Jobs at Kestra Financial

Investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents, manage escalated SOC alerts, conduct threat hunting and digital forensics, perform root cause analysis, develop mitigation strategies and incident response playbooks, support audits, and collaborate with IT and security teams to contain and remediate threats.

Leads advanced financial planning support for financial advisors and investors, developing comprehensive plans across investments, taxes, estates, retirement, and insurance. Mentors planning staff, delivers presentations and educational content, advises on planning technology, improves processes, and leads strategic department projects. Requires strong analytical, communication, and relationship-building skills, CFP certification, advanced planning software and Excel expertise, and at least seven years of financial planning experience.

Leads enterprise data governance strategy, data quality, stewardship, master and reference data management, metadata, lineage, and golden records. Establishes governance policies, metrics, ownership models, and remediation processes while overseeing tools such as Alation, Monte Carlo, and Profisee. Partners with data, cybersecurity, compliance, and business teams to embed governance into platforms, pipelines, modernization initiatives, and AI/ML programs. Directly supervises data governance professionals and analysts.

Serves as the primary advisor-facing expert for the PWS platform, supporting technology implementation, onboarding, escalations, retention, and ongoing advisor relationships. Provides onsite transition and wellness support, coordinates issue resolution, tracks retention and escalations, generates executive reporting, and assists with advisor events and communications. Coaches team members, develops best practices, and helps advisors and staff understand and maximize Kestra’s platform and services.

Recruit advisors to the Kestra Financial Network through outbound calling, email campaigns, networking, virtual meetings, and technology demonstrations. Qualify and nurture prospects throughout the recruitment process, maintain Salesforce activity records, develop financial models in Excel, support transition discussions, build referral partnerships, manage territory research, and assist external recruiters with appointments and business development.

Own the Trusted Master Data product backlog across Account, Product Classification, Advisor, and Client domains. Lead Profisee MDM delivery, match-and-merge and survivorship configuration, data governance, stewardship training, stakeholder alignment, roadmap planning, data quality validation, release coordination, and downstream publication to ODS and Lakehouse environments. Partner with engineering, business owners, data stewards, and analytics teams to establish trusted enterprise data and ensure successful domain rollouts.

Provides expert employee relations guidance, conducts workplace investigations, coaches managers, interprets employment policies, assesses legal and organizational risk, manages unemployment claims, supports compliance and training, and identifies trends to improve workplace culture and people practices.

Own full-cycle recruiting for IT and technology roles, from workforce planning and sourcing through offer acceptance and onboarding transition. Partner with hiring managers, provide talent market and compensation insights, build technical talent pipelines, assess candidates, monitor recruiting metrics, maintain ATS data, support employer branding and DEI initiatives, and mentor recruiting team members.

Reviews financial professionals’ advertising, sales literature, social media, and communications for FINRA, SEC, state, and internal compliance requirements. Develops controls, procedures, training materials, and approved content libraries; files communications with FINRA; conducts regulatory research; and advises internal and external stakeholders. The role requires strong knowledge of SEC Marketing Rule requirements, financial services advertising regulations, securities and insurance products, and dual broker-dealer/RIA environments.

Leads strategic investment product launches and platform implementations from planning through post-launch optimization. Owns portfolio governance, prioritization, capacity planning, dependency and risk management, agile delivery cadences, launch readiness, executive reporting, and benefits realization. Coordinates technology, compliance, legal, business development, marketing, operations, finance, and advisor-facing teams to deliver measurable outcomes such as product adoption, revenue, platform utilization, and operational efficiency within a regulated wealth management environment.

Supports advisors and staff with managed-account operations, platform questions, service requests, account processing, deposits, withdrawals, and investment transactions. Trains users on advisory platforms, monitors operational workflows, maintains communication records in Salesforce, reviews requests for compliance and accuracy, and partners with custodians, vendors, and internal teams to deliver effective client service. Requires strong communication, organization, problem-solving, attention to detail, Microsoft Office proficiency, and securities licensing or the ability to obtain required licenses.

Facilitate Scrum and Kanban ceremonies for multiple Data, Analytics, and AI teams. Partner with Product Owners on backlog management, remove impediments, coordinate dependencies across distributed teams, coach stakeholders on Agile practices, improve release planning, and use performance metrics to drive continuous improvement and predictable delivery.

Provides senior-level enterprise help desk support for hardware, software, identity, access, Microsoft 365, endpoint, network, and collaboration technologies. Escalates complex issues, mentors junior technicians, administers Active Directory and Entra ID, manages devices and IT assets, supports conference rooms and executives, documents procedures, performs root cause analysis, and implements automation using PowerShell and Microsoft tools.

Provides administrative and legal support to the corporate legal team, including document preparation, board meeting materials, corporate governance records, litigation tracking, subpoena responses, M&A filings, audits, registered-agent filings, and insurance coverage and renewal coordination. Handles confidential information and manages legal department scheduling, records, and communications with advisors and external entities.

Develop and execute advisor-facing marketing strategies for wealth management firms. Assess advisor needs, create prioritized marketing roadmaps, coordinate vendors and internal teams, support branding and onboarding, and deliver scalable education through webinars, workshops, newsletters, and toolkits. Track activity and outcomes while ensuring alignment with financial-services compliance requirements.

Conduct AML investigations, review CIP and FinCEN alerts, assess suspicious activity, prepare regulatory filings, and resolve privacy breaches. The role collaborates with internal departments and vendors, monitors compliance with BSA, Patriot Act, OFAC, FACTA, and Reg S-P requirements, identifies process improvements, and provides analytical insights. Series 7 and Series 24 licenses are required, with CAMS preferred.

Lead Scrum and Kanban teams supporting data, analytics, and AI initiatives. Facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage impediments and dependencies, coach teams and stakeholders, improve release planning and delivery processes, and use Agile metrics to drive continuous improvement. Partner with Product Owners on backlog prioritization and value delivery while promoting engineering best practices, predictable delivery, automation, continuous delivery, technical debt management, and product sustainability.

Lead the creation and operation of Kestra’s observability and reliability practice. Build the observability platform, instrumentation standards, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, and incident-management processes. Act as incident commander, integrate tooling with Jira and cybersecurity systems, drive SRE adoption, support regulatory requirements, and report reliability metrics to executives. This player-coach role manages an initially small distributed team, mentors engineers, partners across technology functions, and develops the long-term workforce and service strategy.

Leads Kestra’s Azure cloud and platform engineering organization, owning cloud strategy, architecture, governance, reliability, FinOps, security alignment, and regulatory compliance. The role will mature infrastructure operations into a service-oriented, SRE-aligned platform function, establish service catalogs and reliability practices, optimize cloud spending, and manage a global team of platform engineers. The director will also oversee vendor relationships, executive reporting, architecture governance, and cross-functional initiatives with engineering, data, AI, and cybersecurity teams.

Directs regulatory compliance for an independent broker-dealer and RIA platform. Leads FINRA, SEC, and state examinations, inquiries, complaints, investigations, regulatory filings, remediation, and books-and-records management. Oversees compliance personnel, evaluates risks and control gaps, monitors regulatory developments, and provides executive and board reporting. Partners cross-functionally to implement corrective actions, strengthen policies and surveillance, and support representatives. Requires extensive financial-services compliance experience, people leadership, strong regulatory expertise, and FINRA Series 7, 24, and 63 or 66 licenses.