Financial Planning Associate

Focus Financial Partners is a leading financial services firm specializing in integrated wealth management, family office, and business management services. They are seeking a Financial Planning Associate to provide advisor support, facilitate client relationships, and ensure the execution of client financial plans while collaborating with wealth advisors.

Responsibilities

• Provide client relationship support for advisors
• Facilitates and executes tasks and ensures prompt and complete follow through and maintains progress review meeting schedule
• Actively maintains advisors’ calendars and schedules also confirms appointments
• Prepare performance reports, including certain institutional reports
• Interfaces with clients to provide exceptional service
• Follows up with clients for additional information required by advisors
• Meets with clients as requested by advisors and follows up on client questions and concerns with advisors
• Serves as contact/resource for clients calling with questions regarding their asset management accounts
• Communicates daily with asset management team members regarding items that affect clients
• Assures that client plans are executed and modified as needed
• Attends or Performs Progress Review meetings regarding financial plans and investment accounts
• Maintains contact with client and/or advisors to review plans based on modified goals and needs of client or changes in investment markets, tax laws, retirement and insurance opportunities
• Monitors’ investment accounts to ensure planned strategy is being implemented and transfers are proceeding properly
• Facilitates new clients onboarding and account opening/transfers
• Works with advisors to onboard new clients from initiation through completion
• Requests for contracts, driver’s license copies, and other appropriate new account and/or account transfer paperwork
• Oversees transfer of assets and/or accounts to JFS
• Coordinates preparation of an Investment Policy Statement (IPS) for each account prior to assigning a model to or trading the account
• Ensure that accounts are properly set up in AdvisorView, including custom fields and sets and CRM
• Interfaces with custodians
• Communicates daily with asset management team members regarding items that affect clients
• Maintains appropriate documentation and records, as required by custodians and other regulatory bodies
• Serves as contact for National Advisors Trust Company, Fidelity, and Schwab to provide requested information as needed
• Completes administrative function related to client’s account
• Processes additional funds into existing accounts as instructed
• Provides delivery instructions for various types of assets. Processes daily deposits
• Fulfills distributions requests, including ensuring cash availability
• Processes account closures and client terminations, including launching appropriate workflows involving compliance, operations, and billing
• Completes required and requested account maintenance and account service (ex. beneficiary changes, address changes, etc.)
• Run reports and global reports in AdvisorView as needed

Skills

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university with a major in Finance
• Must be actively studying for the series 65 or CFP®
• Effectively handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Analyze and interpret business journals, technical procedures, and government regulations
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Valid driver's license
• Must be client service and team oriented
• The employee must maintain complete confidentiality regarding client names, financial information and all other matters
• The position requires occasional overtime
• Occasionally works at client locations which require the use of the incumbent's own vehicle

Benefits

• Annual cash bonus
• Comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401(k)
• Hybrid position – 3 days in office/2 days remote

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