Wealth Management Principal

Do you have a passion for wealth management and impacting the financial lives of your clients?  Are you motivated when you can help clients reach their goals? Do you like the challenge of solving the puzzle that can be a client's complex financial picture? Do you have a strong wealth management and investment advisory knowledge base that will allow you to explain simple and complex financial solutions to a client?  If you answered yes to the questions above, we would like to speak with you about being a Wealth Management Principal on our experienced Houston-based team of client facing partners.  As part of your development, you will have the opportunity to learn and progress with the goal of becoming a partner.

Primary Responsibilities:

As a Wealth Management Principal, you will serve our clients with a range of financial planning services, which require the following responsibilities:

• Build strong, long-term client relationships. You will work with clients to analyze their current financial health, help set short/long-term financial goals, and design a realistic plan of action including investment policy and portfolio construction. You will proactively provide the following:
  • Estate planning solutions and document summaries while working with client's estate attorney
  • Income tax planning advice while working with the client's tax preparer
  • Coordination of client meetings including materials, agenda, and post-meeting action item follow-up
  • Answers to clients’ questions with superior service front of mind, always
  • Financial planning using e-Money
• Provide comprehensive financial advice: You will determine what level of financial plan and support is needed for each client and adjust their level of service accordingly.
• Communicate: You must be a superior, proactive communicator who can adjust your message and style to the needs of our clients. You must have a disciplined approach to client follow-up.
• Brand Ambassador: Enthusiastically advocate the values, ethics, and unique approach our company takes to personal financial planning.
• Data Management: You must maintain all data in Salesforce and follow designated workflows and compliance procedures.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor's degree required. CFP preferred.  CIMA, CFA, JD, CHFC, and EA a plus
• 7+ years financial planning, estate planning and/or tax planning/preparation experience
• Demonstrate strong and effective leadership skills through clear communication and collaboration with others
• Strong interpersonal and networking skills with both external clients and internal collaboration
• Working knowledge of eMoney, Salesforce, Orion, Holistiplan, Microsoft Office a strong plus
• Ability to listen and empathize with clients, spot, and analyze issues, and simplify/explain financial concepts to provide solutions
• Strong attention to detail, exceptional problem-solving skills, and ability to organize and prioritize work in order to meet deadlines in a proactive manner with little supervision required
• Coachable professional with good “business sense” and an energetic/dynamic personality
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to anticipate and resolve complex issues
• Superior written and oral communication/presentation skills
• Confidentiality and professional integrity of the highest order
• Must accept and thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Ability to develop referral sources and prospects. Strong business development skills.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with potential and current clients
• Collaborate with colleagues to present to prospective clients and centers of influence
• Tenacious about doing what is right for the client

Company Overview:

Cerity Partners is a leading, national registered wealth management and institutional consulting firm serving high-net-worth individuals and their families, businesses and their employees, and nonprofit organizations from its offices across the country. Our in-house experts of attorneys, tax advisors, financial planners and investment professionals are passionate about and committed to providing objective financial advice and oversight.

Our mission is to positively impact the financial well-being of our clients by delivering objective financial advice.  Our culture allows us to deliver this mission. We believe in a simple formula that drives our actions and pushes us every day to do better than the day before: People First + Accountability = Winning Outcomes. We expect our team members to deliver on their responsibilities, understand how every component of our company works to generate success, and hold themselves and their colleagues accountable to the highest standards. As a result, we will enjoy talking to you if:

• You understand the need to provide a world-class client experience
• You value the collaboration of insightful, experienced colleagues to deliver our services
• You demonstrate a strong affinity in financial services, exceptional communication, organization, and prioritization skills