Fiduciary Operations Director

Kestra • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Bluespring Wealth Partners (Bluespring) is part of Kestra Holdings, an industry-leading wealth management platform for independent financial professionals nationwide. Bluespring acquires successful, growing wealth management businesses from inside and outside of the Kestra Holdings ecosystem, promoting advisor autonomy and entrepreneurship while providing operation scale and efficiencies for its partner firms. Our advisor-focused culture is built on innovation and advocacy, enabling advisors to offer comprehensive securities and investment advisory solutions to their clients.
Lead with Purpose. Partner with Impact.
The Fiduciary Operations Director will lead the firm’s oversight program across trade allocation & aggregation, best execution, client profile/suitability, and pricing & valuation. This is a high-impact, hands-on role at the intersection of trading, investment governance, and operational risk that is ideal for someone who has “sat close to the trade,” understands how investment decisions are made, and can build durable controls, reporting, and automation to scale.
This role will report to the Chief Compliance Officer while the oversight program is built. The successful candidate will play a key role in managing the overall risk framework of Bluespring Wealth and enhancing the firm’s regulatory infrastructure.
This leader will oversee and continuously improve controls around block trading, allocations, and aggregation logic. You will design and maintain a best execution oversight program aligned to the firm’s multi-custodian and multi-CIP operating model, including periodic reviews, escalation standards, and documentation. Oversight of the controls for client profile monitoring (objectives, risk tolerance, constraints, liquidity needs) and establishment of monitoring, testing, and exception escalation for profile changes, restrictions, concentration limits, and guideline adherence.
The Fiduciary Operations Director is responsible for oversight of valuation, including oversight of pricing sources and security-level valuation governance at custodians, internal fair valuation processes, and exception handling (e.g., stale prices, vendor conflicts, hard-to-price assets). You will coordinate with investment managers to validate methodologies and document approvals, particularly for alternatives or less liquid holdings where pricing challenges are more prevalent.
This role will create and maintain governance routines (e.g., quarterly best ex reporting packages, trend analysis, and anomaly escalation), consistent with the risk mitigation reporting expectations found in trading operations environments. This includes building dashboards and exception queues to flag anomalies and support timely remediation—consistent with trading operations’ focus on data integrity and controls.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or other related work experience.
• Hands-on trading experience (execution, blocks/allocations, OMS workflows), investment committee exposure (manager research, product approval committtees), or other governance forum experience involving investment selection and monitoring.
• Demonstrated ability to design controls, write procedures, and run recurring oversight/testing programs (exception management, root-cause analysis, remediation).
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in trading operations, portfolio operations, investment management, financial planning, or related oversight roles.
• Advanced Excel skills including the ability to write and maintain VBA macros / Visual Basic automation (building tools, validations, exception queues, and reporting packages)

Nice To Haves

• Relevant licenses and/or certifications are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish a control framework and operating cadence across trading oversight, suitability controls, and valuation governance (metrics, KRIs, documented procedures, issue management, audit readiness).
• Lead cross-functional reviews (trading, investment committee stakeholders, compliance, ops, custodians/vendors) and drive decisions from findings to implementation.
• Develop automation and reporting in Excel using VBA/macros to reduce manual work and improve reliability.
• Maintain tight documentation, including exception logs, approvals, testing evidence, and management reporting suitable for exams/audits.
• Create and maintain governance routines, including presenting dashboards and reporting packages to senior governance committees.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits with a large employer (over 1600 employees nationwide)
• 401(k), health insurance, and a competitive benefits package
• Work in a supportive, collaborative environment committed to professional excellence
• Help clients navigate meaningful financial decisions with confidence
• Opportunities for training, development, and long-term growth within the firm
• Tuition reimbursement for qualified expenses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees