Financial Associate Job Description
Financial associate
provides timely research and documentation regarding SEC / FASB reporting issues, including benchmarking regarding new accounting standards and / or accounting issues.
Financial Associate Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective financial associate job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included financial associate job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Develop and implement annual marketing plan to meet client acquisition goals
Contact prospects to set up meetings or appointments
Coordinate seminars and client appreciation events
Leverage natural market and implement client referral program
Implement key marketing activities
Identify over payments and under-recovery of credits due to HP
Facilitates solutions to transaction processing problems
Administers the collection, maintenance, reporting, and presentation of account information
Prints, binds and mails completed financial plans to branch offices
Communicates with Financial Advisors to obtain necessary information for plan preparation
Financial Associate Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Financial Associate
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPA, CFP, MBA, ACAMS, CMA, IFRS, ICWA, CA, NCFM, AMFI
Education for Financial Associate
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the financial associate job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Associates, Accounting, Education, Finance, Business, Communication, Financial Analysis, Technical, Economics, Human Resources
Skills for Financial Associate
Desired skills for financial associate include:
Accounting principles and International Financial Reporting Standards Accounting
Finance & accounting systems
Excel
RTR processes
Microsoft Word
Outlook
Bloomberg desirable
Morningstar
Standard bookkeeping and accounting procedures
Research compliance issues & of key federal grant regulations
Desired experience for financial associate includes:
Analytical ability, persistence and an entrepreneurial perspective
To be an associate financial advisor, you will need to already have fed and state licenses and registrations for securities – including Series 7, 66, and state life, accident, and health insurance licenses
70% oral and written English
May develop spreadsheets, PowerPoints and other project items as necessary
May assist with filing plans and file maintenance of financial plans
Series 7 and 63, or 66 within 6 months of hire
Financial Associate Examples
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Financial Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of financial associate. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for financial associate
- Build relationships and maintain effective communication and coordination between the department, other departments, the Board of Governors, and/or other external customers
- Identify and implement operational improvements and business process re-engineering strategies to enhance the department’s performance, manage risk, and benchmark to industry best practice
- Establish and monitor internal control processes
- Contribute to the department strategic plan
- Participate in strategic planning discussions, proposing short and long term plans in discussion with department leadership team
- Plan, co-ordinate and direct completion of audited annual and un-audited interim accounts with all parties auditors, printers and translators
- Assist with the review and analysis of budgeted department distributions and support tables for compliance and work with business areas to make all necessary changes
- Provide a broad range of financial consulting/planning services to our individual customers/participants at existing mega and large institutions ensuring asset retention and growth
- Communicate with carriers and vendors
- Ad hoc projects as training within other areas of the Human Capital Practice
Qualifications for financial associate
- Analytical skills and understanding of deposit and loan transactions
- Must have sound judgment, attention to detail, internet savvy
- Knowledge of Bank Secrecy Act and USA PATRIOT acts
- CFP or CFA designation preferred
- Must have excellent communication, organizational, and client relationship skills
- CFP or CFA designation plus
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Our company is looking for a financial associate. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for financial associate
- Creates maintains client files and verifies all paperwork has been properly completed for each type of account
- Assists bank associates to increase referral opportunities
- Attends various sales meetings and events
- Assures all forms are available for Financial Advisor and orders supplies as needed
- Follows established accounts payable, finance and SOX procedures
- Ensures compliance to internal controls
- Assists with month end, quarter end and year end activities
- Responsible for accurate and timely preparation of finance entries, records, documents, reconciliations and other financial material
- Assists in proper storage and disposal of department records
- Corresponds with internal and external customers and vendors to resolve questions and issues in a timely manner
Qualifications for financial associate
- Position requires travel to different branch locations
- Must have a valid CA Class C license
- Candidates should have ACCA, ACA, CIMA or CPA part qualified
- Have a willingness to learn and develop themselves, and to take on new responsibilities
- Be an excellent team player and able to work collaboratively with others and share knowledge
- Strong communication skills both written and oral with proven experience in influencing senior stakeholders and ability to summarise complex information into concise and value adding insights
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of financial associate. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for financial associate
- Participates in the annual budget process by compiling cost information for business units to use in preparing budgets
- Assists in month end profit and loss post closing procedures
- Prepares, Supervises, and provides quality control to the preparation of complex analytical and financial reports and presentations
- Familiar with all financial applications within FP&A and has an understanding of the data relations and interdependencies
- Able to work collaboratively across all Support Unit CFO teams, identifying best practices and process efficiencies
- Produce more complex financial reports regarding trends, variances, profitability and performance measurement
- Establish overhead budgets, track performance, and provide variance analysis for our Project Management Organization (PMO)
- Prepare weekly labor analysis reports
- Support monthly Operation Analysis reporting
- Support quarterly Estimates At Completion (EAC)
Qualifications for financial associate
- This job description is issued as a guideline to assist you in your duties, it is not exhaustive and we would be pleased to discuss any constructive comments you may have
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Math or Finance
- Degree preferred but not required in accounting, finance, economics, mathematics, communications or business
- Analytical abilities with an attention for detail
- Must be able to adapt and learn new processes and regulations
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related area or a Bachelor’s degree with advanced accounting coursework and two years auditing, cost account, and/or financial analysis experience
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Our growing company is hiring for a financial associate. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for financial associate
- Metrics and Evaluation
- Accesses computerized financial information to answer general questions those related to specific accounts
- Performs general office duties (e.g., files
- Balances petty cash (e.g., reconciles receipts & cash to authorized level
- Makes travel arrangements for staff
- Enters, reconciles & maintains asset records in asset management system (e.g., labels new asset
- Contacts prospective vendors to establish in OAKS & agency system or modifies vendor information
- Review investment funding and disposition activity recorded in the equity leverage file and the ledger
- Oversee the execution of all daily processing activity (credit facility, wires, investment allocations, leverage allocations, currency)
- Review daily reconciliations of cash, control accounts and investments amongst various BX systems
Qualifications for financial associate
- Basic understanding of sales techniques and cross-referral concepts
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in the food industry strongly preferred
- A minimum of five years of combined advisory or relevant industry experience in financial management and an understanding of complete financial analysis process
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and/or Finance from an accredited college/university
- Must have basic computing skills
- Works using own initiative and without close supervision
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a financial associate. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for financial associate
- Performs multiple diverse and complex sponsored research administration responsibilities for the group
- Manage the NIH T32 training grants for all 3 programs
- Prepares complex grant reports on an ad hoc basis
- Processes corrective journals to general ledger, oversees invoice payments
- Prepare and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
- Conduct account and performance analyses
- Handle investor, management, and regulatory reporting for multiple legal entities transacting in global capital markets
- Fielding bespoke requests from various internal groups including senior management
- Perform new member recruitment cost analysis and product comparison ensuring accurate and clinically sound illustration of program benefits
- Act as product cross-reference subject matter expert
Qualifications for financial associate
- Ability to manage against measurable, specific results and targets
- Experience working with nonprofit institutions
- Very organized with a strong ability to get things done quickly and efficiently
- A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and a minimum of one year’s comparable work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Experience working within a virtual team environment is a plus
- Bachelor's Degree preferably in business, finance, economics, math or relative area of study