Wealth Planner

The opportunity:

The Wealth Planner supports Manulife Wealth’s independent advisors to enhance their delivery of wealth planning solutions to their clients. This role operates on a national basis with a team-based approach. The incumbent will leverage their financial planning expertise, digital tools, and soft skills to create financial plans and enable our clients to make better financial decisions. This role interfaces directly with clients, advisors, and other internal partners to develop and deliver financial plans and recommendations for implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Support advisors with expertise in financial planning to create comprehensive financial plans on their behalf for their clients
• Conduct meaningful client discoveries in a manner that fosters rapport and trust
• Create financial plans in Conquest that address the clients goals, needs, priorities, and values
• Identify issues, opportunities, and strategies in all areas of financial planning including retirement, tax, insurance, and estate planning
• Collaborate with Insurance Consultants, Tax and Estate Planner, and other internal partners to provide required expertise and implementation
• Present financial plans to clients in a manner that reduces complexity
• Key contributor to the client experience, owning key action items and steps in the planning process including end communication
• Strong ability to prioritize resources and deliverables based on caseloads and client meeting schedule
• Maintain clear records of client notes, inputs, and planning recommendations
• Maintain ongoing expertise with industry related matters, rules and regulations that impact financial planning strategies and recommendations
• Carrying out independent research to ensure issues and opportunities within the plan are addressed
• Promote the adoption of wealth planning software in line with Manulife’s strategy.
• Collaborate with the Practice Management and Wealth Planning Services team to gather and share advisor feedback
• Provide secondary support to wealth planning software users including answering questions and modeling a broad range of wealth planning concepts and strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to influence without direct authority, and highly effective negotiation and collaboration skills; proven success in building and managing relationships.
• Strong ability to present complex ideas clearly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent customer focus and commitment to quality while still meeting deadlines.
• Strategic problem solver with a keen attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and engage
• Excellent organizational skills, with an emphasis on prioritizing and executing tasks efficiently in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications:

• 5 to 8 years experience developing comprehensive financial plans
• University Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience in a Financial Services role
• Financial planning designation (e.g., CFP® or Pl. Fin.) is required
• Additional designations such as CLU, TEP, CA, CPA are an asset
• Ability to interpret and communicate technical information to a non-technical audience.

• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Team player.
• You believe in an integrated wealth management approach for helping clients.
• You have a deep understanding of financial services and wealth management.
• Confidence, maturity and credibility to interact with senior-level business leaders and top advisors.
• Professional demeanor, excellent communication and relationship skills.
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills.
• The successful candidate will be required to communicate in English and French in order to support clients from various jurisdictions outside of Quebec.

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact recruitment@manulife.com.

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Salary range is expected to be between

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact recruitment@manulife.com for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact recruitment@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.