Key Private Bank Fiduciary Strategist

Location: 225 Asylum Street, Suite 1910 - Hartford, Connecticut 06103

The Fiduciary Strategist is responsible for fulfilling the fiduciary responsibilities of Key Bank by providing client advisory services to high net worth clients and their beneficiaries. As a member of the KPB relationship management team, they represent the local / in market delivery for clients with appropriate revenue and advisory needs. The Fiduciary Strategist proactively collaborates with team members to build insights and solutions to attract, retain and grow client relationships.

This role is entrusted with the responsibility of delivering the KPB fiduciary mandate to ensure consistent advisory delivery, while managing fiduciary risk.

They advise clients in their book as well as those in their market in accordance high professional standards. In the course of serving clients, the Strategist identifies opportunities to protect, grow and transition family wealth. They deliver national expertise locally through the engagement of Wealth Services or other Specialty Services Teams as an extension of the market team. The Strategist retains and deepens profitable client relationships within assigned revenue base while actively producing new revenue to achieve both team and individual production goals.

• Leads the delivery of fiduciary advice as part of client servicing and execution of the client experience
• Develops a strong understanding of family relationships and the needs of current clients as well as beneficiaries

• Obtain and reviews and monitors all estate planning documents periodically to ensure that they fit individual client's current circumstances
• Analyzes and interprets legal instruments to determine duties and responsibilities of bank and to provide well-coordinated estate, tax and financial planning alternatives to meet client's needs

• Facilitate the estate, tax, and philanthropic planning process for all relationships regardless of whether Key serves as trustee
• Identifies a potential trust and estate tax-related issues and works with the client and external advisors to resolve
• Collaborates with external client advisors (attorneys, accountants, etc.) to deliver advice

• Works closely with the Relationship Management Team to identify and prioritize opportunities to deepen relationships
• Identifies Investment Management and Trust Opportunities as well as any other banking, lending or insurance needs
• Fosters close business relationships to develop client loyalty and new business opportunities

• Assess client revenue opportunity based on complexity and service required. Actively participate in pricing conversations for new KPB opportunities and proactively seek for opportunities to reduce discounts on existing client pricing to move revenue closer to the national schedule.

• Leads the relationship development and engagement for beneficiaries
• Leads the onboarding process for new clients in partnership with the Relationship Team
• Demonstrates community leadership through active participation on boards and professional organizations

• Responsible for engaging appropriate fiduciary partners to support administration or expertise in the delivery of client advice
• If appropriate, may function as the lead contact on a client relationship while engaging a Relationship Manager to ensure that a complete and positive client experience is achieved and maintained
• Responsible for retaining and deepening the relationship with a client including the next generation
• Responsible contributing to the development of the annual client plan and actively participates in the execution

• Demonstrates experience working directly and independently with clients and families with a broad array of estate and financial planning issues which often arise with wealthy clients (including but not limited to distribution planning, philanthropic goals and tools, retirement planning)
• Demonstrates awareness of state specific estate and tax planning issues
• Maintains deep expertise in fiduciary, investment, tax, and other related wealth issues by keeping current as to estate and tax law changes through legal education opportunities
• Shares intellectual capital with the Relationship Management Team as part of the pre-call and weekly sales meeting
• Administers complex accounts with a proactive, disciplined, consistent and comprehensive approach

• Fulfills Key's fiduciary responsibilities with utmost adherence to all internal fiduciary policies and procedures, regulatory and legal requirements
• Anticipates and mitigates risk on assigned accounts
• Assumes accountability for all delegated fiduciary administrative work on assigned accounts
• Advises relationship managers and all other partners on all internal fiduciary issues
• Work closely with Sales Leader, Regional Trust Director and local team members on pricing, client service, compliance and litigation issues, as…