Financial Planner

Position Overview

Our client is seeking a Financial Planner to join their growing team. You will provide comprehensive financial planning support to advisors and clients, playing a key role in the development, analysis, and implementation of financial strategies. This position partners closely with advisory teams to deliver high-quality financial plans, conduct in-depth analysis, and support strategic initiatives across the firm’s financial planning function. This role is not a sales position and focuses on delivering sophisticated planning support and enhancing the client planning experience. This is a hybrid position (at least 3 days in the office).

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning & Client Support

• Prepare and develop comprehensive financial plans including retirement projections, cash flow analyses, education planning, insurance analyses, and estate planning scenarios.

• Conduct detailed financial modeling and scenario analysis to support client recommendations.

• Identify planning opportunities based on financial plan analysis and advisor discussions.

• Draft financial plans and supporting materials for advisor review and client presentations.

• Perform specialized analyses including Social Security, mortgage, tax planning, and other client-specific requests.

• Collaborate with clients’ external advisors (CPAs, attorneys, etc.) to gather relevant data and ensure accurate planning outcomes.

Financial Planning Department Leadership & Process Management

• Support and enhance the firm’s financial planning process, systems, and tools to ensure efficiency, scalability, and high-quality client outcomes.

• Oversee financial plan preparation across the planning team, ensuring consistency, quality, and timely delivery.

• Lead initiatives to improve and standardize financial planning workflows and client experience.

• Evaluate financial planning technologies and processes to ensure alignment with firm strategy and industry standards.

• Partner with advisors and leadership to support firm-wide financial planning initiatives and strategic projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.

• 5+ years of experience in financial planning, wealth management, or advisory services.

• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing comprehensive financial plans.

• CFP designation preferred (or progress toward certification).

• Series 65 license required.

Technical Skills

• Experience with financial planning software (eMoney preferred).

• CRM experience (Salesforce preferred).

• Portfolio management platform experience (Orion preferred).

• Experience with tax and estate planning tools such as Holistiplan or FP Alpha preferred.

• Knowledge of advanced tax planning concepts, including equity compensation (RSUs, ISOs, NQs) and international tax considerations, is a plus.

Professional Skills

• Strong understanding of the RIA and independent wealth management industry.

• Deep financial planning and wealth management expertise.

• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Collaborative team player with a strong commitment to client service.

• Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial and growth-oriented firm environment.

• Demonstrates integrity, accountability, and professional initiative.

Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary: $100,000 – $125,000 depending on experience
Bonus: Up to 10% performance bonus
Benefits include:

• Retirement plan, including 401(k) and Roth 401(k), with employer contributions
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits
• Paid time off and holidays
• Continuing education opportunities and career advancement

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Position Overview

Our client is seeking a detail-oriented Paraplanner to support advisors, financial planners, and clients through comprehensive financial planning preparation and operational support. This role is heavily focused on behind-the-scenes planning work including gathering and organizing client financial data, maintaining information within planning and CRM systems, preparing analyses and reports, and assisting with meeting preparation and follow-up activities.

The Paraplanner will help support retirement, cash flow, education, insurance, tax, and estate planning analyses while working closely with advisors and planners to ensure accurate, timely, and organized deliverables. This individual may occasionally attend client meetings in a support or learning capacity but will primarily focus on planning preparation, workflow coordination, and client support functions rather than sales or business development.

Additional responsibilities include preparing client-ready materials, assisting with scenario modeling and special analyses, tracking planning-related action items, maintaining planning templates and workflows, and supporting process improvements across the planning team. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, collaborative, and eager to continue developing within the financial planning industry with long-term growth potential into a Financial Planner role.

This is a hybrid position (3 days in the Fremont office).

Key Responsibilities

Support Financial Planning Preparation

• Collect, organize, and review client data for completeness and accuracy.
• Input and maintain client information in financial planning, CRM, portfolio management, and document management systems.
• Help prepare financial planning analyses, reports, summaries, and meeting materials.
• Support retirement, cash flow, education, insurance, estate, tax, and other planning-related analyses under the direction of advisors and Financial Planners.
• Assist with scenario modeling and special analyses, such as Social Security, mortgage, tax, insurance, estate flow, or other client-specific planning questions.
• Prepare client-ready materials for review by a Financial Planner or advisor.
• Help identify missing information, inconsistencies, or straightforward planning questions that require advisor or planner review.
• Support ongoing plan updates and client planning workflows.

Support Advisors and Financial Planners

• Work closely with advisors and Financial Planners to prepare for client meetings.
• Help organize meeting agendas, reports, planning exhibits, and follow-up items.
• Track planning-related tasks and implementation follow-up after client meetings.
• Coordinate internally with client service, operations, advisors, and planning team members.
• May attend select client meetings in a support, note-taking, or learning capacity.
• Help ensure planning deliverables are accurate, complete, organized, and delivered on time.

Learn and Improve the Planning Process

• Learn the firm's planning process, assumptions, tools, templates, and service workflows.
• Build proficiency in the firm's financial planning software and related systems.
• Help maintain planning templates, checklists, and internal process documentation.
• Participate in planning team meetings, training, and case discussions.
• Demonstrate increasing independence over time as planning knowledge and judgment develop.
• Support process improvements that improve consistency, accuracy, and client experience.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Financial Planning, or related field
• 1–3 years of experience in financial planning, wealth management, investment advisory, accounting, client service, or related field preferred
• Series 65 license required or ability to obtain within 6 months
• Familiarity with financial planning software, CRM systems, and Microsoft Office preferred
• Exposure to tools such as eMoney, Salesforce, Orion, Holistiplan, or FP Alpha is a plus
• Strong attention to detail, communication skills, organization, and client-service mindset required

Compensation & Benefits:

• Base salary ranging from $75K–$95K plus up to 5% bonus opportunity
• Comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) with employer contributions, medical/dental/vision coverage, PTO, paid holidays, and continuing education/career advancement opportunities

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