Financial Advisor

About This Role

This opportunity offers uncapped earning potential and significant ownership over how you work, allowing you to build a business where client relationships can provide long-term rewards. You will build your own client base while helping individuals, families, and business owners make smart financial decisions. The role suits individuals with strong relationship-building skills and a proactive approach.

Responsibilities

• Build your client base through prospecting, networking, introductions, and referrals
• Lead discovery conversations to understand clients’ goals, priorities, and financial concerns
• Present recommendations and earn business by helping clients understand their options and take action
• Develop long-term relationships and review plans as clients’ lives and needs change
• Grow your practice, with the opportunity to build a team over time

Requirements

• Initiative
• Relationship-building skills
• Willingness to put in the work
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

Nice to have:

• Experience in sales, recruiting, fundraising, real estate, or other roles where earning trust and motivating people to act drives results
• Discipline, resilience, and a competitive mindset (for athletes, former student-athletes, military veterans, and other driven people)
• Enjoy meeting people and feel comfortable initiating conversations
• Listen well, build trust, and follow through
• Respond to rejection with persistence and a willingness to improve
• Want ownership of their results and the responsibility that comes with autonomy
• Are coachable, self-directed, and committed to learning
• Care about helping clients make decisions that fit their goals

Benefits

• Award-winning training and ongoing professional development
• Mentorship from experienced financial professionals and local leaders
• Support for insurance licensing, SIE, Series 6, Series 63, CFP®, and more
• Financial planning software, reporting tools, and resources across insurance, investments, retirement, education funding, and business planning
• A commission structure designed to support early development
• Renewable income opportunities, bonus programs, and expense allowances
• Retirement package and pension plan
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability income insurance
• Family planning benefits

About the Company

Northwestern Mutual is a FORTUNE 500 company, recognized among FORTUNE World’s Most Admired Companies, with wealth management teams acknowledged in FORTUNE’s Best-in-State rankings. It has also received the APEX Award for Excellence in Training & Development.