Director, Financial Planning
About this role
As a Senior Financial Advisor, you'll provide objective, fee-based advice and asset management, with an aim to help our clients build a better financial future. We are a fiduciary and neither the firm nor our advisors seek or accept financial incentives, commissions or third-party compensation for any of the investments or recommendations we offer our clients. In addition, you will engage in NO marketing activities. Your role will be to serve the client's best interests, providing outstanding financial advice to those who request it. You'll receive continuing advisor education on topics vital to our clients. You'll have a dedicated team of Client Service Managers and innovative retirement planning tools and software, to help you deliver the right advice to your clients.
We are looking for an experienced Financial Advisor with a consistent track record of effectively serving clients and able to run a growing practice ultimately helping our clients achieve their financial goals. If you can effectively evaluate client situations, analyze their needs, develop and present a compelling set of recommendations, and establish effective relationships, this may be the opportunity for you!
Responsibilities:
- Serve the client's best interests, providing outstanding financial advice guidance
- Effectively evaluate client situations and analyze their needs
- Develop and present a compelling set of recommendations
- Adept at building positive relationships with clients
- Skilled at influencing clients to improve their financial well-being
Requirements:
- Direct client-facing experience in a fee-based wealth management or planning role
- Results driven approach with a consistent track record to form relationships
- Desire for role with base salary, performance-based compensation and growing earnings potential
- Must possess an active Series 65
- Must possess an active Health and Life Insurance license or will be required to obtain it within the first three months of employment
- A Clean U-4
- A Certified Financial Planner (CFP) or other certification is desired but not required
Edelman Financial Engines takes a market-based approach to pay. This is a commission based opportunity designed for driven sales professionals. Your earning potential is directly linked to your performance and success in growing sales and client relationships. Additionally, this role may be eligible for other forms of compensation and benefits, such as a discretionary bonus, health, dental and other wellness plans, and 401(k) contributions.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific benefits eligible for this role during the hiring process.
Company at a glance
For more than 35 years, Edelman Financial Engines has been helping people move their financial lives forward.
Our founders set the tone for our mission – giving individual investors access to sophisticated investment modeling tools that were previously available only to institutional investors, and providing financial planning and wealth management advice with the belief that everyone should have a trusted financial advocate who is always acting in their best interests. Today, we’re one of America’s top independent wealth planning and workplace investment advisory firms, serving more than 1.3 million clients (as of Dec. 2024).
Our unique combination of high-tech and high-touch services helps people wherever they are on their personal financial journey. Through our Wealth Management services, we deliver straightforward wealth planning and investment advice to help individuals and families connect the dots between key parts of their financial life so they can build, grow, protect and preserve their wealth. Through our Employer Services, we work with many of the nation’s leading employers, offering an integrated suite of personalized financial solutions to support employees across their major life events and milestones – from their first paycheck all the way through retirement.
In serving clients from coast to coast, we know that when individuals have better confidence and command over their own financial journey, this can have a positive lasting impact on families, communities, and generations over time. This mission-driven purpose is deeply embedded in our values, our culture, and across all of our teams.
Top Benefits
- Discretionary Bonus
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Wellness Plans
- 401(k) Contributions
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