Associate Wealth Advisor

Posted:
1/10/2025, 3:49:52 AM

Location(s):
Columbus, Ohio, United States ⋅ Ohio, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Customer Success & Support ⋅ Sales & Account Management

Workplace Type:
On-site

Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth

 

At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Provide Administrative Support for New Retirement Business:

  • Ensure the coordination and timely completion of all necessary documents to establish/transfer new retirement business
  • Coordinate and ensure the completion of forms required to establish agreements between client and a record-keeper, TPA, and custodian
  • Ensure details regarding new retirement plans’ investments are accurate

Service Existing Retirement Business:

  • Supporting wealth advisor – retirement plans in delivering services to clients, with the potential to lead less complex client relationships.
  • Providing organizational support by assisting with new Plan client onboarding, information management, and coordinating with external service providers.
  • Monitor questions and provide responses to Plan trustees in a professional and timely manner concerning issues or questions
  • Assist in performing research as needed to respond to retirement plan questions
  • Learn and lead management of Fi360 ToolKit
  • Assist in distributing fund performance reports to plan sponsors 
  • Assisting in preparation for client meetings, documenting discussions, and managing follow-up actions.
  • Co-leading participant education meetings about Client’s specific 401(k), saving for retirement, and general financial planning concepts.
  • Engage in one-on-one dialogue with participants
  • Monitor components of retirement plan compliance (meeting minutes, RPS Agreement, IPS, vendor forms, and others documents) and ensure all components are maintained and current
  • Responsible for protecting, securing, and properly handling of all confidential client data to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to our clients

Required Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Strong integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality
  • Fiduciary mentality – prioritizing clients’ interest above self-interest
  • Proficiency using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
  • Series 65 – or willingness to achieve license shortly after hire
  • Interest in learning intricacies of retirement plan management and providing advisory services.
  • Fundamental knowledge of investments, securities markets, economics, portfolio management, and fundamental concepts of financial planning.
  • Customer service, interpersonal and listening skills to effectively communicate with clients and plan participants and earn trust
  • Written/verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills

  • Experience or accreditation specific to the retirement plan industry
  • Knowledge of Fi360 – ToolKit
  • Workforce CRM software

Core Competencies Required

  • Client Focus: Personally demonstrates that external (or internal) clients are a high priority.  Identifies client needs and expectations and responds to them in a timely manner.  Anticipates and prevents delays or other things that can adversely affect the client.  Keeps clients informed about the status of pending action.
  • Collaboration/Working with Others: Effectively works together with colleagues toward common goals, and/or facilitates goal achievement in others.
  • Initiative: Being aware of where there are opportunities for improvement and quickly bringing them to the team’s attention.
  • Innovation:  Willingness to share new ideas, including unusual ideas and ideas showing marked departure from previous practice.
  • Integrity: Promotes and personally models behaviors that underscore the importance of honesty, truth, respect, and fairness in interpersonal relations; creates a supportive work environment; shows up to work and/or meetings on time, ready to act on responsibilities.
  • Problem Solving: The process of working through details of a problem to reach a solution
  • Striving for Excellence: Displays an on-going commitment to learning and self-improvement, with emphasis on developmental areas that are job and/or organization-relevant

Job Specific Competencies Required

  • Accountability/Self-Confidence to Execute: Believes in one's own capabilities and knowledge to effect positive outcomes and even succeed where others may not and demonstrates that attitude in performing day-to-day duties.
  • Attention to Detail: Consistently submits work that is free of errors or omissions and regularly demonstrates a thorough approach to accuracy of deliverables.
  • Follow Up / Responsiveness: Is respectful of commitments made with others on mutually agreed upon action items, as well as prompt return of phone calls and emails.
  • Oral Communication: The ability to express oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others.
  • Priority Setting: Time Management: Spends time and prioritizes activities based on what’s most important, factoring both corporate, departmental, and individual objectives.
  • Professional Communication Skills: Expresses ideas clearly and concisely; listens actively; and speaks and writes effectively.  Is cognizant of one’s own non-verbal behaviors.
  • Written Communication: The ability to express oneself clearly in business writing.

Physical Requirements

  • This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.

  • This position may require the ability to lift up to 15 pounds.

  • This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

  • Must be 18 years of age or older.

  • Must be willing to submit to a background investigation; any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.

  • Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Corient will require proof of work authorization.

  • Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

  • Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.

What You Can Expect from Us

Our dedication to the Employee Experience at Corient is aimed at supporting, empowering, and inspiring our talented team through:

  • 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching 

  • Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient

  • Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance 

  • Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability  

  • Paid Maternity & Parental Leave 

  • Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts

  • Dependent Care FSA 

  • Commuter & Transit FSA 

  • Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot 

  • Training Reimbursement  

  • Paid Professional Designations  

  • Giving back to the community - Volunteer days

Corient is an integrated national U.S. wealth management firm providing comprehensive solutions to ultra-high-net-worth and high-net-worth clients. We combine the personal service, creativity and objective advice of a boutique with the power of an exclusive network of experienced advisors, capabilities and solutions to create a profoundly different wealth experience. As fiduciaries, we put our clients at the center of everything we do. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives and establishing lasting legacies.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities. 

We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.