Supervisor, Operations

The Supervisor, Operations leads a brokerage operations team responsible for delivering timely, accurate, and high-quality service to financial professionals, advisors, broker-dealers, and internal business partners. This role oversees day-to-day work distribution, service levels, quality standards, escalations, and process adherence while helping remove barriers that affect team performance. The Supervisor partners with internal departments, business leaders, vendors, training, quality control, and escalation resources to resolve operational issues, improve processes, and support a consistent advisor experience. Success in this role is measured by team performance against service, quality, productivity, risk, and compliance expectations, as well as the development and engagement of direct reports.

• Lead and manage a brokerage operations team to ensure processes, guidelines, service levels, quality standards, and key metrics are achieved or exceeded. Approximately 10 direct reports. 
• Review daily volumes, queues, team capacity, and performance metrics; adjust work distribution and priorities to support timely completion of operational work.
• Identify process issues, analyze root causes, and recommend practical improvements that strengthen efficiency, quality, service consistency, and risk mitigation.
• Partner with quality control, escalation, compliance, technology, training, and other operational partners to resolve complex issues and implement agreed-upon fixes.
• Hold regular team meetings and one-on-one discussions to communicate priorities, review performance, coach employees, and remove barriers to effective performance.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, development, performance feedback, and career growth for direct reports in partnership with leaders and support functions.
• Maintain strong working relationships with internal departments, external vendors, and business leaders to support effective service delivery and issue resolution.
• Monitor, reinforce, and contribute to policies, procedures, and written supervisory procedures to support compliant, consistent, and well-controlled operations.
• Prepare and share applicable operational updates, metrics, and recommendations with leaders, business partners, or governance groups as needed.

• High school diploma or GED required; bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, or a related field preferred.

• Experience in customer service, brokerage operations, or financial services operations; prior experience leading, supervising, or coaching a team.

• Licenses or certifications: Series 99 or Series 7

• Preferred experience includes brokerage operations, advisor support, service center operations, quality control, escalation handling, vendor management, process improvement, or compliance-focused operational environments.

The base salary range for this role in St. Cloud, MN is $63,000- $85,000, plus a competitive performance-based bonus. Base salary depends on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, certifications, and location. Salary range may also differ significantly due to geography and cost of labor considerations.

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About Us

What we give you in return:

Not many teams can say that they support people’s dreams coming to life. We happen to do that every day. And as important as we know your career is, we recognize that there’s a whole lot more to life. To ensure that our employees can make the most of their time outside of working hours, we offer a competitive salary and for full-time roles, a benefits package including:

• Inclusive health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans built to support diverse lifestyles, offer preventative care, and protect against hardship.
• Easy access to mental health benefits to meet our team members and their families where they are.
• 20+ days of paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, and 2 paid wellness days to give our employees the time they need to stay close with their loved ones, recharge, and give back to their communities.
• 401(k) savings plan with a generous company contribution (up to 5%), and access to a financial professional to offer our employees the opportunity to plan-ahead for a strong financial future well beyond their working years.
• Paid parental leave to support all team members with birth, adoption, and fostering.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Account options to help you save money on healthcare, daycare, commuting, and more.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), LifeLock, Pet Insurance and more.
• Paid caregiver leave to provide time away from work when caring for an ill or recovering family member.
• Additional benefits such as an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), identity theft protection (LifeLock), pet insurance, and other voluntary benefits to provide extra peace of mind

About Cetera

Cetera Financial Group® (Cetera) is a leading network of independent retail broker-dealers and registered investment advisers empowering the delivery of objective financial advice to individuals, families, and company retirement plans across the country through trusted financial advisors and financial institutions. Cetera is one of the largest independent financial advisor networks in the nation and a leading provider of retail services to the investment programs of banks and credit unions.

Advisor support resources offered through Cetera include award-winning wealth management and advisory platforms, comprehensive broker-dealer and registered investment adviser services, practice management support, and innovative technology.

Cetera Financial Group (Cetera) is a network of independent retail firms, including those that are members of FINRA/SIPC: Cetera Advisors LLC; Cetera Wealth Services, LLC (formerly known as Cetera Advisor Networks); Cetera Investment Services LLC (marketed as Cetera Financial Institutions or Cetera Investors); and Cetera Financial Specialists LLC. Entities registered as investment advisers with the Securities and Exchange Commission include Cetera Investment Management LLC and Cetera Investment Advisers LLC. Cetera's principal office is located at 655 W. Broadway, 11th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101. Avantax Planning Partners, Inc. is an SEC registered investment adviser within the Aretec Group, Inc. (dba Cetera Holdings, an affiliate of Cetera). All the referenced entities are under common ownership.

Cetera Financial Group is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. For us, this is the only acceptable way to do business. Accordingly, all employment decisions at Cetera Financial Group, including those relating to hiring, promotion, transfers, benefits, compensation, and placement, will be made without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic characteristics, religion, religious dress and/or grooming, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, U.S. military status, political affiliation, or any other class protected by state and/or federal law.

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