Principal Wealth Advisor - Relationship Management

Acorn Financial Services; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Acorn Financial Services seeks a Principal Wealth Advisor to serve as the overarching financial quarterback for multi-generational families and business owners. You will fuse portfolio management with in-house tax and estate planning to protect clients’ legacies and execute unified wealth strategies.

You will design bespoke investment architectures, close structural gaps with legal and tax specialists, and guide clients from accumulation through complex liquidity events, scaling an existing

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate fiduciary responsibility and alignment with client interests.
• Proven ability to manage complex, high-net-worth portfolios.
• Strong communication and relationship-building with families and business owners.

Responsibilities

• Design bespoke investment architectures aligned with client risk tolerance and goals.
• Identify structural gaps and coordinate with in-house CPAs and attorneys.
• Guide enterprise owners through accumulation, pre-sale structuring, and liquidity events.
• Scale and transfer high-net-worth client books using firm acquisition strategies.

Skills

Client relationship management

Fiduciary duty

Wealth planning

Multi-generational wealth

Team collaboration

Job description

Acorn Financial Services manages over $1.4B in assets by acting as a single, proactive fiduciary team. Your mission as a Principal Wealth Advisor is to act as the overarching financial quarterback for multi-generational families and business owners. You will fuse investment portfolio management with in-house tax and estate planning to protect your clients' life work and execute unified, outcome-driven wealth strategies.

Who You Are

• You value people over hype: You know real businesses aren't built on trends; they are built on trust.
• You invest deeply in client relationships and lead with integrity.
• You thrive in disciplined execution: Big ideas matter, but execution wins.
• You bring intense focus and structure to complex portfolio management and business succession planning.
• You possess unimpeachable character: You are a true fiduciary.
• Your thoughts, words, and actions are always aligned with the best interests of your clients and the overarching mission of the firm.
• You grow through feedback and challenge: You constantly seek to sharpen your advanced planning acumen by leveraging the specialized knowledge of the firm's in-house CPAs and attorneys.

What You Will Do

• Design and execute bespoke investment architectures that strictly adhere to the client's individualized risk tolerance and multi-generational objectives.
• Proactively identify structural gaps in a client's financial life and bring in Acorn's legal and tax specialists to seamlessly close them.
• Guide enterprise owners from peak accumulation through complex pre-sale structuring to their post-liquidity "second act".
• Transfer and aggressively scale an existing book of high-net-worth business using Acorn's content-driven acquisition strategies and integrated service models.

How We Measure Success

• Successfully integrate and grow a UHNW book of business
• Successfully integrate 85%+ of your managed client base into Acorn's in-house tax and trust services within the first 24 months.
• Maintain exceptional net promoter scores and a client retention rate exceeding 98% through hyper-personalized, fiduciary stewardship.

What We Offer

We provide a world-class growth infrastructure. Instead of competing with outside CPAs and attorneys, you will have them down the hall, empowering you to offer an unmatched, holistic value proposition that easily wins and retains $15M–$50M+ client accounts.