Portfolio Consultant

Job Description

Job Description

Why Work at Mercer Advisors?

For more than 40 years, Mercer Advisors has been helping families amplify and simplify their financial lives by integrating financial planning, investment management, business management, tax, estate, insurance, and more, all managed by a single team. We deliver the kind of comprehensive care once reserved for only the wealthiest households.

Today, we serve over 31,300 families across 90+ cities across the U.S. Ranked the #1 RIA Firm in the nation by Barron's for two consecutive years, Mercer Advisors is an independent fiduciary legally bound to act in our clients' best interests — always.*

Mercer Advisors offers a workplace that stands apart in the financial industry. More than half of our employees and client-facing professionals are women, reflecting the clients we serve. With a flexible, national footprint, we build our teams around exceptional talent — wherever they are.

Join us and help families amplify and simplify their financial lives with confidence.

* Mercer Advisors was ranked #1 for RIA firms with up to $70 billion in assets. The Barron's top RIA ranking is based on a combination of metrics – including size, growth, service quality, technology, succession planning and others. No fee was paid for participation in the ranking, however, Mercer Advisors has paid a fee to Barron's to use the ranking in marketing. Please see important information about the ranking criteria methodology here.

Job Summary:

The Portfolio Consultant III will drive investment management services for Wealth Advisors. The role serves as a main point of contact for Wealth Management for investment and portfolio management. Primary responsibilities include meeting with Advisors to consult on portfolio strategy, objectives, and ensuring accurate completion of investment implementations. This role is deeply involved in the investment process, serving as a point person for newly acquired firms assimilating to our investment platform and models. In addition, this role is pivotal in supporting the firm's organic growth by developing investment deliverables for prospective clients. Collaborating closely with Wealth Advisors, Operations, Portfolio Management, Compliance, and Trading departments, this role ensures strategic alignment and delivers exceptional service.

This role provides excellent opportunity for career acceleration and advancement to many areas within the company including Portfolio Management, Investment Operations, and Wealth Management.

Essential Job Functions will include:

Concierge Level Service & Communication

• • Communicate investment philosophy and available investment strategies clearly and effectively.
  • Provide status updates on portfolio implementations proactively and timely.
  • Deliver an excellent experience to our Wealth Advisor Teams in developing and implementing investment strategies
  • Must have the ability to work both independently as well as within a team on multiple time-sensitive projects with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Lead presentations on various investment topics to Wealth Advisor teams.

Knowledge of Investment Management

• Support new Portfolio Consultants with developing core competencies within investment platform.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of capital markets and portfolio design & management.
• Ability to effectively match Advisor implementation goals with available investment strategies.
• Expertise in complex investment vehicles, models, and platform, including public and private markets.
• Drafting, supporting, and auditing Envestnet proposals (and related software deliverables) for Wealth Management Teams.
• Understanding of account configuration options including cash reserves, rebalancing frequency, and do-not-buy / do-not-sell restrictions
• Comprehensive knowledge of short-term and long-term capital gains tax to help transition portfolios over desired time-horizons.

Manage Efficient Process & Workflows

• • Strong grasp on overall process & workflow to help troubleshoot portfolio inquiries.
  • Collaborate with key central teams to coordinate process improvement.
  • Responsible for managing standardized workflows and investment processes
  • Manage portfolio implementations concurrently to meet or exceed Service Level Agreements
  • Audit implementations to ensure outcome is consistent with target portfolio objectives
  • Lead the training of new hires, ensuring the team is well-prepared to deliver exceptional investment management services.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution preferred (preferably Business, Economics, Psychology, or Finance related)
• CFP® and/or Series 65 required
• CFA or advanced degree preferred
• Minimum 3 years of financial industry related experience
• Working knowledge of Envestnet, Orion and Morningstar preferred
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel preferred, including advanced data analytics
• Strong problem-solving experience and skills
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal and highly collaborative approach
• Organized and detail oriented
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks

Work Schedule: This professional role requires availability during standard business hours of Monday through Friday from 8AM to 5PM. At times, the role may have early or late hours to meet business tasks and deadlines for external and internal client needs.

Working Conditions: This position may be in a professional office environment or a dedicated home office workspace which is free of interruptions. Whether position is in a dedicated office space or home office workspace, basic technology needs will be provided to satisfy position requirements. Routinely sitting and standing for periods of time. No heavy lifting over 10 lbs. Travel assumed up to 10% of the time.

Application Deadline : The initial deadline for applications is 5/29/2026. Applications submitted after this date may still be considered on a rolling basis until the position/program is filled. We encourage all interested candidates to apply as early as possible. If a final decision has not been made by the initial deadline, subsequent applications will be reviewed as they are received.

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Actual base pay within this range will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the applicant's geographic location, relevant experience, education, skills and licenses/certifications. This position is also eligible to earn incentive compensation through one of Mercer Advisors' incentive compensation programs.

Base Pay Range

$73,000—$85,000 USD

Benefits:

Mercer Advisors offers a competitive and robust benefit package to our employees. Our benefit programs are focused on meeting all of our employees and their eligible dependents health and welfare needs. We offer the following:

• Company Paid Basic Life & AD&D Insurance
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Supplemental Life & AD Short-Term Disability; Accident; Critical Illness; and Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Three Cigna medical plans offerings including two High Deductible Health Plans and a Traditional Co-Pay medical plan.
• Kaiser Medical plans available in California
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contributions if enrolled in either HDHP medical plan.
• Two comprehensive Dental Plans
• Vision Insurance Plan
• Dependent Care Savings Account for child and dependent care.
• 14 Company Paid Holidays including a full week off at Thanksgiving.
• Generous paid time off program for vacation and sick days
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Family Medical Leave
• Paid Parental Leave (8 weeks)
• Maternity benefits utilizing company paid STD, any supplemental STD, plus Parental Leave (8 weeks) to provide time for recovery, baby bonding, and enjoying your family time.
• Adoption Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Company Paid Concierge Services for you and your loved ones for the spectrum of caring needs for your aging parents, young children, life's challenges and more.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with both Traditional and Roth plans with per pay period match as well as an after-tax option
• Pet Insurance
• Personalized financial planning and guidance from Mercer Advisors professionals, offered at preferred employee pricing

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