Planning Consultant - Littleton, MA
Littleton, MAJob$66–125K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed 2 days ago
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The Planning Consultant works alongside Financial Consultants and Wealth Planners to provide financial planning interactions and support client relationships. The role involves understanding clients’ planning needs, presenting guidance tools, and identifying opportunities for further planning. The consultant also uses technology to support client engagement and collaborates with business partners to help clients meet their financial goals.
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Full job description
Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Job Description: Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Through your integrity and adherence to Fidelity’s client commitment standards, we know you will inspire client dedication with a goal of developing lifetime relationships with Fidelity.
As a Planning Consultant, you will provide a world-class planning experience, uncover opportunities to deepen client relationships through consolidation of assets, referrals, and plan implementations, and develop an engagement strategy that supports each client’s unique planning needs.
The Expertise We’re Looking For
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FINRA Series 7 & 66 licensed and hold appropriate state registrations, OR ability to acquire Series 66 upon hire
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Minimum 2 years of financial services or relevant experience
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Attainment of CFP® Certification is highly encouraged
The Purpose of Your Role The Planning Consultant works alongside the Financial Consultant and/or Wealth Planner in a financial planning capacity. This role expands upon the planning capabilities available to engage Fidelity’s most valuable clients. In addition to the primarily role of conducting financial planning interactions, you will support the overall client relationship by using innovative technologies, such as Glance, to maximize efficiencies for clients. You will be in complete alignment with Fidelity’s firm wide initiatives that will give you the opportunity to positively influence clients’ financial plans. You will see your impact on the business and have rewarding interactions with clients every single day!
The Skills You Bring
- Remarkable understanding of financial planning concepts to help clients build effective financial plans for them and their families.
- Ability to profile to understand planning needs and identify appropriate solutions
- You have a vested interest in building relationships and being an advocate for clients
- You are motivated toward success, willing to demonstrate ownership, and committed to achieving meaningful goals
- Comfort making outbound calls to further educate clients and uncover opportunities
Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Our Investments in You We believe it is important to approach life holistically. Fidelity’s greatest advantage is our people so our benefit programs(opens in a new tab) are designed to help you and your loved ones strike the right balance. Sound too good to be true? See for yourself and learn more about our benefits offerings:
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The Value You Deliver
- Conducting joint appointments with clients, focused on consultations through Fidelity’s guidance offering
- Educating and planning with clients to uncover opportunities that will lead to the client’s success
- Creating and maintaining an organized client contact strategy, including engaging business partners and using tools such as Salesforce
- Building long-lasting, meaningful relationships with clients
- Mentoring and supporting the success of your peers
How Your Work Impacts the Organization Through your knowledge of financial planning and your ability to build relationships, you will effectively profile, navigate and present the output of our guidance tools, leading to an in-depth discussion around our planning concepts. This will lead you to uncover additional complex planning opportunities in which you’ll partner with the Financial Consultant or Wealth Planner to develop further. This partnership will allow the team to further meet the needs of our clients! Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles. The base salary range for this position is $66,000-125,000 USD per year. Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors. Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation. We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career. Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted. Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Certifications: Series 07 - FINRA, Series 66 - FINRA Category:
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,114 open Financial Planning jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$66–125K/yr
- US median$105–166K/yr754 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $96K, is 30% below the US median midpoint ($136K) — in the lowest quarter of Financial Planning salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 20 open Financial Planning jobs in Massachusetts and 1,114 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Cardinal Health65 open
- Citigroup64 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Financial Planning postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 948 postings).
- Education
- 574 of the 1,114 open Financial Planning jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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