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 of the Kestra Holdings ecosystem, promoting advisor autonomy and entrepreneurship while providing operation scale and efficiencies for its partner firms. Our advisor-focused culture is built on innovation and advocacy, enabling advisors to offer comprehensive securities and investment advisory solutions to their clients.

The Fiduciary Operations Director will lead the firm’s oversight program across trade allocation & aggregation, best execution, client profile/suitability, and pricing & valuation. This is a high-impact, hands‑on role at the intersection of trading, investment governance, and operational risk that is ideal for someone who has “sat close to the trade,” understands how investment decisions are made, and can build durable controls, reporting, and automation to scale.

• 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 (trading, investment committee stakeholders, compliance, ops, custodians/vendors) and drive 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, including presenting dashboards and reporting packages to senior governance committees.

• Bachelor’s degree or other related work experience.
• Relevant licenses and/or certifications are preferred.
• Hands‑on trading experience (execution, blocks/allocations, OMS workflows), investment committee exposure (manager research, product approval committees), or other governance forum experience involving investment selection and monitoring.
• 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 the ability to write and maintain VBA macros / Visual Basic automation (building tools, validations, exception queues, and reporting packages).

• Competitive pay and benefits with a large employer (over 1600 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.

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