Providend is Hiring New Associate Advisers (2022)

Update October 2022: If you are still reading this, we are still looking for quality individuals to join us as associate advisers.

The client advisory team at fee-only wealth advisory firm Providend is divided into two levels:

1. The client advisers listen to prospects’ needs and work out financial plans and recommendations for them. The client adviser serves the existing clients that they manage on a day-to-day basis.
2. The associate advisers are groomed to be client advisers eventually. Over 2 to 3 years, the associates will learn the nuts and bolts of wealth advisory by supporting the client advisers team.

This will be a full-time position.

You will learn from the ground up:

1. How to organize prospects’ and client’s financial details in our financial planning process
2. Sort through and make sense of the existing insurance policies that prospects bring in
3. Build up or strengthen your investment fundamentals, and learn our investment philosophy
4. Build up or strengthen the technical aspects of comprehensive financial planning
5. Learn the way to listen, coach, engage and present to prospects and clients

Most importantly, you will soak into Providend’s unique DNA of doing what is suitable for the clients by becoming their trusted and most competent adviser.

We look for people with the following attributes to join us:

1. Driven and motivated to do the right things in life
2. Have a keen interest in the personal wealth advisory
3. Have good interpersonal and communication skills
4. Love a dynamic work environment where you can grow and develop
5. Bonus: Skill to persuade and convince people (after all, eventually, this will be a sales role)
6. Bonus: A real hunger to decipher what works and doesn’t work in the investment & wealth management world.

You will eventually be working with high-net-worth clients who wish to steward their family wealth soundly with your help.

The Associate Advisers That Joined Us on the Programme

Over the last 3.5 years, we have had individuals from all walks of life join us. Some of them are still with us, helping our client advisers daily, and we hope that eventually, all of them will be full-fledged advisers, serving and helping clients reach their financial goals.

You don’t need a CFP, CFA, or AWP to join us. A degree is not an essential criterion either. We are looking for gritty, conscientious individuals with a solid moral compass and affinity towards wealth and money.

Your attitude towards life should lean closer to being of service to others.

A large part of the associate advisers’ daily work involves processing the meeting notes after listening to the client’s wishes, sorting out & computing the first cut of the client’s financials, and preparing the financial reports for the client’s annual review.

To do this work well, grit and conscientiousness are needed to ensure things are done correctly.

Here are some of the people that are currently in the program:

1. A seasoned financial adviser who used to work in a tied-agency and independent financial advisory firm decided to join us to learn how to work with and serve the higher net worth
2. A civil servant working in a public agency who could have a very decent career in civil service but decided to listen to his heart to search for a more fulfilling career where he can make a significant impact on people’s lives
3. A general manager in his own family business who decided to strike it out on his own by going into a domain where he can marry his natural affinity towards finance with his years of experience working with people
4. A bank relationship manager who felt trapped because she could not recommend products that truly benefit her clients and allow her to feel good about being of service to people
5. A truth-seeking, people person with research and evidence-based investment philosophy, who used to work as a bank analyst and as a bank relationship manager who is keener to evangelise the right life plan for his clients than just hitting KPI targets for who he works for.
6. A curious, practical communications lecturer who wishes to make a more significant financial impact on her family and client’s life.

Some of you may be in another profession but felt the lure of being a client adviser. Or you may have hopped a few times in your industry but are struggling to identify yourself.

One of our associate advisers, Annette, wrote about a couple of her struggles with where she was at and the framework that helped her take a step back, re-evaluate her life and seek out an ideal career or domain for her to venture into.

You can read I Hate My Job but Don’t Know What to Do Next >>

Bryan, who is one of our earliest associate advisers (and my lunch buddy), elaborated a little about his life and the work that he did at Providend in this vid:

At the tail end of 2021, he graduated from the programme to become a full-fledged client adviser.

If you want to join us, you are welcome to submit your resume and cover letter to [email protected]. More details about the roles can be found here.

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