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This job is responsible for engaging clients in the lobby to educate and assist with conducting transactions through self-service resources, such as mobile banking, online banking, or ATM. Key responsibilities include accurately and efficiently processing cash transactions for clients as needed. Job expectations include having deep conversations with clients to gain in-depth knowledge of the financial and life priorities and connecting clients to solutions that meet the financial goals.

Responsibilities:

• Executes the bank's risk culture and strives for operational excellence
• Builds relationships with clients to meet financial needs
• Follows established processes and guidelines in daily activities to do what is right for clients and the bank, adhering to all applicable laws and regulations
• Grows business knowledge and network by partnering with experts in small business, lending, and investments
• Manages financial center traffic, appointments, and outbound calls effectively
• Drives the client experience
• Manages cash responsibilities

Required Qualifications:

• Is an enthusiastic, highly motivated self-starter with a strong work ethic and intense focus on results, acting in the best interest of the client
• Collaborates effectively to get things done, building and nurturing strong relationships
• Displays passion, commitment and drive to deliver an experience that improves our clients' financial lives
• Is confident in identifying solutions for new and existing clients based on their needs
• Communicates effectively and confidently and is comfortable engaging all clients
• Has the ability to learn and adapt to new information and technology platforms
• Is confident in educating clients on how to conduct simple banking transactions through self-service technologies (for example, ATM, online banking, mobile banking)
• Applies strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills to meet clients' needs
• Will follow established processes and guidelines in daily activities to do what is right for clients and the bank, adhering to all applicable laws and regulations
• Efficiently manages time and capacity
• Focuses on results while acting in the best interest of the client
• Can be flexible to work weekends and/or extended hours as needed

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in financial services and knowledge of financial services industry, products and solutions
• One year of demonstrated successful sales experience in a salary plus incentive environment with individual sales goals
• Six months of cash handling experience
• Bachelor's Degree or business-relevant Associate’s Degree such as business management, business administration or finance​

Skills:

• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• Customer and Client Focus
• Oral Communications
• Problem Solving
• Account Management
• Client Experience Branding
• Client Management
• Client Solutions Advisory
• Relationship Building
• Business Development
• Pipeline Management
• Prospecting
• Referral Identification
• Referral Management

High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent

Job Description:

Merrill is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

As a
Financial Solutions Advisor within the centralized segment of the Advisor Development Program,your journey begins by obtaining your Securities Industry licenses, where you receive dedicated and personalized classes for your Securities Industry Essentials [SIE], Series 7 and Series 66 Exams. Once you obtain your licenses, you will be taught the foundational skills needed to be an advisor – from acquiring, building and managing client relationships to considering a client’s complex financial picture and guiding them with advice and solutions to help them live their best financial lives, all while humanizing financial interactions. You will then join the centralized team as a Financial Solutions Advisor.

The Financial Solutions Advisors in the centralized segment are phone-based licensed advisors (obtaining series 7 and 66 required) that provide clients with holistic financial advice and guidance by identifying broader product and service solutions that meet their investment, savings and liability management solutions. FSA’s demonstrate knowledge of investments and financial markets and apply key principles appropriate to the individual client's investment needs. Additionally, they align Merrill and Bank of America products and services where appropriate. We will equip you with everything you need, as you move through the stages of development and move into the Merrill Financial Advisor role.

During this stage of your journey, you will receive the necessary training and guidance through a defined path to become the financial advisor you want to be. You will have the opportunity to work with both affluent and high net worth clients, identifying needs, developing relationships, reviewing investment goals, and preparing investment recommendations that align with the goals of both existing and prospective clients. Once you have honed your skills and demonstrated success as an FSA, you typically will progress into the next stage of training and development as a Merrill Financial Solutions Advisor (MFSA). This role within the Advisor Development Program provides the opportunity to pursue a career within Merrill Wealth Management.

We’ll help you

• Build a successful career at Bank of America through world-class training and on-boarding programs that set you up for success.
• Get training and one-on-one coaching from Academy managers who are invested in your success.
• Grow your business knowledge by using a defined consultative approach with clients to systematically identify client needs and appropriate solutions.
• Earn your Security Industry Essentials (SIE), Series 7 and Series 66 licenses (63 & 65 accepted, in lieu of 66) though structured lessons and dedicated study time. You must obtain your SIE within 60 days of being hired & your Series 7 & 66 within 120 Days - a requirement for the role.
• Build your network. Starting at a financial center, you’ll interact with banking customers, small business owners and higher net worth clients alike. You’ll be able to leverage our relationships with one out of two households in the U.S. to help eventually grow your business.
• Provide end-to-end comprehensive advice , deliver client reviews/presentations with confidence and recommend strategies to help clients achieve their financial goals and life priorities.
• Collaborate with core banking and investment partners. Connect clients to all of the solutions we provide through Bank of America and Merrill to meet virtually all of their financial needs.

