Position Summary
The Fiduciary Advisor (FA) is responsible for the administration of fiduciary accounts where Busey is acting as trustee, executor, administrator, conservator, guardian, or agent for Busey Wealth Management clients. The Fiduciary Advisor manages fiduciary relationships, ensuring client objectives are met and are consistent with the governing documents and fiduciary administration principles. The Fiduciary Advisor will engage in proactive and ongoing communication with clients to build and maintain relationships and to develop a deep understanding of each clients’ unique goals and objectives. The reporting structure may vary for the Fiduciary role based on Regional needs; an FA I can report to a Market or Regional President and in some instances, a Managing Director, Director or to a FA II.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Act as the primary relationship manager for a book of clients.
- Frequently meet with clients; formulate the appropriate actions necessary to help the client and enhance their relationship with Busey.
- Complete mandatory account reviews for the assigned accounts.
- Participate in Fiduciary Committees as needed.
- Attend discovery/needs-based training.
- Serve as resource for the team and act as a project leader from time to time.
- Administer accounts in a manner that ensures operational compliance with relevant governing instruments, legal requirements, and business line policies and procedures yet ensures a high level of client service.
- Provide high level customer service to clients, beneficiaries, advisors, and other related parties to assigned accounts.
- Coordinate and arrange for the presentation and review of discretionary distributions, other discretionary matters, and acceptance of new fiduciary business.
- Escalate issues to the Director of Fiduciary Services and Compliance/Fiduciary Officer as appropriate.
Education & Experience
Knowledge of:
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong sales and client service skills
- Knowledge of standard business systems, including but not limited to, Trust Accounting systems, Microsoft Office Suite
- Wealth Management Services including trust administration, estate settlement, Investments, financial planning, and banking concepts including asset allocation
- A fiduciary approach to managing client relationships
Ability to:
- Experience administering fiduciary accounts
- Develop and manage client relationships at an advanced level
- Make recommendations consistent with the client’s Investment Policy Statement
- Make independent decisions
- Respond timely to client needs and requests
- Partner with other associates on the team in a collaborative and client-focused manner
- Understand and think strategically about each client’s financial planning
- Analyze and interpret numerical data
- Analyze and solve problems that frequently involve decisions based on a wide knowledge of many factors where application of advanced technical concepts is predominantly required
- Analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations
- Perform duties under frequent time pressures
- The Fiduciary Advisor II role is for those Advisors managing larger more complex books of business that bring in substantial revenue.
Education and Training:
- Requires a bachelors’ degree or commensurate experience with fiduciary administration; previous trust experience preferred.
- On-going development and broadening of appropriate knowledge and skills; additional education will need to be successfully completed; must be in good standing with First Busey Corporation continuing education.
- Minimum of 10 hours of annual continuing education in courses related to the position’s responsibilities
- Approved webinars, seminars, and courses will be credited at the CE amount stated.
Compensation and Benefits
Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance.
(Base Pay Range: $85,000 - $117,000 /year)
Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being—now and in the years to come—are important to us. Busey’s Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit Busey Total Rewards for more information.
Equal Opportunity
Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey’s commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey’s Equal Opportunity Employment.
Unsolicited Resumes
Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails.
What We Do
As of September 30, 2023, First Busey Corporation (Nasdaq: BUSE) was a $12.26 billion financial holding company headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.
Busey Bank, a wholly-owned bank subsidiary of First Busey Corporation, had total assets of $12.23 billion as of September 30, 2023, and is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. Busey Bank currently has 46 banking centers serving Illinois, eight banking centers serving Missouri, three banking centers serving southwest Florida, and one banking center in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Through Busey’s Wealth Management division, the Company provides asset management, investment, and fiduciary services to individuals, businesses, and foundations. Assets under care totaled $11.55 billion as of September 30, 2023.
Busey Bank’s wholly-owned subsidiary, FirsTech, specializes in the evolving financial technology needs of small and medium-sized businesses, highly regulated enterprise industries, and financial institutions. FirsTech provides comprehensive and innovative payment technology solutions including online, mobile, and voice-recognition bill payments; money and data movement; merchant services; direct debit services; lockbox remittance processing for payments made by mail; and walk-in payments at retail agents. More information about FirsTech can be found at firstechpayments.com.
Busey Bank is honored to be named among America’s Best Banks by Forbes magazine for the second consecutive year. Ranked 26th overall in 2023, compared to 52nd in last year's rankings. Busey was named among DiversityInc’s Top Regional Companies. The DiversityInc Top 50 survey is the external validator for large U.S. employers that model fairness in their talent strategy, workplace and supplier diversity practices, and philanthropic engagement. We are honored to be consistently recognized nationally and locally for our engaged culture of integrity and commitment to community development.
For more information about us, visit busey.com.
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