The Associate Retirement Plan Solutions Specialist plays a key role in approving new business and existing business for the Retirement Plan Solutions team. This position supports the approval and maintenance of group retirement plan accounts and requires effective communication with advisors, recordkeepers, and internal stakeholders. The ideal candidate is adaptable, eager to learn, and a self-starter. Success in this role requires the ability to collaborate effectively and maintain attention to detail in a dynamic environment. The analyst will support these efforts by adhering to established processes, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
What You'll Do:
- Play an entry level role in ensuring Cetera Financial Group’s ERISA/retirement plans fiduciary programs continue to conform to set guidelines.
- Comply with processes and procedures of the team, including regulatory requirements.
- Provide day-to-day operational support of CFG fiduciary programs, ensuring accuracy, key metrics, and SLA’s achieved.
- Responsible for daily process of work associated with CFG’s retirement plan fiduciary programs, including new account set-up and maintenance.
- Facilitates agreement review and ensure alignment with outside recordkeeper data.
- Respond to inquiries from internal and external customers via email in a timely fashion.
- Strong communication skills with advisors, recordkeepers, and internal teams.
- Ability to communicate clearly in written format, including the ability to document decisions made effectively by program management, with supporting rationale.
- Provide feedback and contribute to improving the overall fiduciary program experience.
- Ability to distinguish multiple firm-specific versions of agreements and forms, recognize similarities and differences across firms; and to apply knowledge of each, as appropriate.
- Conduct detailed reviews of scanned forms and applications to verify completeness and compliance.
- Cross-reference with product sponsor/recordkeeper data to ensure alignment with regulatory standards.
- Perform accurate data entry and maintain integrity of internal databases.
Collaborate with various teams to clarify and resolve discrepancies.
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What You Need to Have:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 1-3 years of financial services workflow/operations experience
- Strong data entry experience
- Results driven and detail-oriented individual
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- Microsoft Excel experience
- Skilled in compensation analysis, including matching data between third-party vendor (recordkeeper) reports and internal systems to ensure accuracy.
Able to identify and resolve inconsistencies in compensation records, supporting audit readiness and financial integrity.
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What's Nice to Have:
- Experience with employer sponsored retirement plans.
- Experience working with recordkeepers or broker-dealers
Salesforce experience is a plus
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Compensation:
The base salary range for this role in Dallas, TX is $70,000- $80,000, 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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