As an Advisor Development Program Financial Solutions Advisor in the centralized segment you can look forward to

• Unlimited potential for financial growth.
• A strong referral base from across the business through our relationship with one in every two households.
• Managing a portfolio of clients by providing exceptional client care with industry leading products, services, and education.
• Robust marketing support to reach wider audiences with greater appeal.
• Ongoing professional development to deepen your skills and optimize your practice as the industry evolves and changes.
• Opportunities to connect with experts including small business consultants, mortgage lenders and investment advisors.

We’re a culture that

• Believes in responsible growth and has a proven dedication to supporting the communities we serve.
• Provides continuous training and developmental opportunities to help people achieve their goals, whatever their background or experience.
• Believes diversity makes us stronger, so we can reflect, connect to, and meet the diverse needs of our clients and customers around the world.
• Is committed to advancing our tools, technology, and ways of working. We always put our clients first to meet their evolving needs.

Required Qualifications:

• Displays confidence working in a sales role
• Builds strong client relationships through effective communication and collaboration
• Displays a proactive mindset and effective time management
• Demonstrates a results-driven mindset and prioritizes client interests
• Identifies appropriate client solutions through application of learnings and new information
• Applies relevant regulatory due diligence in daily activities and creating long-term client strategies

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or a minimum of one year of financial services industry or sales experience
• Learns and adapts to new technology or applications
• Executes multiple tasks simultaneously

This position is subject to SAFE Act registration requirements. Pursuant to the SAFE Act requirements, all employees engaged in residential loan mortgage originations must register with the federal registry system and remain in good standing. Since this position requires SAFE Act registration, employees are required to register and to submit to the required SAFE Act background check and registration process.

Regular or Temporary:

English (Required)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

1. Assist Financial Advisors in servicing clients including preparing financial plans, conducting investment research and completing client trades and transactions.

2. Receive and place orders as directed from Financial Advisor and assigned clients. Reply to queries regarding general market information such as quotes and news, as well as trading and order features such as GTC expiration dates and settlement.

3. Process corporate actions where a license is warranted, such as tender offers, optional dividends and the exercise of warrants and rights.

4. Schedule and confirm client appointments, enter data in SalesForce, create meeting agendas and summaries, prepare/coordinate marking events and perform general administrative functions such as answer and return calls, manage the expense report process, prepare routine client correspondence and perform maintenance of client records.

5. Manage the financial advisor's calendar to maximize the appointments' productivity by minimizing travel time and anticipating the time frame required for presentation and answering of questions.

6. Maximize sales opportunities by contacting potential investment clients based on internal and bank leads. Use product and industry knowledge to identify existing client, account, and product attributes that present sales potential.

7. Provide operational guidance to Financial Advisors ranging from systems navigation to document fulfillment.

8. Ensure new business paperwork is accurately successfully submitted. This includes preparing forms to be presented to clients, obtaining appropriate signatures, submission and follow-up of new account documentation.

9. Mitigate risk through appropriate authentication standards. This includes the authentication of incoming and outgoing client calls. Required to perform authentication callbacks for high risk transactions, such as third party distributions, profile changes and wires.

10. Maintain a professional environment and create a positive impression.

11. Submit and process certain operational requests as instructed by the Financial Advisor and/or client. These may include: funds distributions, deposits of checks, journals, client and account updates, ACAT initiation and other operational tasks.

12. Work in coordination with the Financial Advisor to ensure certain reports are reviewed and addressed, such as insufficient funds for periodic distributions and RMDs not met.

13. May assist with physical branch location needs, such as opening, closing, general requests for maintenance or service.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and related training.

2. Experience in the securities industry and/or a sales assistant role.

3. Knowledge of securities markets and brokerage accounts.

4. Knowledge of the features and attributes of annuity products.

5. FINRA SIE, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Series 7 and Series 66 licenses. Candidates will be considered if they have at least 1 of the required licenses and can obtain the additional licenses within 365 days of employment.

6. Exceptional telephone skills and the ability to appropriately interact with clients of all experience levels regarding securities transactions and brokerage accounts.

7. Effective time management skills.

8. Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with clients, managers and other teammates.

9. Ability to evaluate, assimilate and utilize detailed and complex written and verbal technical information.

10. Ability to work in a self-directed fashion.

11. Demonstrated proficiency in basic computer applications, such as Microsoft Office software products.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Three years of experience in the securities industry.

2. Previous sales and/or banking experience.

3. Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, finance, banking or equivalent education and related training.

4. Demonstrated experience in a call center or brokerage office environment, preferably focusing on outbound sales calls.

