Portfolio and Trading Specialist

Overview

The organization is hiring its first Portfolio and Trading Specialist to own tax-aware implementation of investment strategies for households with significant taxable assets, concentrated and legacy positions, embedded gains, trusts, executive compensation, and customized Investment Policy Statement requirements.

This is a permanently remote role. Implementation strategies are determined by the Investment Committee and an outsourced Chief Investment Officer; this position is responsible for implementation from start to finish. Approximately 50 households are expected to qualify.

Responsibilities

• Execute household investment implementation at the individual tax lot level, working alongside experienced advisors who manage the client relationship.
• Build and carry out written, multi-year implementation strategies from transition through ongoing management, including:
  • Concentrated and low-basis positions implementation aligned to each client’s capital gains budget
  • Tax-loss harvesting with household-wide wash sale tracking
  • Tax-aware rebalancing within defined bands
  • Asset location across taxable, tax-deferred, and Roth accounts
  • Multi-year tax-budgeted allocation transitions
• Prepare tax-aware transition plans before assets move for scenarios such as:
  • Business sale
  • Inheritance
  • Retirement income
  • Large withdrawals
• Perform firmwide trading support as implementation stabilizes, including:
  • Trade ticket review and reconciliation across firm accounts on a defined cadence confirmed through capacity validation
  • Error documentation and escalation
  • Provider coordination
  • Ensuring one accountable owner for trade details that protect every client
• Partner with advisors by providing implementation strategy documents and plain-language education for qualifying households, including proactive briefings when milestones, risks, or opportunities require attention.
• Maintain the operating documentation required to ensure continuity (procedures, household logs, and implementation records), documented to a standard that enables a successor to assume the role.
• Support a defined approach under pressure, including daily reconciliation that carries a deadline while household tax work does not, following the role specification on:
  • What yields first when volume spikes
  • Who covers priority needs

Requirements

• 7 to 10 years of experience in portfolio implementation, trading, or investment operations at a registered investment advisor, wealth manager, trust company, or asset manager.
• Hands-on experience with rebalancing and trading platforms (Orion Eclipse, Tamarac, iRebal, or similar) and major custodial platforms; Schwab and Fidelity strongly preferred.
• Working fluency in:
  • Tax lot accounting
  • Wash sale rules
  • Capital gains management
  • Tax-aware trading mechanics
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a related field.
• Demonstrated documented-process mindset emphasizing accuracy, fairness, and efficiency over speed, with discipline to escalate rather than improvise.
• Series 65 or investment adviser representative registration.
• Employment is subject to the firm’s Code of Ethics, personal trading pre-clearance, outside business activity disclosure, and a background check.

Preferred Qualifications

• CFA, CIMA, or CFP (not required but encouraged).
• Experience hedging concentrated positions with covered calls, protective puts, or collars (valued as support for later-phase capability rather than first-year duty).

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $90K–120K
• Quarterly bonus plan tied to implementation quality, including:
  • Plans completed and kept on schedule
  • Error and exception rates
  • Documentation completeness
  • Plus firm performance
• Health care: firm pays 75 percent of the employee’s health care cost
• 401(k) with company match
• 20 days of paid time off plus additional firm holidays
• Cross-trained backup coverage to support real time away and meet a two-week continuity standard
• Permanently remote position

Location

• Permanently remote

Hiring Timeline & Reporting

• Ideal Start Date: January 2027
• Reports to the Financial Planning Manager, with investment oversight from the Investment Committee.
• Trade authority, approval thresholds, and escalation are defined in the role specification.

Application Process

Qualified candidates will begin with a 15- to 30-minute Zoom interview conducted by the consultant (the hiring manager for this position). If there is ground to move forward, candidates will be asked to complete a Career History Form. Final-stage candidates may meet with the firm and be asked to take assessments.

Equal Opportunity

The employer is an equal opportunity employer.