Job Description:
Merrill Wealth Management is a leading provider of comprehensive wealth management and investment products and services for individuals, companies, and institutions. Merrill Wealth Management is one of the largest businesses of its kind in the world specializing in goals-based wealth management, including planning for retirement, education, legacy, and other life goals through investment advice and guidance.
Merrill’s Financial Advisors and Wealth Management Client Associates help clients pursue the life they envision through a personal relationship with their advisory team committed to their needs. We believe trust comes from transparency. Our trusted advisory teams are equipped with access to the investment insights of Merrill coupled with the banking convenience of Bank of America.
At Merrill, we empower you to bring your whole self to work. We value diversity in our thoughts, business, and within our employees and clients. Our Wealth Management team represents an array of different backgrounds and brings their unique perspectives, ideas, and experiences, helping to create a work community that is culture-driven, resilient, results-focused, and effective.
Job Responsibilities:
- Leads the service delivery model and wealth management banking strategy of respective markets to drive business growth
- Hires, develops, and leads a team of cross-functional professionals to support Financial Advisor teams and deliver outstanding client service
- Supervises financial transactions and operations to drive risk management best practices and ensure compliance with policies and procedures, while preparing to effectively manage any type of branch audit
- Oversees the client service experience and reviews the approval of new client accounts
- Leads Wealth Management Client Associates and the branch Operations Department to meet and exceed the bank's client service expectations and operational excellence goals
Managerial Responsibilities:
- Diversity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company D&I goals.
- Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence, and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data-based decision making, and continuous improvement.
- Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities, and contributions.
- Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls, and culture are in place to identify, escalate, and debate issues.
- People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching, and feedback to motivate, differentiate, and improve performance.
- Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
- Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
- Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting, and appropriately delegating team work.
Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Ensuring client service expectations are met and exceeded while balancing the risk and exposure for Merrill
- Managing the branch's Wealth Management Client Associates and Service Support Staff
- Representing the office and Merrill with clients, prospects, Financial Advisor recruits, vendors, regulators, and outside legal counsel
- Requires diversification and experience with Bank of America and Merrill Products & Services, Trend Analysis, Risk Assessment, Human Resources, and broad industry knowledge
- Coaching teams to deliver a modern, digital-first service model focusing on client satisfaction
- Proactively identifying opportunities to connect Financial Advisors and clients to the broader enterprise
- Managing the daily operations ensuring compliance to industry regulations, and policies and procedures
Required Qualifications:
- Currently hold SIE, Series 7 AND Series 66 (or Series 63 AND Series 65), Series 9 AND Series 10 (or Series 8) or equivalent licenses and Series 3, 31 licenses, if warranted
- Minimum of 5+ years professional experience
Key Qualifications for the role:
- Current or previous Merrill Wealth Management experience strongly preferred
- Self-motivated and client-centric
- Expert knowledge of regulatory and supervisory requirements and corporate policies and procedures
- Investment product knowledge (i.e., 401K, Options, Annuities, Tax, Retirement Plans, Money Funds, Mutual Funds, Liabilities, Margin, Trust Operations, etc.)
- Prior trend analysis experience
- Strong customer service and communication skills
- Strong management skills, including the ability to effectively plan, monitor, influence, negotiate, supervise and delegate
Desired Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Skills:
- Compensation Analysis
- Performance Management
- Process Performance Management
- Referral Management
- Workforce Planning
- Due Diligence
- Internal Audit Review
- Leadership Development
- Recruiting
- Risk Management
- Client Management
- Customer Service Management
- Employee Counseling
- Succession Planning
- Trade Operations Management
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
Pay Transparency details:
Pay range $110,000.00 - $155,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education, and skill set. Discretionary incentive eligible. This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company. Benefits include industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees.
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