Director, Advanced Planning – Tax and Estate Planning

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About the role

  • Sun Life tax and estate planning director advising high-net-worth clients through financial advisors. Delivering tax education, consultations, and sales support for wealth and insurance solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Provide advanced tax and estate planning solution advice to high net worth end-clients through financial advisors
  • Educate financial advisors and internal audiences on tax-efficient products and services
  • Keep regional sales teams current on tax and estate planning solutions
  • Partner with the Regional Sales Director to drive wealth and insurance product sales
  • Provide advisors with case consultation and support for tax-efficient insurance solutions
  • Promote and deliver tax and estate planning advice to sales teams and distribution partners
  • Deliver tax presentations to large audiences
  • Promote sales tools, financial planning concepts, and specialty needs analyses
  • Consult with high net worth clients, accountants, and lawyers to identify tax-planning opportunities
  • Build and enhance relationships across Sun Life distribution channels
  • Create and deploy consumer and allied-advisor reference materials
  • Deliver presentations, training workshops, and client seminars
  • Participate in case development, research, and special illustrations
  • Participate in industry profile-building activities
  • Research current tax and estate planning issues

Requirements

  • Bilingual in Mandarin
  • Strong knowledge of personal and corporate tax planning
  • Experience with retirement compensation arrangements, charitable gifting, wills and trusts, and business ownership and succession planning
  • Experience working in the High Net Worth market
  • Experience creating PowerPoint presentations
  • Excellent presentation, facilitation and training skills
  • Excellent understanding of industry trends and their implications for business sales results/objectives
  • Strong knowledge of personal and corporate taxation
  • CA, CPA, LL.B or FCIA designation
  • Completion of the CICA In-depth Tax Program and the In-Depth Tax Issues for the Owner Manager Business course considered an asset
  • Strong organization and analytical skills
  • Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Minimum of 5 years of professional experience within the financial services industry

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and bonus structure influenced by market range data
  • Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
  • Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
  • Wellness programs supporting mental, physical and financial health
  • Fitness and wellness programs
  • Work-life balance and flexible scheduling
  • Hybrid work with the choice and flexibility to work from the office and virtually
  • Incentive plan
  • Diversity and inclusion initiatives
  • Disability accommodations in the application process

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$110,000 - CA$180,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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