Sr Analyst - Investment Products

Investment Products Senior Analyst

Where ambition meets innovation

Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you'll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Job Overview:

The Investment Products team within LPL's Investment Management Solutions (IMS) group is responsible for delivering a highly competitive set of investment solutions across LPL's brokerage and advisory platforms. This includes the platform and product offering, advisor/client access to solutions, and promotional activities. The team's goal from an investment product management perspective is to enhance our advisors' and their clients' experience and ability to grow and to enhance our firm's economic and risk profiles.

This role will be focused on all facets of structured investments within LPL. The candidate should have a good understanding of structured notes including the features, trading protocols and client suitability. On any given day, the role may include: conducting sales & recruiting presentations, purchasing bonds from issuers, negotiating deal terms with issuers, answering product or platform questions, providing pricing indications, monitoring industry trends, tracking competitors platforms offerings and managing relationships with both issuers and advisors.

The role will also share responsibility for driving operational excellence by managing end-to-end project workflows, analyzing performance metrics, and implementing solutions to meet advisor demand, their clients' needs, and firm-wide goals. The Senior Analyst will translate complex data into actionable insights, optimize processes, and lead cross-functional teams such as legal, compliance, trading, sales/business development teams and other home office teams to collectively create great client outcomes, ensure timely delivery and strategic alignment.

Responsibilities:

• Process Improvement: Identify gaps and optimize processes through Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and automation.

Sales & Recruiting:

• Conducting sales calls with groups of advisors for both introductory & in-depth product discussions
• Having in-depth individual calls with advisors to assist with sales of products and ensuring correct with target client base.

Stakeholder Management:

• Act as a key liaison between Technology, Investment Product, and other home office teams to resolve issues and report on status.

Operational Execution:

• Support daily operations by actively managing inquiries and advisor requests, ensuring timely resolution to maintain high advisor satisfaction.
• Ensure technology, processes and support systems used by advisors continue to be efficient, reliable and user-friendly.
• Proactively monitor order flows, trade activity, and platform usage to identify and resolve gaps and friction points
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) and first point of contact for operational issues, driving them to resolution.

Reporting & Communication:

• Prepare regular reports and PowerPoint presentations for management regarding operational performance, system degradation, or project status.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 4 years of related experience in the financial services industry.
• Series 7 & 63 (or comparable)

Core Competencies:

• Problem-solving, data storytelling, and ability to influence cross-functional teams.
• Presentation, quantitative and analytical skills
• Ability to lead projects in a matrix managed fashion leveraging strong interpersonal and written communication skills

Preferences:

• Proficiency in SQL, Excel, Python, and BI visualization tools (Tableau/Power BI).

Pay Range:

$81,473.00 - $135,857.00 Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

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Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant's bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL's Human Resources Solutions Center at View phone number on click.appcast.io.