Hiring: Assistant Vice President - Portfolio Management and Tax Overlay Company: LPL Financial Location: Tempe, AZ Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 19:37:14 Target Skills & Keywords : CFA, Machine Learning, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Portfolio Management, Series 7, Wealth Management About the job Experience: •5+ years in investment-management program leadership, advisory platforms, or overlay-strategy implementations. Required Skills: •Strategic Platform Leadership: Lead rollout and scaling of tax-optimized direct indexing and overlay frameworks, aligning with LPL’s enterprise growth targets. •Innovation in Trading Technology: Design and implement automated tools and proprietary trading platforms to enhance scalability and performance of overlay and direct indexing strategies. •Design and Execution at Scale: Develop and implement sophisticated tax-optimized multi asset UMA and direct indexing overlay trading capabilities that integrate multi-factor risk models with client-specific customizations, delivering scalable, tax-efficient, and highly personalized portfolio solutions. •Tax Overlay Execution: Oversee and manage daily tax efficient portfolio management workflows — account and sleeve-level optimization, trade review and trade execution, and tax sensitive account transition processes leveraging industry leading cloud-based infrastructure, database tools, and machine learning. •Performance Monitoring & Analytics: Drive daily oversight using performance metrics suitable for complex, tax sensitive investment portfolios such as short-term/long-term net realized gains, tracking error at the account and sleeve level, and portfolio statistics to support advisor-facing teams that will mitigate escalations. •Advisor & Stakeholder Engagement: Build high-impact advisor materials, facilitate training sessions, and present the value of tax overlay solutions to internal and external stakeholders. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s Degree required. •2 + years of quadratic and mixed-integer optimization and multi-factor risk modeling, with hands-on experience using industry-leading platforms such as Axioma, Northfield, MSCI Barra & QIS, n-factor Risk Models, Vestmark VAST, Envestnet/PMC or other advanced tax overlay technologies for scalable, tax-aware portfolio construction. •Demonstrated success in driving enterprise initiatives with executive-level impact. •Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and deliver against tight deadlines. •Exceptional storytelling, presentation, and influencing skills; comfortable engaging C-suite and advisor audiences. •Deep expertise in unified managed accounts, portfolio accounting systems, and trading operations. •Strong analytical mindset; data science and deep data analytics background, advanced Excel (pivot tables, VBA/macros), and data-visualization proficiency. •Solid functional working knowledge of Modern Portfolio Theory, multi-factor risk models, and tax-optimization algorithms. •Strategic thought leader with strong analytical skills. •Expert user of Microsoft Excel, Access, and PowerPoint, including pivot tables and SmartSheet. Compensation: •$119,480 - $199,099 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!