Senior Wealth Planning Specialist

We're Hiring: Senior Wealth Planning Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused wealth-management organization committed to helping individuals, families, entrepreneurs, executives, and institutions make informed decisions about wealth accumulation, preservation, investment, retirement, and intergenerational planning.

Our Wealth Management, Investment, Banking, Tax, Legal, Risk, Operations, and Relationship Management teams collaborate to deliver personalized financial strategies, disciplined investment solutions, and long-term wealth-planning support across diverse markets.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Wealth Planning Specialist to lead comprehensive wealth-planning analysis, financial strategy development, investment planning, retirement planning, estate and succession considerations, risk management, and long-term client advisory support.

The ideal candidate will combine strong financial-planning expertise with investment knowledge, analytical capability, and excellent relationship-management skills. The role will work closely with clients, relationship managers, investment specialists, tax and legal professionals, and other advisors to develop coordinated wealth strategies aligned with client objectives, circumstances, risk tolerance, liquidity requirements, and long-term goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive wealth-planning strategies for high-net-worth and affluent individuals, families, executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners.
• Conduct detailed client discovery and financial-planning assessments.
• Understand client objectives, financial circumstances, family structures, business interests, liquidity needs, and long-term priorities.
• Assess client assets, liabilities, income, expenses, investments, insurance coverage, and other financial resources.
• Develop detailed personal financial statements and wealth-position analyses.
• Analyze current financial structures and identify opportunities, risks, gaps, and areas for improvement.
• Develop integrated wealth plans covering investment, retirement, liquidity, risk management, estate, succession, and philanthropic objectives where appropriate.
• Translate client objectives into measurable financial-planning goals and implementation priorities.
• Develop long-term financial projections using approved planning methodologies and assumptions.
• Prepare cash-flow forecasts, wealth accumulation models, retirement projections, and financial scenarios.
• Conduct sensitivity and scenario analyses to assess the potential impact of market conditions, income changes, expenses, inflation, longevity, and other variables.
• Assess client investment portfolios in the context of broader wealth-planning objectives.
• Analyze asset allocation, diversification, concentration, liquidity, investment risk, and expected portfolio behavior.
• Coordinate with investment specialists and portfolio managers on appropriate investment strategies.
• Evaluate the alignment between client risk tolerance, investment objectives, time horizon, and portfolio structure.
• Identify concentration risks in equities, businesses, real estate, or other significant assets.
• Develop liquidity strategies for short-, medium-, and long-term financial requirements.
• Assess funding requirements for education, property purchases, business ventures, retirement, healthcare, and other major financial objectives.
• Develop retirement-income strategies based on client assets, income sources, spending requirements, and expected longevity.
• Model retirement scenarios and assess potential income sustainability under different assumptions.
• Evaluate pension, annuity, investment, and other retirement-income sources where applicable.
• Support clients with succession and intergenerational wealth-planning considerations.
• Coordinate with qualified legal and tax professionals regarding estate structures, trusts, succession arrangements, and applicable tax considerations.
• Ensure estate and tax matters are appropriately referred to licensed or qualified specialists where required.
• Analyze business-owner wealth considerations, including business interests, liquidity events, succession, and personal wealth diversification.
• Support planning around business sales, ownership transitions, liquidity events, and major capital transactions.
• Coordinate with legal, tax, corporate-finance, and investment professionals on complex client situations.
• Evaluate insurance and risk-management requirements as part of comprehensive wealth planning.
• Review life, health, disability, property, liability, and other relevant protection arrangements.
• Identify potential gaps between client financial risks and existing protection structures.
• Coordinate with approved insurance and risk specialists where additional analysis or solutions are required.
• Support philanthropic and charitable-planning objectives where applicable.
• Develop wealth-transfer and gifting strategies in coordination with appropriate legal and tax professionals.
• Review existing estate, succession, and beneficiary arrangements and identify areas requiring specialist review.
• Prepare comprehensive wealth-planning reports, recommendations, financial models, and client presentations.
• Explain financial-planning concepts, assumptions, risks, and potential outcomes clearly to clients.
• Present alternative planning scenarios and explain their financial implications objectively.
• Ensure recommendations are consistent with documented client objectives, risk profiles, financial circumstances, and applicable advisory requirements.
• Maintain detailed records of client objectives, financial information, recommendations, assumptions, decisions, and implementation actions.
• Coordinate with Relationship Managers to ensure wealth plans are integrated into broader client relationships.
• Support client review meetings and periodic wealth-plan updates.
• Monitor changes in client circumstances, family structures, income, assets, liabilities, business interests, and financial objectives.
• Update wealth plans following significant life events, market developments, liquidity events, or changes in client priorities.
• Monitor implementation of agreed wealth-planning actions and follow up on outstanding requirements.
• Coordinate with investment, banking, lending, insurance, tax, legal, and estate-planning specialists to support implementation.
• Maintain a centralized view of client wealth structures and planning priorities where appropriate.
• Monitor portfolio and financial-plan performance against agreed objectives and assumptions.
• Conduct periodic plan reviews and identify deviations from expected financial outcomes.
• Analyze the impact of market performance, inflation, interest rates, currency movements, and other economic factors on client plans.
• Conduct stress testing and scenario analysis for significant client wealth exposures.
• Support family governance, financial education, and next-generation wealth-planning initiatives where applicable.

Key Performance Indicators

• Wealth plans completed
• Wealth-plan review completion
• Client financial-data accuracy
• Financial-plan accuracy
• Cash-flow projection accuracy
• Retirement projection accuracy
• Scenario-analysis completion
• Client objective documentation accuracy
• Client risk-profile alignment
• Investment-plan alignment
• Asset-allocation analysis quality
• Liquidity-planning effectiveness
• Retirement-income planning quality
• Risk-management assessment completion
• Insurance-gap identification
• Estate and succession planning coordination
• Business-owner planning support
• Wealth-transfer planning support
• Client plan implementation rate
• Outstanding action resolution time
• Client review completion rate
• Client satisfaction
• Client retention
• Client relationship engagement
• Referral and relationship-development contribution
• Planning recommendation turnaround time
• Client meeting preparation quality
• Client reporting accuracy
• Portfolio-plan monitoring accuracy
• Financial-plan variance analysis
• Scenario and stress-testing quality
• Data and documentation compliance
• Advisory suitability compliance
• Regulatory compliance
• Privacy and confidentiality compliance
• Audit issue resolution
• Specialist referral effectiveness
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Planning-system data accuracy
• Process-improvement delivery
• Wealth-planning technology adoption
• Training and professional-development completion
• Stakeholder satisfaction

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in wealth planning, financial planning, private banking, wealth management, investment advisory, family-office services, retirement planning, or private-client financial services, preferably supporting affluent and high-net-worth individuals, families, executives, entrepreneurs, or business owners.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of comprehensive financial and wealth-planning principles.
• Proven experience developing and presenting personalized wealth plans.
• Strong knowledge of investment planning, asset allocation, portfolio analysis, and diversification.
• Experience developing financial projections, cash-flow models, retirement models, and scenario analyses.
• Strong understanding of retirement planning and long-term wealth accumulation.
• Knowledge of estate, succession, wealth-transfer, and intergenerational planning concepts.
• Understanding of tax-planning considerations and ability to coordinate effectively with qualified tax professionals.
• Understanding of legal and estate-planning considerations and ability to coordinate with qualified legal advisors.
• Experience supporting entrepreneurs, business owners, executives, families, or high-net-worth clients.
• Strong understanding of liquidity, concentration, leverage, and wealth-preservation risks.