About Us

Bartholomew & Company is a financial services firm headquartered in Worcester, MA managing approximately $6 billion in assets across two divisions: Governments and Institutions, which serves public entities and institutional clients, and Private Wealth, which serves individuals, families, and business owners. 

This role can be based in our Worcester, MA or Framingham, MA office within our Private Wealth division, which manages approximately $2.5 billion for clients across the country. We take a disciplined, client-centered approach to wealth management, tailoring strategies to each client's goals and risk tolerance. Our deep expertise in institutional asset management provides clients with access to opportunities, sophistication, and diversification not typically available to individual investors.

About the Role

This full-time, salaried position is a client-focused advisory support role designed for professionals who want to build and apply their knowledge of financial planning, investments, and wealth management while contributing meaningfully to client experience and outcomes. Working closely with Wealth Advisor(s) and other members of the advisory team, the Associate Advisor supports client relationships, meeting preparation and follow-up, financial planning activities, investment-related needs, and business development initiatives. Over time, the role provides opportunities to deepen technical expertise, expand client-facing responsibilities, and develop greater ownership of client relationships. The Associate Advisor role is designed to support multiple career paths within Bartholomew & Company. For individuals who aspire to become a Wealth Advisor, the position provides the experience, mentorship, licensure, professional development, and client exposure necessary to progress toward an independent Wealth Advisor role. For individuals who prefer to build a long-term career as a highly skilled, planning-focused member of an advisory team, the Associate Advisor may also serve as a rewarding career role focused on client service, planning support, relationship management, and advisor partnership. Success in the role is defined by the Associate Advisor's contribution to clients, the advisory team, and the firm — not solely by progression to a Wealth Advisor position.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

Learning & Professional Development

• Pursue and obtain FINRA licensure (SIE, Series 7, Series 66) within the timeframe specified.
• Actively participate in firm training, advisor mentorship programs, and professional development activities.
• Study toward professional designations as directed by management.
• Shadow Wealth Advisor(s) in client meetings and progressively assume responsibility for defined portions of meetings as readiness is demonstrated.

Client Service & Relationship Support

• Assist licensed Wealth Advisor(s) with client meeting preparation, presentation materials, meeting agendas, and follow-up activities.
• Gather and organize client financial data in support of financial planning development and ongoing client reviews.
• Respond to routine client inquiries under the supervision and direction of a licensed wealth advisor.
• Maintain accurate client records and document client interactions, decisions, and follow-up items in the CRM system (WealthBox).
• Develop familiarity with client relationships and service standards in order to assume increasing client-facing responsibility over time, including proactive client outreach.

Financial Planning & Advisory Support

• Support the preparation of financial planning analyses and recommendations using firm-approved planning tools and processes (Right Capital, Holistiplan, others as appropriate).
• Build working knowledge of the firm's investment philosophy, planning approach, client segmentation, and service model.
• Develop the ability to explain core financial planning and investment concepts clearly and accurately to clients and internal team members.
• Coordinate with advisors, teammates, and other internal resources to ensure planning and investment-related follow-up is completed accurately and on time.

Business Development & Team Growth

• Develop the relationship-building and discovery skills necessary to contribute meaningfully to new client acquisition and asset growth.
  • Participate in firm-sponsored community, client, and business-development events, as appropriate.
  • Begin building and maintaining a professional network and pipeline of prospective clients under the guidance of wealth advisors.
  • Support Advisors in prospecting activities, including materials preparation, opportunity tracking, and follow-up coordination.

Core Skills, Competencies & Characteristics

• Clients First. Always: Approaches every client-related task with care, professionalism, responsiveness, and a commitment to delivering an exceptional experience.
• Own Your Role: Takes a proactive approach to problem solving and contributing to team and client success, demonstrates sound judgment, follows through on commitments, upholds high ethical standards and a fiduciary mindset in all work and client interactions, and appropriately escalates matters outside the scope of the role.
• Pursue Excellence: Holds work to a high standard rather than the minimum required, demonstrating exceptional attention to detail across client data, financial planning documentation, and compliance records, as errors can directly impact client outcomes and firm compliance, while continually looking for ways to improve accuracy, clarity, and quality.
• Stay Humble. Be Curious: Demonstrates genuine enthusiasm for financial markets, planning concepts, and the wealth management profession through inquisitiveness, and is receptive to feedback and actively applies mentorship to develop technical expertise and understanding of the advisory process.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any field of study.
• 0-5 years of financial services and/or advisory experience; internship or academic experience in financial services preferred.
• FINRA SIE, Series 7, and Series 66 must be obtained within the timeframe specified in the employment offer; Bartholomew & Company will sponsor required licensure and study materials.
• Demonstrated academic achievement and a strong interest in financial planning, investment management, and wealth management.
• Strong written and verbal communication, organization, attention to detail, and follow-through.

Technology Skills

• Microsoft Office 365, with proficiency in Word, Excel, Copilot, and PowerPoint.
• CRM platforms (e.g., Wealthbox, ClientWorks); training provided.
• Financial planning software (e.g., RightCapital, Holistiplan, or equivalent); training provided.
• Video conferencing platforms, including Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
• Proficiency in AI platforms and ability to use them in accordance with firm policies and procedures.

Optional Career Progression: Advancement to Wealth Advisor

For Associate Advisors who choose to pursue the Wealth Advisor career path, advancement is based on demonstrated readiness for greater client, advisory, and business-development responsibility rather than tenure alone. Meeting the criteria below establishes eligibility for consideration but does not guarantee promotion. Final advancement decisions remain subject to management approval, business needs, and the employee's overall performance and conduct.

Licensing & Registration: SIE, Series 7, and Series 66 are completed within the required timeframe; all applicable registrations are maintained in good standing.

Professional Development: Required firm training is completed and the Associate Advisor demonstrates meaningful progress toward firm-approved professional designation, as directed by management.

Technical Planning & Investment Proficiency: Can accurately gather and analyze client information, prepare financial plans, use firm systems effectively, and explain foundational planning and investment concepts with limited supervision.

Client-Facing Readiness: Can lead defined portions of client meetings and, when assigned, routine review meetings; communicates clearly and professionally, completes follow-up reliably, and demonstrates appropriate judgments with clients.

Relationship Ownership: Demonstrates the ability to manage assigned client responsibilities or a defined segment of relationships with increasing independence, identify client needs, coordinate internal resources, and escalate complex matters appropriately.

Business Development: Maintains an active professional network and prospect pipeline and demonstrates the ability to contribute to new client acquisition and asset growth. Any specific AUM, revenue, or production threshold for advancement will be established by management.

Execution, Compliance & Risk Management: Consistently maintains accurate CRM documentation, follows firm procedures, meets deadlines, protects client information, and demonstrates sound compliance and risk-management practices.

Performance & Core Competencies: Consistently meets or exceeds performance expectations and demonstrates the firm's core competencies, including initiative, client focus, coachability, ownership, integrity, and sound judgment.

Management Readiness Review: The supervising advisor(s) and management determine that the Associate is prepared to assume Wealth Advisor-level client responsibility, accountability, and growth expectations.

Physical Requirements

Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for long periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including the use of a computer, keyboard, copy machine, printer, and calculator; and ability to communicate information and ideas in a manner that others will understand.

EEO Statement

Bartholomew & Company is an Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religious creed, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, and/or other status protected under law.