Salesforce Account Executive - Financial Services

Are you a relationship-driven sales leader who knows how to turn Salesforce partnerships and financial-services expertise into meaningful growth? FormativGroup shapes high-impact solutions for leading wealth managers, asset managers, and banks while owning complex pursuits from first conversation through close. Role Summary The Salesforce Account Executive - Finanical Services is an accomplished individual contributor responsible for accelerating bookings, acquiring new clients, and expanding strategic accounts across Wealth Management, Asset Management, Banking, and related financial-services markets. The Senior Account Executive owns the full sales lifecycle, develops trusted executive and Salesforce ecosystem relationships, and orchestrates internal and partner teams to shape and close complex consulting engagements. This individual will combine consultative selling, strong relationships within Salesforce Financial Services, and a practical understanding of industry business models, priorities, and buying centers. Particular emphasis will be placed on Wealth and Asset Management, while maintaining the ability to pursue and grow opportunities across Banking and the broader Salesforce BWAM segment. The role is accountable for bookings performance, profitable revenue growth, account strategy, forecast accuracy, and a high-quality client experience throughout the sales process. Company Overview FormativGroup is a technology consulting and engineering firm that helps organizations modernize how they operate through enterprise platforms, data, integration, automation, and AI. We combine industry expertise, business-process understanding, and deep platform capabilities to design and deliver solutions that improve growth, efficiency, customer experience, and operational performance. Our Application Services business helps clients maximize value from strategic platforms including Salesforce, connecting applications and data while enabling AI-driven workflows and experiences. FormativGroup serves clients across regulated and complex industries, including financial services, and is backed by Rockbridge Growth Equity.

Responsibilities - Develop and execute targeted account and territory strategies spanning the full sales lifecycle, from opportunity creation through contract signature and account expansion. - Drive new-logo acquisition and expand existing accounts across wealth managers, asset managers, banks, credit unions, and other priority financial institutions. - Build trusted relationships with Salesforce Account Executives, Regional Vice Presidents, Industry Advisors, Solution Engineers, Partner Sales Managers, and other stakeholders aligned to Financial Services and the BWAM segment. - Lead pursuit strategy and orchestrate the appropriate Account Executive, Industry SME, Solution Engineering, Alliance, Delivery, and executive resources across active opportunities. - Develop account strategies around relevant Wealth and Asset Management priorities, including advisor and relationship-manager productivity, client growth and retention, onboarding, service transformation, data modernization, and AI-enabled operating models. - Identify and pursue relevant Banking opportunities, including customer growth, service transformation, lending, and data and AI modernization. - Secure large, multi-year consulting engagements with a target of $4-6 million in annual bookings while maintaining required profitability and commercial discipline. - Build and maintain a strong, qualified sales pipeline, typically sustaining 3-4x coverage against the annual bookings target. - Establish account strategies that align FormativGroup capabilities with funded client initiatives, business priorities, and measurable outcomes. - Cultivate and deepen relationships with C-suite and senior business and technology executives, positioning FormativGroup as a trusted advisor and strategic partner.