Sr Wealth Planning Strategist

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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.

The Sr Wealth Planning Strategist plays a significant role in deepening and broadening relationships with existing clients, as well as developing/bringing new client relationships of generally above $10mm in relationship balances into Wealth Management.  

• Partners with relationship managers and/or advisors during the consultative process with largest and most complex clients and prospects, and also assists with overall client discovery. 
• Works alongside the relationship manager to assess goals, objectives, and current situation of clients and prospects through a discovery process to determine the most appropriate planning offering. 
• Focuses on cash flow analysis, insurance analysis, education funding analysis, executive compensation issues and stock option analysis, asset allocation analysis, income tax planning, charitable planning, business succession, asset protection, and estate and wealth transfer planning.  
• Collaborates with internal and external partners to promote Wealth Planning both internally and externally. 
• Provides support as a subject-matter expert to clients, relationship managers and/or advisors around Wealth Planning content, services and solutions. 
• Prioritizes consulting and interactions with advisors to serve their most important clients. 
• Delivers Wealth Planning advice during client meetings to enable relationship managers and/or advisors to independently implement Wealth Planning advice to other clients. 
• Responsible for setting the Advice & Planning framework in a geography, in alignment with scalable Wealth Planning advice. 
• Adheres to all planning and risk protocols and procedures. 

• 8+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: tax, financial, or wealth planning

• FINRA registration including Series 7 and 66 (or FINRA recognized equivalents)

• 10 years comprehensive financial planning experience with HNW clients
• A Juris Doctor (JD) degree, active CPA designation, or active CFP certification highly preferred
• 10 years of estate planning experience with HNW clients
• Advance degree and/or professional designations such as CFP or Masters in Taxation
• Professional network and local market knowledge in location and location markets
• Deep experience with clients in the $20+ million Net Worth segment

• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
• For specific FINRA qualification exams obtained after 9/30/2018, the Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) exam co-requisite may also be required
• Registration for FINRA Series 7 and Series 66 (or 63 and 65) must be completed within a 90 or 180-day time period contingent upon number of license(s) needed if not immediately available to transfer upon hire. FINRA recognized equivalents will be accepted. This will be communicated at time of offer acceptance

• 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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