Wealth Management Intern

Spend your summer gaining hands-on experience alongside Aspiriant’s wealth management professionals, including Certified Financial Planners, Chartered Financial Analysts, and Certified Public Accountants. During this eight-week internship in our New York City office (early June through late July), you will collaborate with multiple client service teams and gain insight into how a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) helps high-net-worth clients achieve their financial goals. You will support Wealth Managers with client meeting preparation, long-term financial planning, net worth and cash flow statements, and other financial analyses. Through meaningful projects, mentorship, and exposure to teams across the firm, you'll develop practical skills and gain a deeper understanding of career opportunities in wealth management.

We are Aspiriant, a leading, independent, 100% employee-owned wealth management firm. Our core values guide us to seek out a broad range of perspectives, talent, and backgrounds to achieve our mission; one where all staff contribute to and share our success. We recognize, respect and value the contributions of each employee, and we strive to cultivate a work environment that strikes an agreeable balance between our professional and personal lives. 

• Collaborative work environment – Together, We Achieve More
• Environment supportive to learning and growing your career
• Hybrid work arrangement
• Social opportunities with Aspiriant professionals and local leaders in the industry
• Industry experience will apply towards CFP experience requirement
• A fantastic opportunity to apply academic learning to real life financial planning cases and get firsthand training
• The opportunity to network with Aspiriant Wealth Managers from across the country
• A wonderful experience to put on your resume
• Potential to work for our firm in the future
• 8- week program from early June to end of July

How you will contribute:

• Work with experienced CFP professionals on tasks that successfully take you through the financial planning process. This includes but is not limited to gathering financial information to prepare net worth and cash flow statements, learning client’s goals, creating a customized plan and making recommendations around investments, insurance and estate planning.
• Become proficient in using our financial planning software
• Prepare long-term capital sufficiency analyses by inputting client’s financial planning assumptions, such as personal financial goals, current financial data, tax rates, and inflation and investment assumptions, into our financial planning software 
• Proactively assist Wealth Managers with client meeting preparation
• Potential to observe client meetings
• Participate in a series of training sessions (Personal and Professional Development, Business Development, Investment Strategy and Research)
• Prepare and present a series of mock client meetings, including onboarding and common client life events that would impact their financial plan

Is this you?

An ideal candidate will be motivated by our mission to empower families to take control of their financial lives, live their values with clarity and peace of mind, and actualize their dreams. We seek out a wide range of talented team members who share our values and vision. We value intellectual intensity, collaboration, and compassion. A strategic partner once compared us to “a cocker spaniel.” We like the comparison. Our relationships with clients are professional first and foremost. They’re also warm, passionate and genuine. 

The attributes and talents that lead to success in the role are:

Knowledge:

• Proficiency in Excel and Word required 

Skills:

• Effective communication skills – both written and verbal

Abilities:

• Initiative-taking with good judgement and integrity
• Impeccable ability to maintain confidentiality
• A collaborator  

Experience and Education:

We will consider any combination of experience and education which provides the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job. A typical way to acquire the requirements would be:

• Working towards a bachelor’s degree. Prefer majors in financial planning, accounting, finance, or economics and/or candidates who are seeking a Certificate in Financial Planning in the future.
• Coursework in personal financial planning is a plus (e.g.: retirement planning, employee benefits, insurance, investment vehicles, asset allocation, estate planning techniques, income taxation, and executive compensation)  
• Participation in financial planning-related campus clubs, financial planning mentorship programs, or other financial planning organizations.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

Primarily sedentary work in an office with minimal distractions; walking throughout the office. Learn and memorize tasks; execute tasks independently; apply knowledge and use judgment to manage situations. Occasionally exert up to ten pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Perform repetitive motions; substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and fingers for computer keyboard operation. Use near visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing documents, operating a computer, and reading. Speak and hear to communicate with team members and clients by phone and in-person.

Aspiriant is committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging.  

A diverse and inclusive culture is essential to providing the best to both our clients and our people. Including a variety of perspectives in all that we do is necessary for our innovation and growth. We envision a firm where our people see a community they belong to and an inspiring future…a firm where people can be themselves, learning is limitless, and everyone can thrive.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer that believes in and follows Fair Chance Ordinances, we are committed to employment practices that ensure that employees and applicants for employment are provided with equal opportunities without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other factor that is not related to the position.

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Aspiriant is a Registered Investment Adviser, subject to SEC regulation, and requires all employees (and at times, family members) to disclose securities holding and transactions. There are also restrictions on trading certain securities. Candidates are encouraged to request further information regarding these policies.