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Lead Financial Planner

Clark Asset Management
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/12/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/12/2025

Apply for this Full-Time Virtual Lead Planner position ONLY IF YOU BELIEVE WHAT WE BELIEVE :

  • Charging a Flat Fee for Planning & Investment management is clearly better for clients than a % AUM fee (which drives excessive fees and is rife with conflicts)
  • Lead Planners do their best work serving clients and NOT prospecting for them
  • A Lead Planner's core purpose is to help clients achieve the feeling of relaxed confidence in their financial lives
  • Great heroes for a Lead Planner include Jack Bogle, Wade Pfau, Bill Sharpe, Fama & French
  • Lead Planner core values should include Service, Curiosity, Transparency, Humility & Tenacity
  • Personal finance is 80% personal and 20% finance

We're a disruptive band of flat fee retirement income experts providing outstanding client service. We're about to pass $1B at Schwab, and we're having a lot of fun.

So, do you believe what we believe?

MUST HAVE" QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience and Credentials
  • Hold your CFP designation

  • 7 years of analytically rigorous financial planning
  • 3 years running high net worth relationships
  • 10 years of total work experience
  • Planning and Analytical Chops
  • Created (from scratch) 200 complete financial plans in leading software (MoneyGuide Pro, eMoney, or RightCapital), at least 75 of which have been for high net worth

  • True Expert in at least one of the 3 leading financial planning softwares to the point where you can confidently test multiple scenarios, create custom reports, conduct insurance needs analysis, evaluate tax planning strategies, and more
  • Microsoft Excel geek - pushing data around, using pivot tables, lookup tables, driving insights that you can't drive from planning software
  • Excellent Communicator and Cultural Fit
  • Very clear thinker and communicator (verbal & written)

  • Well organized and respectful of client service standards (deadlines)
  • Very good at detailed work AND "connecting" it to the bigger picture and seeing how your planning tasks at hand dovetail into the broader client situation
  • Very comfortable saying "I don't know" and "I need help"
  • Consistently demonstrate our core values (curiosity, tenacity. service, rigor, clarity)
  • NICE TO HAVE" QUALIFICATIONS

  • Expertise in MoneyGuidePro
  • Bring something new to the table to expand the capability of our team (e.g. CPA, CFA, Trading, Behavior, etc.)
  • Experience in an RIA (preferably fee-only & growth oriented)
  • Familiarity with Schwab
  • Track record of effective remote work
  • Track record of thriving in a small company "start-up" culture
  • COMPENSATION PACKAGE

  • Full-time W2
  • 120K Base and 25% Target Bonus (with clear path to $200K )
  • 401-K Match (4%)
  • Health, Dental, & Vision
  • Long-Term Disability, HSA, Dependent Care FSA
  • Professional development stipend
  • Unlimited PTO - Just get your work done!
  • Salary : $120,000

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