Sr. Portfolio Manager (Investment Strategist)

Important Note: During the application process, ensure your contact information (email and phone number) is up to date and upload your current resume when submitting your application for consideration. To participate in some selection activities you will need to respond to an invitation. The invitation can be sent by both email and text message.  In order to receive text message invitations, your profile must include a mobile phone number designated as “Personal Cell” or “Cellular” in the contact information of your application. 

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Wealth & Investment Management, or WIM, is one of the United States’ leading providers of financial and investment services. WIM provides a full range of personalized wealth management, investment, and retirement products and services to meet clients’ unique needs and help them achieve financial goals. Our mission is to help clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. We accomplish this by:

• Building enduring client relationships through sound, thoughtful, and objective advice
• Developing individualized plans for clients to help meet their financial objectives
• Helping clients build, manage, preserve, and transition their financial resources and wealth

WIM serves clients through the following businesses:

• Wells Fargo Private Bank serves high-net-worth individuals and families.
• Wells Fargo Advisors provides investment advice and guidance to clients through more than 13,200 full-service financial advisors and referrals from more than 5,450 licensed bankers. 
• Wells Fargo Asset Management brings together a strategic balance of investment capabilities to serve the investment needs of institutions, financial advisors, and individuals worldwide.

Through Wells Fargo Private Bank, WIM is also a leading provider of trust, investment, and fiduciary services, including personal trust services and a number of specialized wealth services designed to meet the diverse needs of high-net-worth clients.

Investment Strategist provides clients a holistic investment approach to HNW clients and is delivered consistently through multiple channels. Grows new business and revenue while leveraging partnership opportunities throughout the firm; manages significant client accounts and may act as a lead for Investment Management Specialist and/or a defined market area; possesses strong product knowledge and excellent sales and relationship skills to service clients; and manages difficult, larger and more complex globally diversified investment portfolios; strong emphasis on new business and revenue generation. 

Responsibilities include: consulting the team to develop and recommend a client centric investment portfolio with full diversification using all of WM s investment solutions; recognizes financial/non-financial asset opportunities to integrate into the overall investment plan for clients; utilizes the investment plan as a guide to a broader holistic investment methodology; develops and executes client investment strategy; with broad investment strategy authority and acting within established investment policy guidelines, provides advice to generate returns commensurate with an acceptable level of risk for the client; is the voice of WM investment philosophy/asset management capabilities; and disseminates investment management thought leadership information across their geography to clients. 

This LO position has customer contact and job duties which may include needs assessing and referring those customers interested in a dwelling secured product to a SAFE team member. This position includes assisting customers without taking an application and without offering or negotiating terms of a dwelling secured transaction. 

Individuals in a LO position also must meet the Loan Originator requirements under Regulation Z (LO) outlined in the job expectations below.

• 10+ years of investment management experience

•A Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Designation
•An active CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER (tm) certification
•Knowledge and understanding of High Net Worth (HNW) or Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) clients: wealth management serving and advising 
•Professional presentation skills
•Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills

• Individuals in Loan Originator (LO) positions must meet the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau qualification requirements and comply with related Wells Fargo policies. The LO qualification requirements include meeting applicable financial responsibility, character, general financial fitness and criminal background standards. A current credit report will be used to assess your financial responsibility and credit fitness, however, a credit score is not included as part of the evaluation. Successful candidates must also meet ongoing regulatory requirements including additional screening, if necessary.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time

IL-Chicago: 10 S Wacker Drive - Chicago, IL

• All offers for employment with Wells Fargo are contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed a criminal background check. Wells Fargo will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state and Federal law, including Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
  
  Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women.
  Wells Fargo is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

Benefits
 

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