Private Wealth Client Associate
Columbus, Ohio
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**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._
_Merrill is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations._
_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 bring their unique perspectives, ideas and experiences, helping to create a work community that is culture driven, resilient, results focused._
**Job Description:**
This job is responsible for providing client service support to Financial Advisors (FAs). Key responsibilities include supporting enterprise strategic objectives, operational excellence goals, and client advocacy within the FA's business, while customizing solutions based on their specific needs. Job expectations include serving as the most frequent point of contact within Merrill to address all service needs of their clients and acting as a resource for Client Associates on the team.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Partners with Financial Advisors, Client Relationship Managers, and Market Supervision Managers on all aspects of client servicing, risk, investments, and banking products, while receiving appropriate guidance and escalating issues as needed
+ Provides excellent Client Service to the bank's clients through educating them on all of the bank's service and banking offerings
+ Ensures timeliness, accuracy, and completeness in client materials and follows up on all client and Financial Advisor (FA) requests
+ Assists with ensuring practices are in alignment with the bank's policies and procedures to support operational excellence, protect the bank's clients, and manage risk
+ Identifies, deepens, and maintains client relationships through emphasizing the bank's offerings and promoting incorporation of banking into day-to-day practices, while communicating outputs to the FA
+ Performs general business growth support functions aligned to the role of the Client Associate or Wealth Management Client Associate, providing business development, investment solutions, and/or business management support to multiple FAs
**Skills:**
+ Account Management
+ Client Management
+ Customer and Client Focus
+ Issue Management
+ Oral Communications
+ Business Development
+ Client Solutions Advisory
+ Pipeline Management
+ Prioritization
+ Trade Operations Management
+ Administrative Services
+ Client Investments Management
+ Emotional Intelligence
+ Referral Identification
+ Written Communications
**Minimum Education Requirement:** High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent
**For internal employees; participation in a work from home posture does not make you ineligible to post, however, may require to meet the workplace excellence policy.**
**Shift:**
1st shift (United States of America)
**Hours Per Week:**
37.5
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