Associate Wealth Planner

Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure the coordination and timely completion of all necessary documents to establish/transfer new retirement business
• Coordinate and ensure the completion of forms required to establish agreements between client and a record-keeper, TPA, and custodian
• Ensure details regarding new retirement plans’ investments are accurate
• Establish retirement plans in the Fi360 ToolKit program and confirm plan specifics (TPA, record keeper, investments and other details) are accurate

• Monitor questions and responses to Plan Sponsors in a professional and timely manner concerning issues or questions
• Assist in performing research as needed to respond to retirement plan questions
• Assist in preparing materials and PowerPoint presentations for client meetings
• Maintain retirement plans’ data in Fi360 ToolKit
• Assist in distributing fund performance reports to plan sponsors 
• Monitor components of retirement plan compliance (meeting minutes, RPS Agreement, IPS, vendor forms, and others documents) and ensure all components are maintained and current
• Responsible for protecting, securing, and properly handling of all confidential client data to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to our clients

Required Skills and Experience

• Basic knowledge of investments, securities markets, economics, and portfolio management. Interest in learning basics of financial planning
• Fiduciary mentality – prioritizing clients’ interest above self-interest
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Customer service, interpersonal and listening skills to effectively communicate with customers and earn trust
• Written/verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills

• Experience or accreditation specific to the retirement plan industry
• Knowledge of Salesforce CRM software

Education and Job Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, or another related field

Core Competencies Required

• Client Focus: Personally demonstrates that external (or internal) clients are a high priority.  Identifies client needs and expectations and responds to them in a timely manner.  Anticipates and prevents delays or other things that can adversely affect the client.  Keeps clients informed about the status of pending action.
• Collaboration/Working with Others: Effectively works together with colleagues toward common goals, and/or facilitates goal achievement in others.
• Initiative: Being aware of where there are opportunities for improvement and quickly bringing them to the team’s attention.
• Innovation:  Willingness to share new ideas, including unusual ideas and ideas showing marked departure from previous practice.
• Integrity: Promotes and personally models behaviors that underscore the importance of honesty, truth, respect, and fairness in interpersonal relations; creates a supportive work environment; shows up to work and/or meetings on time, ready to act on responsibilities.
• Problem Solving: The process of working through details of a problem to reach a solution
• Striving for Excellence: Displays an on-going commitment to learning and self-improvement, with emphasis on developmental areas that are job and/or organization-relevant

Job Specific Competencies Required

• Accountability/Self-Confidence to Execute: Believes in one's own capabilities and knowledge to effect positive outcomes and even succeed where others may not and demonstrates that attitude in performing day-to-day duties.

• Attention to Detail: Consistently submits work that is free of errors or omissions and regularly demonstrates a thorough approach to accuracy of deliverables.
• Follow Up / Responsiveness: Is respectful of commitments made with others on mutually agreed upon action items, as well as prompt return of phone calls and emails.
• Oral Communication: The ability to express oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others.
• Priority Setting: Time Management: Spends time and prioritizes activities based on what’s most important, factoring both corporate, departmental, and individual objectives.
• Professional Communication Skills: Expresses ideas clearly and concisely; listens actively; and speaks and writes effectively.  Is cognizant of one’s own non-verbal behaviors.
• Written Communication: The ability to express oneself clearly in business writing.

Physical Requirements

• 
  This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.
• 
  This position may require the ability to lift up to 15 pounds.
• 
  This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

• 
  Must be 18 years of age or older.
• 
  Must be willing to submit to a background investigation; any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
• 
  Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Corient will require proof of work authorization.
• 
  Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
• 
  Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.

What You Can Expect from Us

• 
  Flexible & Hybrid Work Program 
• 
  401(k) Plan with Employer Matching 
• 
  Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient
• 
  Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance 
• 
  Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability  
• 
  Paid Maternity & Parental Leave 
• 
  Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
• 
  Dependent Care FSA 
• 
  Commuter & Transit FSA 
• 
  Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot 
• 
  Training Reimbursement  
• 
  Paid Professional Designations  
• 
  Giving back to the community - Volunteer days