Associate Trader, Wealth Management

Aprio is seeking an Associate Trader to join its Wealth Management team, where you will play a central role in the daily execution, operations, and continuous improvement of trading activity across client accounts. You will execute trades across equities, fixed income, ETFs, and mutual funds while maintaining alignment to model portfolios, client guidelines, and regulatory requirements. This role sits at the intersection of trading operations, data integrity, and emerging automation, offering the opportunity to directly shape how the desk evolves through AI-assisted workflows and process improvement. You will collaborate closely with advisors, the investment team, and internal operations to support accurate, timely, and compliant execution for clients.

Responsibilities

Run post-trade audits, reconciling prior day activity in Orion Eclipse against custodian fills, and investigate discrepancies and settlement issues; Set accounts up to trade to their assigned model in Orion Eclipse, covering new accounts and allocation changes on existing accounts; Maintain account, model, and security data to support daily trading activity, model-wide trades, and rebalancing; Assist with account transitions and onboarding for newly acquired RIAs and advisor practices; Respond to trade-related questions from advisors promptly and coordinate with internal operations and the investment team; Monitor account drift against assigned models and build and maintain recurring reporting, including dispersion and drift reviews, cash, money market, holdings reports, and reconciliation files; Write and maintain procedures for recurring work and keep a clear written record behind trades and exceptions; Execute daily trade requests in Orion Eclipse across equities, bonds, ETFs, and mutual funds accurately and on time; Trade accounts assigned to a model, keeping holdings in line with model targets; Raise cash for distributions, fees, and client requests, and invest incoming contributions and new money to the assigned model; Trade in line with the firm's approach, client guidelines, and regulatory requirements, including managing the tax impact for clients; Provide desk coverage during time off, periods of market volatility, and high-volume trading days; Own a share of the desk's automation work by identifying manual and repetitive steps and rebuilding them to reduce time and errors; Design, test, and document AI-assisted workflows and agents for reconciliation prep, exception reporting, data validation, and routine documentation

Requirements

One to three years of experience in trading, trade operations, or investment operations at an RIA, wealth management firm, or asset manager; Hands-on experience trading in model-based rebalancing or trade order management software (Orion Eclipse, Tamarac, iRebal, TRX, Envestnet, or similar); Hands-on experience with at least one major custodial platform (Schwab, Fidelity, Pershing, Altruist, or similar); Highly proficient in Excel, with demonstrated ability to work through large data sets accurately; Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, business, mathematics, statistics, or a related field; SIE and applicable Series licenses, or the ability to obtain them within three months of hire

Nice to have

Experience with Python for data work (reading, reconciling, and validating trade and position files); Demonstrated use of tooling to remove manual steps from a recurring process (Power Query, advanced Excel automation, macros, scripting, or similar); Hands-on use of AI tools, including designing or configuring AI-assisted workflows or agents

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment; Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account; 401k with Profit Sharing; 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure; Parental Leave covering primary and secondary caregivers; Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion; Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance; Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales; Top rated wellness program; Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options