AMP Financial Advisor Trainee - Easton, MD

Job Summary

Through distance learning, apprenticeship, and training at the firm’s international headquarters, the Advisor Mastery Program (AMP) offers a comprehensive education for the next generation of Raymond James Financial Advisors. The program takes a holistic approach by incorporating training for technical and sales skills to fully position new Advisors for success. In conjunction with a Mentor, Branch Manager, and/or a team of Financial Advisors, the Financial Advisor Trainee will learn to build an individual practice and balance new client development, sales activities, investment management, customer service, and compliance with personal and professional growth.

• Become trained and skilled to effectively and efficiently perform the Financial Advisor role
• Meet production targets that impact overall company revenue goals
• Develop a book of business consistent with AMP program goals for assets under management and required production
• Provide a high level of client service
• Manage the full scope of a client relationship by evaluating the client’s financial needs, investment opportunities, current holdings, and available capital
• Help clients identify their investment objectives and communicate portfolio performance, preserving client loyalty
• Develop a client pipeline through prospecting, networking, community initiatives, centers of influence, and niche development
• Recommend investment products, solutions, and services suitable for prospects and clients based on predetermined needs, time horizons, risk profile, and preferences
• Seek expertise of internal resources to identify investment opportunities and solutions for clients
• Open, transfer, and close customer accounts
• Maintain appropriate account records while monitoring the customer’s portfolio
• Make recommendations consistent with changes in economic and financial conditions and the client’s needs and objectives, considering newly offered investments
• Obtain and verify the customer’s purchase and sale instructions, enter orders, and follow up on completion of transactions
• Complete required program training and assignments, obtain mandatory industry licenses within prescribed time frames, master assessments, and meet minimum performance and production standards
• Stay abreast of investment products, industry rules and regulations, and financial planning
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree (preferred) and a minimum of three (3) years of relevant working experience demonstrating achievement in sales or a business environment
• Experience:
  
  General experience of 3 to 6 years
• Licenses/Certifications:
  
  SIE (within four months of program start);
  Series 7 and Series 66 (within four months of program start);
  Life, Health, and Variable Annuity (within six months of program start)

$31,200.00 – $70,000.00

The Company is an equal‑opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.