Financial Advisor Trainee
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Multiple positions available in many cities across the country. Please visit Raymond James Career Opportunities to apply. or you can search under Career Opportunities www.raymondjames.com. Job Summary: Prospect for and retain clients in order to enable those clients to reach their financial goals based on their objectives, time horizon, and risk tolerance. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: · Evaluates customers in terms of financial needs, current holdings, and available investment capital and helps them identify their investment objectives. · Provides customers and prospective customers with information on investments and makes suitable recommendations. · Seeks business for the broker-dealer through customers and potential customers. · Opens, transfers, and closes customer accounts and maintains appropriate account records. · Explains the organization, participants, and functions of various securities markets and the principal factors that affect them. · Obtains and verifies the customer's purchase and sale instructions, enters orders, and follows up on completion of transactions. · Monitors the customer's portfolio and makes recommendations consistent with changes in economic and financial conditions as well as the customer's needs and objectives, taking newly offered investments into consideration. · Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of: · Economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data. · Company’s working structure, policies, mission, strategies, and compliance guidelines. Skill in: · Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets, and databases. · Preparing and delivering clear, effective, and professional presentations. · Identifying the needs of customers through effective questioning and listening techniques. Ability to: · Organize, manage, and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment. · Continuously learn investment products, industry rules and regulations, and financial planning. · Use appropriate interpersonal styles and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels. · Articulate reasons behind decisions. · Keep all appropriate parties up-to-date on decisions, changes, and other relevant information. · Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others. · Network in the community, effectively market him or herself and Raymond James, and show resilience through the prospecting process. · Provide a high level of customer service.
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