Integrated Financial Planning Associate

ExtensisHR•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Integrated Financial Planning Associate integrates sales execution, risk-product support, financial planning, and investment operations to help advisors achieve production, planning, and client-service goals. The Associate serves as a central partner to advisors by delivering high-quality risk, investment, and planning work while maintaining operational excellence and collaborating with underwriting, Home Office, and internal teams. This is a full-time position supporting advisors through integrated risk, investment, planning, and operational services.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Experience in financial planning support, investment operations, insurance operations, advisor support, or a related financial-services role.
Working knowledge of life, disability income, and long-term care insurance workflows, financial-planning deliverables, and investment account servicing.
Strong organizational and case-management skills, including the ability to manage multiple deadlines, requirements, and advisor relationships.
Exceptional attention to detail, follow-through, and commitment to accurate, compliant work.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and related financial-services systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience using Morningstar, Envestnet, NetX360, AppsLive, ExamOne, or comparable platforms.
Experience preparing insurance illustrations, supporting underwriting, servicing investment accounts, facilitating money movement, or executing trades.
Applicable Life/Health insurance and/or securities registrations (SIE, S6/7/63), or the ability to obtain required credentials within 6–12 months.
Experience supporting multiple advisors or teams in a high-volume, service-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

Create risk-production illustrations for life, disability income, and long-term care insurance.
Prepare feed lists, such as birthday and age-change lists, to support proactive advisor outreach to clients.
Schedule medical examinations using AppsLive, ExamOne, and other approved resources.
Pre-check, submit, and track applications, aiming for 100% process reliability.
Liaise between advisors and Home Office underwriting, monitor Daily Sales Reports, and secure outstanding requirements.
Initiate eSign processes, track Policy Delivery Acknowledgements, process policy-owner service requests, and prepare policy-change estimates.
Maintain Insurance Service Accounts and process EFT changes and ownership or beneficiary updates.
Create financial plans and investment proposals using Morningstar, Envestnet, NetX360, and other approved planning tools.
Provide case consultations and strategic planning insights to help advisors prepare for client conversations.
Open and maintain investment accounts, facilitate money movement, and execute trades in accordance with approved procedures.
Track assets and transactions through systematic reporting and process registration, representative-code, address, and beneficiary changes.
Ensure investment paperwork and documentation are accurate, complete, and compliant.
Build close, responsive, and supportive working relationships with advisors.
Collaborate with mentors, District Directors, Home Office teams, and internal partners to apply best practices and resolve issues.
Support onboarding of new advisors to the services and financial-planning resources.
Participate in meetings to stay aligned with productivity and office growth goals.
Cross-train across risk, investment, and planning functions to expand team capacity and provide consistent service.
Maintain advisor and subscriber satisfaction scores of at least 80%.
Deliver planning, risk, and investment work within 24 to 48 hours.
Maintain at least 95% accuracy across submitted work.
Support achievement of the office’s first-year commission goal.
Improve advisor productivity and confidence, strengthen advisor-client relationships, and reduce errors through smoother workflows.