Financial Sales Professional with an Accelerated Path to Management

Note: If applying as a student, you must be in your final semester.

Are you looking for a job where you can use your experience to propel your career into management? At New York Life, we will invest in you from the start to help you learn and grow as a financial professional first. We’ll train you in valuable skills, such as marketing, business development, and customer relationship management, and provide you with the tools you need to further your career. Then we’ll train you and provide you with access to the tools you need for a career in management.

Discover a career with a purpose

We believe that New York Life is a meaningful place to work, no matter what stage of your career you are in. We pride ourselves on showing our employees the same level of attention, dedication, and care that we show our policy owners. Every single member of our workforce is critical to our mission.

We are building a team of highly motivated financial professionals with an entrepreneurial mindset with New York Life Insurance Company/NYLIFE Securities, LLC.

The job you never knew you wanted: https://tinyurl.com/WhyNewYorkLife

JOB DESCRIPTION

New York Life and its affiliates are dedicated to prudent financial management, high-quality products, and impeccable service. Our financial professionals help clients develop a sound, long term financial strategy to achieve their financial goals using a comprehensive array of financial products and services, including life insurance, investments, annuities, and mutual funds

As an entry level financial sales professional with New York Life, you will be able to build your practice and help those in your community plan for their financial futures. We’re looking for people who possess the following characteristics:

-Highly self-motivated and self-disciplined with the ability to work effectively and independently

-Outgoing personality with the ability to develop relationships (i.e., “People Person") and a sincere desire to help others

-Fearless, positive attitude and willingness to be accountable for results

-Organized, detail-oriented and excellent time-management skills

-Desire for continuous learning

-Good communicator—excellent listening skills and ability to explain complex information in a simple and concise manner

WHY NEW YORK LIFE?

From quality training programs to a competitive compensation package, New York Life offers tremendous support and benefits to our financial professionals. Our dedicated teams at the General Office and the corporate office support our agents and help them impact their customers and communities. Our extensive, agent-focused resources include:

-Our NYLIC University training program, designed to provide career-long support and growth including specialized training for those interested in the management career path

-The Professional Alliance Program, which helps you strengthen existing relationships with attorneys, accountants, and other financial professionals by being able to share commissions on client referrals that lead to sales

-Our Advanced Planning Group, Eagle Strategies for qualifying agents who are also Registered Representatives, and the Nautilus Group for qualifying agents who pay a monthly subscription fee, are three highly-skilled teams providing advanced markets support

-Committed managers who don’t sell; instead they’re dedicated to helping you succeed

-A team of highly-trained, experienced product consultants to support your client acquisition needs

-Significant income potential

-Substantial benefits, including a defined benefit pension plan and 401k

ABOUT NEW YORK LIFE

We’re proud to be recognized by the following organizations:

• Fortune 2024: World’s Most Admired Companies

• Handshake 2025: Early Talent Award

• Forbes 2024: America’s Best Employers for Diversity

• Seramount: 2024 Best Companies for Multicultural Women

We’re proud of the help we’ve provided and continue to provide our clients

• 5.1 million lives protected (includes all owners of individual life insurance and annuity policies)

• $6 billion in living benefits awarded (includes life and annuity cash value accumulation and qualifying policy dividends paid. Dividends are not guaranteed.)

• $983 million lifetime annuity income paid (includes all payouts on individual income annuity products)

• Over $1.2 trillion life insurance protection in force (includes term, whole, and universal life)

We’re proud of our financial strength.

• A++ Superior (A.M. Best)
• AAA Exceptionally Strong (Fitch)
• Aaa Exceptional (Moody’s)
• AA+ Very Strong (Standard & Poor’s)

1. Offered by properly licensed registered representatives through NYLIFE Securities (member FINRA/SIPC), a Licensed Insurance Agency and a New York Life company.

2. Wealth management and advisory services offered by Financial Advisors of Eagle Strategies LLC, a Registered Investment Adviser and a New York Life company. Qualification requirements include but are not limited to applicable FINRA general securities, agent state law, investment advisory licenses, compliance history, production standards, and required training. Requirements are subject to change.

3. Based on 2022 company data for 7,603 agents operating under our N9 and N8 Agent’s Contracts in all states, without persistency bonus, who were active as of December 31, 2022. N9 is the current contract for new financial professionals. N8 contracts were issued to new financial professionals prior to April 2004. Contracts determine your compensation and benefits. Sales production requirements are determined annually by the company. Historical agent incomes are provided for informational purposes only. Agent income is not guaranteed. Income is dependent upon the sales of each agent. Agent compensation is commission-based and determined through the ledger process. Overall compensation includes positive income credits for commissions based on actual sales and certain allowances or incentives, if eligible, based upon persistency and production, as well as debits associated with commission reversals, authorized expenses, and other items. Each credit and debit posted to the Agent’s Ledger is part of determining the agent’s compensation and no individual credit posted to the ledger is earned until the ledger reconciliation process is complete. Agents receive payments equal to the positive balance on the Agent’s Ledger after the credits and debits are applied.

4. This is necessarily brief and provides only general descriptions of the benefits available to eligible agents under the applicable plans. Specific terms, such as eligibility and benefits, are determined only by the terms and conditions contained in the relevant plan documents. In the event of any conflict between the information herein and the provisions of the plan documents, the plan documents will govern. The company reserves the right to amend or terminate the benefit plans described herein at any time for any reason.

5. New York Life Insurance Company continues to receive the highest financial strength ratings currently awarded to any life insurer in the U.S. from all four major rating agencies. Source: Individual Third-Party Ratings Reports: A.M. Best A++, Fitch Ratings AAA, Moody’s Aaa, and Standard & Poor’s AA+ (as of 10/18/2022). The ratings do not apply to investment products as they are subject to market risk and will fluctuate in value.

6. A full list of our awards is available here: https://www.newyorklife.com/newsroom/our-awards-and-recognition

7. All figures reflect the consolidated results of New York Life Insurance Company and its domestic insurance subsidiaries, including New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation, for the 12 months ending December 31, 2022.

8. This reflects the consolidated results of New York Life Insurance Company (NYLIC) and its domestic insurance subsidiaries, including New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation (NYLIAC), for the 12months ending December 31, 2022. Individual life insurance in force is the total face amount of individual life insurance contracts (term, whole, and universal life) outstanding for NYLIC and its domestic insurance subsidiaries at a given time. The company’s individual life insurance in force totaled $1,166.01 billion at December 31, 2022 (including $180.61 billion for NYLIAC). Intercompany transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

New York Life is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Job Title: Financial Sales Professional with an Accelerated Path to Management

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Are you comfortable working in commission based sales?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Melville, NY 11747