Sendero | Junior Investment Advisor

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Junior Investment Advisor

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced, financial professional with a deep understanding of the markets and a strong relationship-oriented approach to join our registered investment advisory firm as a Junior Investment Advisor. This role is responsible for helping our wealth management clients protect, preserve, and grow wealth responsibly.

As a Junior Investment Advisor, you will work collaboratively with investment advisors, clients, and other team members to develop and implement strategic investment solutions. As asset allocators we do not buy and sell individual stocks, we find strategies with a competitive advantage in each asset class. You will partner with clients to understand their objectives and guide decisions to strategically meet their ultimate financial goals. Additionally, this role requires a strong understanding of the challenges faced by families of wealth, a high sense of urgency, and the ability to prioritize effectively for both you and the team.

Success in this role means you can efficiently rebalance complex entities or portfolios within our rebalancing system. You must become well-versed in our investment process, with the ability to articulate our investment options in detail, paired with an ability to break down complex financial concepts into clear, easy-to-understand explanations for clients. You will serve as a coach, mentor, and leader within the firm, supporting both colleagues and clients. Finally, you must demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, setting clear priorities for yourself and the entire team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Make model changes, assess their impact on each individual client portfolio, and make strategic adjustments for taxes or other specific needs of the client
  • Support 100-125 clients ranging from $3 million to $25 million with an average account size of about $10 million; take a leadership role in 10-20 client relationships, often made up of the rising generation
  • Independently provide investment guidance and implement investment strategies for clients in a timely manner
  • Own monthly financial modeling and database management responsibilities, such as investment policy targets and portfolio monitoring, to proactively identify opportunities
  • Responsible for the portfolio rebalancing process, including error-free trading
  • Responsible for understanding and implementing the strategies within each portfolio
  • Exercise judgment and decision-making abilities to challenge conclusions and probe deeper to ensure the best decisions are made
  • Develop the ability to lead the Sendero Guidance Process with clients
  • Create asset allocation recommendations based on Investment Team’s asset allocation targets and clients’ needs
  • Collaborate with all areas of the firm to ensure client requests and needs are addressed promptly
  • Take full control of the Request for Proposals process
  • Take a leadership role in firm projects
  • Attend prospect presentations and assist with onboarding new clients
  • Attend marketing and business-related events as necessary and/or required
  • Collaborate with investment advisors and the CRS team to drive the firm’s mission, ensure consistent adherence to processes and procedures, and effectively communicate and implement changes
  • Develop a masterful understanding of risk statistics and various other portfolio measurement tools to verify accuracy of investment strategies and benchmark performance
  • Develop an extensive understanding of global markets
  • Possess the ability to successfully discuss in-depth investment-related questions

Qualifications

  • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree, preferably in a business-related field (accounting, finance, economics, risk management, data analytics, data science or mathematics)
  • CFP is a plus
  • Required: 7-10+ years of portfolio management or investment-related experience
  • Strong knowledge of portfolio performance and rebalancing systems
  • Strong presentation skills in front of individuals and groups
  • Knowledge of Bloomberg and/or FactSet
  • Series 65 license or the equivalent is required and must remain in good standing
  • Evidence of an active role on a community board is a plus

Competencies

  • Experience with and/or knowledge of behavioral finance
  • Extensive experience in serving families of wealth, including cash flow analysis, income protection, and asset protection
  • Deep understanding of asset allocation and how markets work
  • Ability to build trust and relationships with clients and their families
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks with acute attention to detail while working autonomously
  • Ability to consistently deliver results on time
  • Ability to quickly learn, understand, and articulate the value proposition for all five Sendero® business lines
  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to simplify complex topics
  • Ability to listen and ask probing questions
  • Intellectually curious, team player with a desire to make a difference
  • The personal qualities of honesty, loyalty, humility, diligence, attention to detail, and analytical orientation

What Sets You Apart

  • Strategic thinking with the ability to identify and anticipate client needs
  • Exceptional attention to detail while maintaining a big-picture perspective
  • Collaborative mindset and team-oriented approach
  • Genuine care for clients and their financial well-being

To apply, email your resume to hr@sendero.com

About Us

Sendero® is a boutique, independent partner-led, employee-owned firm created to help families focus on navigating wealth and the complexities surrounding wealth. Each of the Sendero® partners brings decades of professional and personal experience to situations.  In addition to having a deeply experienced and sophisticated investment team, we have developed the expertise to deal with complex, multi-generational family needs.  Incorporating institutional practices allows us to create a disciplined and thoughtful approach to the significant challenges that families face. We focus on creating sustainable, repeatable, long-term plans for our clients that include public and private investments, acquisition and disposition of business and personal assets, risk management, family office management, family foundation management, and multi-generational legacy training, as appropriate.  In addition, we have developed a dedicated program that focuses on women.  For more information, visit sendero.com.

 

Sendero® is comprised of Sendero Wealth Management, LLC, Sendero Family Enterprise, LLC, Sendero Securities, LLC and Sendero Partners, LLC. Sendero Wealth Management is an SEC registered investment advisory firm serving clients with investable assets of $3 million and above. Sendero Securities, a broker-dealer and member of FINRA/SIPC, may offer alternative investments. Investment management services are not provided by Sendero Family Enterprise.

Job Duties

  • Build a Relationship Based Practice: fostering deep, trusted, and long-term relationships across generations to help families dedicatedly navigate situations and decisions related to life stages and wealth transfer
  • Support 50-75 clients, take a leadership role in 10-20 client relationships
  • Independently provide investment guidance, and implementing strategies for clients
  • Own monthly financial modeling and database management responsibilities such as IPS Targets and portfolio monitoring to proactively identify opportunities
  • Master understanding of risk statistics and various other portfolio measurement tools to verify accuracy of investment strategies and benchmark performance
  • Master understanding of global markets
  • Use of independent judgement & decision making abilities as well as questioning decisions & probing deeper to ensure best decisions are made
  • Lead the Sendero Guidance Process with clients
  • Create asset allocation recommendations based on investment team’s asset allocation targets and clients’ needs
  • Ability to successfully discuss in-depth investment related questions
  • Collaboratively work with all areas of the firm ensuring client request and needs are executed in a timely manner
  • Full control in the Request for Proposals process
  • Take a leadership role in firm projects
  • Attend prospect presentations and assist in the on-boarding process
  • Attend marketing and business-related events as necessary and/or required

Qualifications:

  • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree preferred in business-related field (accounting, finance, economics, risk management, data analytics, data science or mathematics)
  • Required: 5+ years investment related experience
  • Strong knowledge of portfolio performance and rebalancing systems
  • Strong presentation skills in front of individuals and groups
  • Lead a team of Portfolio Managers by mentoring and coaching
  • Knowledge of Bloomberg and/or FactSet
  • Series 65 license is required and remain in good standing
  • Assume an active role in community board(s)

Competencies:

  • Experience with and/or knowledge of behavioral finance
  • Deep experience in serving families of wealth including Cash Flow Analysis, Income Protection, and Asset Protection
  • Deep understanding of asset allocation and how markets work
  • Ability to build trust and relationships with clients and their families
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks with acute attention to detail while working autonomously
  • Ability to consistently deliver results in a timely manner
  • Ability to simplify complex topics
  • Intellectually curious, team player with a desire to make a difference
  • The personal qualities of honesty, loyalty, humility, diligence, attention to detail, and analytical orientation