Implementation & Proposal Analyst

Sequoia Financial Group Llc•Dublin, OH

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Sequoia Financial Group is a growing Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) in Northeast Ohio, providing financial planning and wealth management. The company's purpose is to enrich lives, guided by values of Integrity, Passion, and Teamwork. Sequoia promises team members growth opportunities, aiming to be a place where they can refine their professional mission and build a long-term career. The Implementation & Proposal Analyst is part of the Investment Implementation department, reporting to the Investment Implementation Lead. This role serves as the subject matter expert for investment proposals, responsible for their content, standards, and accuracy. The analyst also supports the investment of client assets during onboarding. This position is crucial as it's involved in the initial explanation of the firm's investment strategy to clients and its implementation in their portfolios.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
Five or more years of experience in financial services, investment operations, portfolio implementation, investment analysis, or a comparable analytical role.
Direct experience building investment proposals or client-facing investment presentations in an RIA, wealth management, or asset management setting.
Working knowledge of asset allocation, portfolio construction, and the mechanics of taxable and tax-deferred accounts.
Demonstrated ownership of a recurring, deadline-driven process where errors are visible to clients.
Organized with strong attention to detail and accuracy in a deadline-driven environment.
Excellent analytical, logical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present investment concepts clearly to advisors and in client-facing materials.
Ability to manage multiple concurrent requests and prioritize against advisor and client deadlines.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

Experience with proposal, analytics, or risk-profiling tools such as Nitrogen, Morningstar Direct, or YCharts.
Experience with trading and rebalancing platforms such as Tamarac or Orion.
Familiarity with tax-aware transition analysis and tax-lot management.
Exposure to separately managed accounts, model marketplaces, or alternative investment vehicles.
Experience serving as the process owner or subject matter expert for a firm-wide workflow, including training others on it.
Salesforce experience.
Progress toward the CFA or CFP designation.

Responsibilities

Serve as Sequoia's subject matter expert on investment proposals, owning the proposal methodology, standards, and technology, and acting as the reference point for advisors, marketing, compliance and the Investment Implementation team on what the process supports.
Build investment proposals for prospective and existing client relationships, translating advisor input on client objectives, constraints, and existing holdings into a recommended allocation drawn from the firm's strategies.
Model the tax and transition impact of a proposed strategy before it is presented, including embedded gains, cost basis, holding periods, concentrated positions, and account-level restrictions.
Train, support, and review the work of other Investment Implementation team members who build proposals, to ensure a consistent deliverable.
Maintain proposal templates, analytics and comparison exhibits, and standard disclosure language, coordinating with Compliance on required language and with Marketing on presentation standards.
Evaluate and adopt technology that strengthens the proposal process, improving accuracy, turnaround, and the quality of the client-facing deliverable.
Manage the proposal queue against turnaround expectations, keeping advisors informed on status and escalating capacity conflicts and time-sensitive requests to the Investment Implementation Lead.
Partner with Portfolio Strategists and Investment Research on strategy selection questions, custom or non-standard requests, and proposals that fall outside the published lineup.
Support onboarding of newly funded relationships, inventorying transferred positions and confirming account structure, strategy assignment, and client-specific restrictions before assets are invested.
Build and execute transition plans that move client assets into the agreed strategy, sequencing activity with attention to tax consequences, wash sales, holding periods, and settlement timing.
Place and confirm trades in the firm's trading and rebalancing platform, verifying post-trade that portfolios are aligned to the assigned model or transitioning to target.
Serve as an operational point of contact for advisors on proposal and onboarding questions, timelines, and status.
Provide implementation coverage across the broader Investment Implementation team, including SMA and Sentinel workflows, during peak cycles and absences.
Support proposal and onboarding volume associated with new client relationships and firm acquisitions.
Identify and drive improvement and automation across proposal and implementation workflows, reducing manual steps and cycle time.
Document and maintain procedures for proposal and implementation workflows as a current operating record rather than a one-time exercise.
Maintain compliance with all internal policies and procedures.
Perform other related duties as assigned.