• Job Description

  Req#: WEALT004872

  Vancity is the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada. Come join our team of 2,700 diverse individuals and access competitive rewards & benefits, all while knowing you are a part of a greater movement.

  Are you excited to support Vancity's values towards Socially Responsible Investing options to new investors? Have you always looked forward to retaining valuable and high-potential members to support organizational growth targets? If yes, this role brings the possibility to explore your passion.

  This is a Full time, Permanent role located at Langford Community Branch (Br 69) and reports directly to the Branch Manager of your branch with a dotted line accountability to your Regional Manager of Sustainable Wealth Solutions.

  The Role: Wealth Relationship Manager

  • The Wealth Relationship Manager (WRM) provides exceptional service to current and potential members by offering a full range of deposit, investment, and credit advice. The WRM identifies the member’s place in their lifecycle, engaging in rich discovery conversations, and recommending solutions to meet their customized needs. This must happen while working with a broad network of specialists, in a seamless, collaborative way, to provide a holistic advice experience.
  • Relationship building is key as is being relatable, to provide individualized advice or engage with the appropriate specialist colleague. The WRM will manage member contact in-person, over the phone and virtually with comfort, maintaining a forward-looking approach to their contact plan. The WRM will be able to process a full range of complex transactions that include both credit and a broad range of socially responsible investment products. This role is about continuing with an AMs current advice-based solutions, while improving their knowledge to offer a wider diversity of solutions (both sides of the balance sheet).
  • The WRM will support branch goals by proactively bundling Vancity products and services, actively participating in campaigns and member offers, while working with a diverse network of internal specialists. Deep efforts to uncover opportunities and refer are imperative to the role’s success. The WRM will be able to complete a wide range of tasks -- including completion of credit applications, managing estates, identifying need for early-stage financial planning, servicing socially responsible investment products, while maintaining availability in-branch to support new and existing members. The successful candidate will be a strong communicator with the ability to effectively connect with all members without bias and provide coaching to peers.

  A typical day would involve:

  • Meet with branch team to celebrate results, educate, recognize, and coach.
  • Meet with and understanding each member’s complete cashflow to determine their unique immediate, secondary, needs.
  • Provide relevant, tailored advice that is documented in CRM and part of an advice and relationship continuum (a routinized business development lifecycle), not a one-off transaction. All interactions should be focused on results and should end with a “and next time we meet we will” vs a closed-ended good-bye.
  • Proactive connection with members to understand needs and provide relevant advice (this should be very focused on improving results across all lines of business, increasing the number of lines of business serving all members as well as number of services each member holds).
  • Engage with partners across the organization to present a full spectrum of advice, always pushing oneself to better present areas of the business and solutions you are less comfortable with.

  You are:

  • Inquisitive, curious, creative, driven to improve.
  • Have or are developing a passion for capital markets, investing and personal finance and broadening your understanding of all solutions.
  • Personable and outgoing, relatable, bringing your lived experience to your interactions, demonstrating you are a strong communicator (including internal communication through CRM).
  • Aware of your biases and always working to remove them from your interactions. Assumptions about values, future goals, and lifestyle, must be replaced with curiosity to discover.
  • Passionate about developing long-term, loyal relationship for the enterprise (not just with you).
  • Collaborative by nature in all aspects of your work and always helping others to be the same. Attentive not just to the needs you can serve, but also to the needs that will need to be fulfilled by your colleagues.
  • Analytical and a confident decision maker.

  You have:

  • University degree, on-the-ground business development experience (cold-calling included), lived-experience that may improve our ability to better serve under-served segments, relationship management experience.
  • Hold an active MFDA License (IFIC or CSC).
  • Two years in an Account Manager role, or equivalent, providing tailored financial advice to a broad range of members
  • Proven track record of proactive business development and member prospecting with equivalent sales results
  • Have a passion for understanding our members’ unique needs and providing tailored advice

  Bonus points, if you have:

  • An entrepreneurial background or hold, or are working towards, your Financial Planning designation (PFP or CFP).

  We value lived experience, so if you are interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if you feel your skills don't perfectly align with those listed.

  Pay Range: 67,795.00 to 91,946.40

  Posting Deadline: Please apply by 4:00 PM PST, November 02 2023

  We offer:

  • We are the largest private-sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada
  • Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs
  • New employees receive between three to four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows — to a maximum of six weeks per year — as their length of service increases. In addition, full-time, permanent staff may be able to purchase extra days of vacation through our flexible benefits package.
  • In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, Vancity provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness, plus opportunities to take unpaid leave for a variety of reasons.
  • Our health care & dental benefits offer three levels of health care and dental coverage for you to select from. These benefits will also be effective immediately based on your hire date.
  • We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at Vancity we will offer you a Defined pension plan that pays you a retirement income for life.

  At Vancity we’re committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace to help our people and communities thrive and prosper. Diversity in our workforce is integral so that we can truly represent, understand and respond to our community needs and deliver on our member experience. As part of this commitment we are taking action to learn more about our applicants and ask that you complete a short and anonymous Diversity Survey that will influence the design and execution of Vancity’s overall DEI initiatives and programs, one of which aims to advance our commitment to become a financial force for change and build a fair world. Please click this hyperlink to complete the Diversity Survey. Your responses are collected anonymously and will never be linked to your job application.

  Please note that all shortlisted candidates for this role will be required to complete a background check which includes employment verification, credit check, and a criminal record check. Vancity is an inclusive and equitable employer and actively seeks to advance racial equity, inclusion and belonging across the organization. Vancity offers required accommodations in all stages of the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please advise us, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

• About the company

  Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, commonly referred to as Vancity, is a member-owned financial co-operative headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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