Senior Analyst, Supervision

at  LPL Financial

Are you a team player? Are you curious to learn? Are you interested in working in meaningful projects? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things differently? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you!
Excited to learn more? If so, then this could be the role for you!
LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for the advisor, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader* in the markets we serve, supporting more than 18,000 financial advisors, 800 institution-based investment programs and 450 independent RIA firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-centered model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial advisor. At LPL, independence means that advisors have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run their perfect practice. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.

JOB OVERVIEW:

LPL Financial is seeking a Senior Analyst in our Supervision team to help support M&A deals, Large Recruiting Events and Business Acclimation for our advisor population. This role will be working across a broad spectrum of stakeholders including business leaders and their peers across the firm. Additionally, the role will have discrete responsibilities, but also be tasked with tackling ad-hoc topics as they arise. The ideal candidate will be able to effectively frame questions, challenges, and opportunities, both qualitatively and quantitatively, for discussion and consumption by business leaders.
In addition to supporting specific deliverables, views, and viewpoints, the candidate must contextualize complex and complicated problems drawing from disciplines such as strategy development, business analysis, process management, operations, and systems analysis.
This is an individual contributor role responsible for developing a framework to ensure advisors joining LPL go through a successful integration from the Supervision perspective. The successful candidate must possess strategic foresight and be skilled and experienced in engaging in high-level strategic discussions with business leaders. Additionally, the candidate must also understand, utilize, and stay current with industry best practices, financial markets, the regulatory environment, and the competitive landscape to optimize results.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 3+ years’ experience in strategic consulting and/or strategic program management.
• Direct experience in dealing with interested parties to gather feedback and share ideas.
• Advanced user of MS Office, Word, Excel, Power Point.
• Experienced with creation of Smartsheet and/or Tableau Reporting Dashboards.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, organization as well as strong quantitative and analytical skills.

• For key business initiatives, be able to frame scope, goals, and deliverables that support business needs in collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Competent in strategic consulting and change management practices with the ability to represent complex issues appropriately.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation ability, especially to executive management, with the ability to convey complex issues in understandable forms to various audiences.
• Create documents, frameworks, and analysis (quantitative and qualitative) to help solution critical business issues.
• Assist in proactively communicating initiative details across all levels of the organization and across multiple departments in a clear and concise manner.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and make recommendations for change within the current ecosystem.
• Synthesize data and insights into executive presentations to facilitate business decision making.
• Collaborate with leaders, subject matter experts and users to communicate the proposed solution vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and manage multiple projects.
• Detail oriented and organized with the ability to be comfortable in ambiguous and challenging situations.
• Builds strong partnerships across all teams. Creates / updates Management Committee and Board of Directors deliverables for leadership using Smartsheet, PowerPoint and Tableau.