Investment Proposals & Onboarding Specialist

Sequoia Financial Group Llc; Dublin (OH); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Limited travel

Job summary

Sequoia Financial Group in Dublin, OH is seeking an Implementation & Proposal Analyst to join our Investment Implementation team. You will serve as the subject matter expert on investment proposals, owning the proposal methodology, standards, and technology used to translate advisor input into a recommended allocation.

The role involves building proposals, modeling tax and transition impacts, training others, maintaining templates, and coordinating with Compliance, Marketing, and Portfolio

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in financial services or investment operations.
• Direct experience building investment proposals for RIAs or wealth managers.
• Knowledge of asset allocation, portfolio construction, and tax-deferred accounts.
• Proven ability to manage a deadline-driven process with client-facing outputs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME on investment proposals, owning methodology, standards, and technology, and acting as reference point for advisors, marketing, compliance and the Investment Implementation team on what the process supports.
• Build proposals 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.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Attention to detail

Time management

Ownership

Fiduciary mindset

Collaboration

Client and Advisor orientation

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Sequoia Financial Group in Dublin, OH is seeking an Implementation & Proposal Analyst to join our Investment Implementation team. You will serve as the subject matter expert on investment proposals, owning the proposal methodology, standards, and technology used to translate advisor input into a recommended allocation.

The role involves building proposals, modeling tax and transition impacts, training others, maintaining templates, and coordinating with Compliance, Marketing, and Portfolio