In this role you will:

• Support customer engagement by processing teller transactions, sharing digital solutions, and making appropriate introductions to bankers
• Complete operational activities while minimizing risks under established policies
• Perform routine transactional, operational, and customer support tasks efficiently through knowledge of bank procedures and products, as well as partners across the organization
• Receive direction from managers and exercises judgment within defined policies and procedures
• Escalate questions and issues to more experienced roles
• Interact with customers and individuals to demonstrate care, build relationships, and complete requested transactions
• Identify information and services to meet customers financial needs

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ months of interacting with customers experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 6+ months of experience interacting with people, demonstrated through work, military, or education
• Customer service focus with experience handling complex transactions across multiple systems
• Ability to educate and connect customers to technology and share the value of mobile banking options
• Ability to interact with integrity and professionalism with customers and team members
• Experience working with others on a team to meet customer needs
• Cash handling experience
• Ability to follow policies, procedures, and regulations
• Ability to identify potential fraud/risky accounts and take appropriate action to prevent loss
• Well-organized, independent and able to prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to exercise judgment, raise questions to management, and adhere to policy guidelines
• Relevant military experience including working in personnel benefits management, processing military personnel orders or transitions, wartime readiness operations, human resources or military recruiting
• Proficient with proactively sourcing, acquiring, building, and maintaining relationships with customers and colleagues

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work a schedule that may include most Saturdays
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Posting Location(s):

• 118 Amelon Square Madison Heights, VA 24572

• 17967 Forest Road Forest, VA 24551

• 2304 Langhorne Road Lynchburg, VA 24501

• 3408 Candlers Moutain Road Lynchburg, VA 24502

• 21513 Timberlake Road Lynchburg, VA 24502

Not all branches listed have current openings.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

In this role you will:

• Participate in delivery of exceptional customer experience by building relationships through proactive outreach as well as proposing appropriate products, services, and digital solutions to help customers succeed financially
• Assist customers with basic requests related to opening new accounts, completing service requests, and submitting credit applications
• Receive direction from managers and exercise judgement within defined policies and procedures
• Develop understanding of bank products and services to connect to customers' needs
• Interact with customers to demonstrate care and build relationships
• Provide appropriate options for bank products and services to customer
• Refer customers' financial needs to other bankers and partners as needed
• This SAFE position has customer contact and job duties which may include the offering/negotiating of terms and/or taking an application for a dwelling secured transaction. As such, this position requires compliance with the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 and all related regulations. Ongoing employment is contingent upon meeting all such requirements, including acceptable background investigation results. Individuals in a SAFE position also must meet the Loan Originator requirements under Regulation Z (LO) outlined in the job expectations below

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ months of interacting with customers experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Customer service focus with experience handling complex transactions across multiple systems
• Experience proactively engaging with customers through outreach via phone or email
• Ability to educate and connect customer to technology and share the value of mobile banking options
• Ability to help customers succeed financially by offering introductions to additional team members as appropriate
• Experience working with others on a team to meet customer needs
• Experience fostering and developing strong customer relationships
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal partners
• Ability to follow policies, procedures, and regulations
• Ability to identify potential fraud/risky accounts and take appropriate action to prevent loss
• Ability to interact with integrity and professionalism with customers and team members
• Relevant military experience including working with military protocol and instructions, enlisted evaluations, officer/leadership reporting
• Relevant military experience including working in personnel benefits management, processing military personnel orders or transitions, wartime readiness operations, human resources or military recruiting
• Proficient with proactively sourcing, acquiring, building, and maintaining relationships with customers and colleagues
• Support customers and employees in resolving or escalating concerns or complaints

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work a schedule that may include most Saturdays
• Maintains cash drawer, cash handling and balancing and spends time completing service-related tasks as needed

• This position requires SAFE registration at the time of employment. Wells Fargo will initiate the SAFE registration process immediately after your employment start date. The Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) website(http://fedregistry.nationwidelicensingsystem.org)provides the MU4R questions and registration required for employment in this position. Individuals in Loan Originator (LO) positions must meet the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau qualification requirements and comply with related Wells Fargo policies. The LO qualification requirements include meeting applicable financial responsibility, character, general financial fitness and criminal background standards. A current credit report will be used to assess your financial responsibility and credit fitness, however, a credit score is not included as part of the evaluation. Successful candidates must also meet ongoing regulatory requirements including additional screening, if necessary
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Posting Location(s):

• 17967 Forest Road Forest, VA 24551

• 2304 Langhorne Road Lynchburg, VA 24501

• 3408 Candlers Moutain Road Lynchburg, VA 24502

• 21513 Timberlake Road Lynchburg, VA 24502

Not all branches listed have current openings

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

Job Description:

Regular or Temporary:

English (Required)