client communications.
• Strategize with the Lead Advisor to ensure responses are timely and thorough.
• Reviews current client portfolios and makes recommendations to clients in consultation with the team.
• Proactively considers both strategic and tactical opportunities around investments and other planning areas.
• Prepares comprehensive client meeting deliverables, including Cash Needs Analysis, Strategic Asset Allocation, and Vocational Freedom Analysis.
• Analyzes client data and evaluates potential planning strategies.
• Provides spreadsheet analysis on an ad-hoc basis for more advanced financial topics, such as tax loss harvesting, stock options, restricted stock, wealth transfer strategies, and risk transfer/management.
• Maintains all record-keeping related to these activities, including cost basis and other position data via portfolio management software.
• Responsible for reviewing, approving, and strategizing around trades and portfolio rebalances.
• Attends and drives client meetings; owns the execution of post-meeting actions, in conjunction with Analysts.
• Leverages internal and external resources to achieve client objectives in such areas as Investment Management, Estate Planning, Tax Planning, Risk Management, and General Planning.
• Works with Tax, Investments, and Estate Planning to determine additional levels of detail required for the client's situation.
• Seeks out leadership roles in the team and firm projects/assignments.
• Trains, guides, and mentors the team on more complex planning areas and strategic intricacies of service delivery and support.
• Maintains all aspects of the Wealth Management Scorecard (WMS), including planning topic status, score, and last date reviewed.
• Ensures content is accurate, timely, and reviewed periodically
• Crafts client meeting agenda and determines deliverables to be presented.
• Analyzes client data and develops strategies.
• Collaborates with the Lead Advisor to define both the client strategy and the most effective form of presentation.
• Prepares and finalizes all standard deliverables related to the delivery of wealth management advice, based on input from team members, including Cash Needs Analysis (CNA), Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA), and Vocational Freedom Analysis (VFA).
• Works with Tax, Investments, and Estate Planning to determine additional levels of detail required for the client's situation.
• Following client approval, works with the team to ensure that all tactical parts of the client implementation are executed timely and accurately.
• Presents ideas and concepts in an organized and effective manner.
• Attends client meetings and is expected to effectively present specific planning topics.
• Ensures all client-related action items are communicated and memorialized in the CRM.
• Partners with the Associate Advisor to achieve timely execution of intra-day requests with strict timeframes, such as trades, wire requests, and journals.
• Initiates these requests and is responsible for reviewing and approving them, ensuring completion within specified time frames.

Required Qualifications:

• 4 + years of experience in financial planning and wealth management.
• 4+ years of experience working directly with high-net-worth individual clients (with assets exceeding $3M, their families, and businesses.
• Must have very strong trust, estate, retirement, insurance, and wealth management planning and advisory experience, preferably acquired from a wealth management firm or professional financial services company.
• Undergraduate degree required / Master's degree preferred.
• CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER (CFP) credential required.
• Baseline proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite products (Word, Excel, Windows) is required.
• Expected to learn other position-related systems on the job.
• Organized and able to handle multiple client relationships with contending priorities and coordinate team member resources most effectively.
• This role is an in-office, full-time, and exempt position.
• Excellent work habits and strong organizational skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage workflows.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with clients and co-workers.
• Must have excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated teamwork mentality.
• Ability to project a capable and trustworthy image.
• Self-starter by nature who manages workload, communications, and ownership of tasks.
• Commitment to excellence and high standards.
• High degree of personal integrity, maturity, and acute attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.