Fiduciary Operations Director

Blue spring Wealth Partners (Blue spring) is part of Kestra Holdings, an industry‑leading wealth management platform for independent financial professionals nationwide. Blue spring acquires successful, growing wealth management businesses from inside and outside the Kestra ecosystem, promoting advisor autonomy while providing scale and operational efficiencies for its partner firms. This role focuses on guiding the firm’s fiduciary oversight across trade allocation, best execution, client suitability, and valuation.

The Fiduciary Operations Director will lead trade‑allocation and aggregation oversight, building durable controls, reporting, and automation to scale. The position reports to the Chief Compliance Officer and plays a key role in managing the overall risk framework and enhancing the firm’s regulatory infrastructure.

The Director will design a best‑execution oversight program aligned to a multi‑custodian, multi‑CIP operating model, develop monitoring and exception escalation routines for client profiles, and oversee valuation governance, pricing sources, and security‑level valuation processes. They will create governance routines, dashboards, and exception queues to support timely remediation and audit readiness.

• Establish a control framework and operating cadence across trading oversight, suitability controls, and valuation governance (metrics, KRIs, documented procedures, issue management, audit readiness).
• Lead cross‑functional reviews of trading, investment committee stakeholders, compliance, ops, custodians, and vendors, driving decisions from findings to implementation.
• Develop automation and reporting in Excel using VBA/macros to reduce manual work and improve reliability.
• Maintain tight documentation, including exception logs, approvals, testing evidence, and management reporting suitable for exams/audits.
• Create and maintain governance routines, presenting dashboards and reporting packages to senior governance committees.

• Bachelor’s degree or related work experience.
• Relevant licenses and/or certifications are preferred.
• Hands‑on trading experience (execution, blocks/allocations, OMS workflows), investment committee exposure, or other governance forum experience.
• Demonstrated ability to design controls, write procedures, and run recurring oversight/testing programs (exception management, root‑cause analysis, remediation).
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in trading operations, portfolio operations, investment management, financial planning, or related oversight roles.
• Advanced Excel skills, including VBA/macro development for tools, validations, exception queues, and reporting packages.

• Competitive pay and benefits with a large employer (over 1,600 employees nationwide).
• 401(k), health insurance, and a competitive benefits package.
• Work in a supportive, collaborative environment committed to professional excellence.
• Help clients navigate meaningful financial decisions with confidence.
• Opportunities for training, development, and long‑term growth within the firm.

Kestra Values:
Our Mission is Powering Financial Independence, enabling the growth and success of investing clients and the advisors who serve them. We do that by living our values:
Serve, Make it Happen, and One Team.

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