Registered Private Wealth Client Associate Houston, Texas **Job Description:** Merrill Wealth Management is a leading provider of comprehensive wealth management and investment products and services for individuals, companies, and institutions. Merrill Wealth Management is one of the largest businesses of its kind in the world specializing in goals-based wealth management, including planning for retirement, education, legacy, and other life goals through investment advice and guidance. Merrill’s Financial Advisors and Wealth Management Client Associates help clients pursue the life they envision through a personal relationship with their advisory team committed to their needs. We believe trust comes from transparency. Our trusted advisory teams are equipped with access to the investment insights of Merrill coupled with the banking convenience of Bank of America. At Merrill, we empower you to bring your whole self to work. We value diversity in our thoughts, business, and within our employees and clients. Our Wealth Management team represents an array of different backgrounds and bring their unique perspectives, ideas and experiences, helping to create a work community that is culture driven, resilient, results focused and effective. **Job Description:** This job is responsible for providing client service support to potentially multiple Financial Advisors (FAs). Key responsibilities include supporting enterprise strategic objectives, operational excellence goals, and client advocacy within the FA's business, while customizing solutions based on their specific needs. Job expectations include serving as the most frequent point of contact within Merrill to address all service needs of their clients. **Responsibilities:** + Provides excellent Client Service to the bank's clients through educating them on all of the bank's service and banking offerings + Ensures timeliness, accuracy, and completeness in client materials and follows up on all client and Financial Advisor (FA) requests + Assists with ensuring practices are in alignment with the bank's policies and procedures to support operational excellence, protect the bank's clients, and manage risk + Identifies, deepens, and maintains client relationships through emphasizing the bank's offerings and promoting incorporation of banking into day-to-day practices, while communicating outputs to the FA + Supports day-to-day team activities and needs including covering roles in times of absence or seasonal need increases, while leading with a client first mindset **Required Qualifications:** + **SIE, Series 7, 63/65 or 66** + Displays advancedindustry knowledge and understanding of investment products **Desired Qualifications:** + Energetic individual that is self-motivated, coachable, and flexible in thought + Enjoys a fast-paced environment with changing and evolving responsibility + Detail oriented + Invested in personal development + Consistently pursues client experience excellence + Works quickly to fulfill client needs delivering complex solutions + Frequent communication and an abundance of discretion with sensitive information + Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint experience with Salesforce a plus + Professional verbal and written communication​ **Skills:** + Account Management + Client Management + Customer and Client Focus + Issue Management + Oral Communications + Business Development + Client Solutions Advisory + Pipeline Management + Prioritization + Administrative Services + Emotional Intelligence + Referral Identification + Written Communications **Minimum Education Requirement:** High School Diploma / GED / Secondary School or equivalent **Shift:** 1st shift (United States of America) **Hours Per Week:** 37.5 Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. 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