About the position
Sequoia Financial Group is a growing Registered Investment Advisor (RIA), headquartered in Northeast Ohio, offering financial planning and wealth management services. At Sequoia, we exist with a singular purpose: to enrich lives. Our values define how we behave and guide us through the pursuit of our purpose to enrich lives. At Sequoia, our core values are: Integrity, Passion, and Teamwork. We are seeking a highly motivated Financial Advisor to join our team and help us provide exceptional financial and investment planning services to our clients. As a client-facing role, you will collaborate with Managing Advisors and other service team members to develop and execute on client relationship plans, aiming to enrich their lives, earn their trust, build financial plans, and deliver results.
Responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day aspects of client engagements as a member of a team.
- Identifying and recommending appropriate asset management, financial and estate planning advice to deliver a great client experience.
- Proactively maintain client relationships through excellent client service.
- Assist or lead in the collection of financial planning data, while working with the Wealth Planning Department (WPD) to develop financial plans.
- Assist or lead in the creation of asset management reports to be delivered to clients.
- Display professional communication skills with responses to clients, advisors, and team members by phone, email, and written communications.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for client relationships.
- Coordinate with our external and internal team members to follow up on and execute advice items in a timely manner.
- Utilize Salesforce for documentation and processing of client data, tasks, financial accounts and policy adherence.
- Supervise and coordinate the preparation of meeting materials, including agendas, planning analyses, and investment materials.
- Draft emails following client meetings, clarifying understandings and outlining steps for implementation.
- Manage meeting follow up, including coordination of internal and external resources; responsible for making sure client objectives are completed.
- Attend and participate in client meetings.
- Complete client meeting notes and follow up tasks as required.
- Coordinate the execution of trade orders with the Asset Management Department (AMD).
- Perform other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.
- Develop a deeper technical expertise in general financial knowledge.
- Identify additional planning or asset management opportunities in existing client relationships.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required in Economics, Finance or related field
- CFP achieved
- Technical knowledge of all aspects of comprehensive financial planning; including: cash management, income tax planning, insurance, education planning, retirement planning, estate planning, and risk management
- Previous experience working with financial planning software and planning deliverables
- Competent with Microsoft Office suite and Client Relationship Management system such as Salesforce
- Clean Form U4 is required. U4 can not have any regulatory disclosures, client complaints, arbitrations or disclosable settlements.
