Service Advisor

Lead Advisor; Westport (CT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lead Advisor in Westport is recruiting for a Service Advisor/Relationship Manager to deliver premier financial planning and platinum-level service to clients. The role focuses on dynamic planning for existing clients, client reviews, and collaboration with teams to enhance the client experience.

Ideal candidates have 2-3+ years in client-facing financial planning, CFP preferred, and hold SIE, Series 7, 66, and LAH licenses.

Qualifications

• 2-3+ years of client-facing financial planning experience.
• CFP preferred (or obtain in first 12 months with the firm).
• SIE, Series 7, 66 and LAH insurance license.

Responsibilities

• Sit second chair on senior advisor’s client meetings to build relationships and learn the firm’s planning approach.
• Conduct client reviews to align investment, planning, and insurance strategies with goals.
• Identify new business opportunities through planning needs, referrals, and introductions.
• Collaborate with investment, planning and operations teams to implement recommendations.
• Shadow the director of financial planning to learn advanced strategies.
• Stay current with industry changes to bring new ideas to clients and the practice.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Networking

Strong communication

Education

CFP preferred

Tools

SIE

Series 7

Series 66

LAH license

Job description

Lead Advisor is a wealth management recruiting and consulting firm. This role is for one of our clients in Westport. To view other open roles, visit jobs.lead-advisor.com

Our client, an award-winning wealth management and planning practice in Westport, is hiring a Service Advisor/ Relationship Manager to continue to deliver first class financial planning and platinum levelservice to their clients.

The primary responsibility of the service advisor is to provide dynamic planning to existing clients, conduct client reviews and collaborate with team members to execute an unmatched client experience.

Responsibilities may include (but are not limited to):

• Sit second chair on senior advisor’s client meetings for an initial transition period to build relationships with clients and understand and adopt the firm’s financial planning philosophy, internal systems and planning approach
• Conduct reviews for a client segment to ensure their investment, advanced planning, and insurance strategies are connected to their updated goals.
• Identify any new areas of business development for current clients including, but not limited to: planning opportunities/ needs, new assets, referrals and introductions, parents/next gen, COIs, etc.
• Work with the investment, planning and operations teams to collaborate on analysis, recommendations, planning implementation, and service items.
• Shadow the director of financial planning to learn the financial planning process and the senior advisor to learn advanced planning strategies and techniques.
• Learn independently, keeping up with industry changes, strategies and regulation/ legislation to bring new approaches and ideas to clients and the practice

Qualifications:

• 2-3+ years of client-facing financial planning experience
• CFP preferred (or obtain in first 12 months with the firm)
• SIE, Series 7, 66 and LAH insurance license

Must have a desire to:

• Network and build meaningful relationships with executives, COIs, business owners, and high-net worth individuals
• Be a confident and an effective communicator
• Want to influence and contribute to a rapidly growing wealth management firm

To succeed at this practice, these qualities are vital:

• Exceptional organization and execution/follow-through
• Process orientated
• Strong Self Confidence/ Low Ego/ Zero Attitude/ No Drama
• Self-motivated/ Go-getter/ Upbeat, Can-Do Attitude
• Strong sense of urgency
• Detail-oriented
• Takes pride in job well done
• Hard-wired to overdeliver
• Proven track record of success
• Collaborative/ Inspired by being part of a high performing team

Location: 4 days a week in Westport office