Financial Planner

Overview 

We are a rapid growing RIA seeking a Wealth Planner to join our team. We specialize in providing sophisticated investment management and wealth planning solutions to high-net worth individuals, families, business owners, and corporate executives. 

At Ashton Thomas Private Wealth, we care about our people. We are a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA), offering extraordinary client service in private wealth management. Our wealth advisors help clients pursue the life they envision through a one-on-one relationship with an advisor committed to their needs. We believe that personal connections are everything and our success is driven by the relationships we form with our colleagues and clients. 

Position Overview 

RIA seeks a full-time Wealth Planner. Accountabilities include delivering a range of wealth planning in partnership with Advisors and their clients and prospects. We value technology at Ashton Thomas Private Wealth and we are looking for a candidate with above average skills in this area. The talent to quickly learn and employ financial planning software and the ability to use the Microsoft 365 suite of products to their fullest potential are essential. Other qualities we value are intelligence, organization, energy, self-motivation, creativity, taking great pride in one’s work and exceptional communication skills. 

Description 

The Wealth Planner role enhances the client experience at Ashton Thomas Private Wealth by providing exceptional wealth planning to help clients set and reach their goals and objectives. 

Duties and responsibilities: 

• Wealth planning resource for an elite group of Wealth Advisors with varying levels of financial planning skill and experience. 

• Assist senior members of planning team with more complex planning cases 

• Be able to understand and interpret various planning documents, including account statements, social security, tax returns, estate planning documents. 

• Be able to answer basic to intermediate wealth, financial and tax planning questions, including researching answers and connecting with other department professionals. 

• Provide ongoing training, mentoring, and coaching to Wealth Advisors to support their team in wealth and financial planning, including providing training on financial planning software for those who wish to create plans on their own. 

• Deliver planning modules, tools, and calculators efficiently and effectively; develop new as required. 

• Maintain capital market assumptions and review process in conjunction with the investment management team. 

• Maintain and regularly review our electronic wealth planning discovery tool and its implementation. 

• Assist with relationship with financial planning software provider. 

• Help create content for library of white papers and presentations on a variety of planning topics 

to supplement planning analysis. 

Qualifications 

• 5 to 10+ years financial planning experience 

• Certified Financial Planner™ designation strongly preferred. 

• Bachelor’s degree in business/finance, economics, or math 

Knowledge/skills 

• Exceptional wealth planning skills, knowledge, and experience. 

• Ability to communicate complexity in a simplified manner while maintaining the integrity of the underlying wealth planning principles. 

• Strong computer skills, financial planning software experience, knowledge of Microsoft 365 products. 

• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion and demonstrate highest level of client service, ethics and integrity. 

• Exceptional interpersonal skills. 

• Detail oriented with superior organizational skills combined with the ability to effectively navigate competing priorities. 

• Collaborative and able to work effectively in a team environment 

• Self-starter with high level of urgency and personal accountability 

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills. 

• Experience with Cognito Forms an asset. 

• Broker/Dealer experience an asset. 

• VBA programming an asset.