Kowalski Financial (KF) is a small independent fee-only RIA Wealth Management firm with a purpose. Our Wealth Management practice provides comprehensive solutions incorporating financial planning, investment management, tax planning, and preparation. Our purpose is governed by a dynamic internal business culture centered on leadership development guided by democratic principles, standards, and practices. Each of our employees impacts decision-making, policy-making, and problem-solving, participating in operational and developmental processes that contribute to the common good. Check out: https://activecitizen.org
We seek a collaborative Financial Advisor/Relationship Manager to partner with our Senior Wealth Manager in providing exceptional client service. This role involves cultivating strong client relationships, effectively preparing for client meetings, developing client financial strategies, engaging in our Active Citizenship and Leadership training, and ensuring client satisfaction through proactive follow-up and client contact. This is a rewarding opportunity with significant growth potential, including a pathway for advancement to a senior position and equity ownership. Responsibilities include:
Client Relationship Management:
- Build and strengthen client relationships.
- Prepare for and participate in client meetings
- Respond to client inquiries and proactively connect with clients.
Financial Planning & Advisory:
- Assist with financial planning strategies across all areas of wealth management.
- Collaborate with stakeholders in constructing and managing client financial plans.
- Proactively assist in the construction and management of client financial plans.
Teamwork & Collaboration:
- Work with the Lead/Senior Wealth Manager to prepare for client meetings.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders in constructing and managing clients’ financial plans.
- Participate as a member of the firm's Investment Committee.
Operational Support & Compliance:
- Actively engage in and support company business plans, standards, and processes.
- Ensure all services are delivered in a timely fashion.
- Contribute to the quarterly financial planning newsletter.
Professional Development:
- Ongoing technical skills development expected and supported.
- Develop governing capacity as an Active Citizen/Civic leadership through KF educational track and civic infrastructure.
- Civic leadership through our civic infrastructure is a requirement.
We require a related bachelor’s degree, and 1 - 5+ years of work experience in a client service, financial planning, or financial advisory role, required. CFP or commitment to obtain CFP within 3 years required. Proficiency in technology including MS Office and industry-related programs and platforms such as, E-Money, Hubly, Assetbook, and Charles Schwab, required. We seek an outgoing and personable individual with excellent verbal and written communication, organizational and problem-solving skills, and a commitment to learning how to integrate democratic principles and processes using civic principles and standards through daily work.
Kowalski Financial offers work/life balance with a standard 36-hour work week, a hybrid work option, competitive base compensation, a bonus plan and benefits including 401K with 6% matching, health insurance with generous HSA contribution, PTO, dental, STD/LTD, and Life Insurance. As part of Kowalski Financial, our employees benefit from our Civic Business infrastructure that develops the capacity and skills to support and sustain democracy. For more information about our firm, visit our website www.kowalskifinancial.com To apply, submit your resume here to Red Seat, our outsourced recruiting team, or contact Red Seat at (651) 317-9211 for more information. We will confirm receipt of your resume within two business days.
Kowalski Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Overview of Civic Business:
Kowalski Financial Identity Statement: Kowalski Financial is a civic business. All stakeholders are obligated to organize, educate, and set policy according to democratic principles and standards to transform and sustain democracy as the means to advance justice in 21st-century environmental-economic-social conditions. We do this in partnership with other demonstrations of the Midwest Active Citizenship Initiative.
Policy Issue: Business has a scale of impact in our democracy that makes it especially important to develop a sustainable intergenerational way for companies to thrive while contributing to sustaining democracy as a just system of governance. To meet this need, the Civic Business Policy Agenda calls for a new business model that develops civic imagination, civic capacity, and the civic infrastructure while achieving business goals that advance the common good.
All Kowalski Financial Operations are governed by a new model called a Civic Business Model and all employees actively engage in developing their capacity through daily work to govern for the common good as active citizens and civic leaders. We support this development through our civic infrastructure and educational track.
A civic business builds the capacity of business institutions to develop active citizens and civic leaders within their organizations.
Kowalski Financials (KF’s) leaders see the need for a new business model that develops civic imagination, civic capacity, and the civic infrastructure needed for democracy to be a just system of governance. People who work at Kowalski Financial will experience this institution as something new and different. Often there's a certain amount of surprise and satisfaction that we ask all stakeholders, even those in entry-level positions, to be involved in policy-making and to contribute to promoting justice and the common good in the workplace. Civic principles, standards, disciplines and skills are at the core of how we teach and practice civic governing.
