Financial Sales Advisor - Financial Sales Advisor BBVA Employee Review

4.0
18 Apr 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits are pretty good and there is decent work life balance. There are a lot of great products for clients and promotions are always going on. Management is very accommodating if you need to leave for personal or business appointments. The FSA role gives you the opportunity to obtain life and health, series 6 and 63. Great position if you are looking to get into wealth or advising.

Cons

Way too many systems. You have to go to different places to handle each task. Things are constantly changing with hardly any communication. There is not a lot of room for growth. A lot of the senior management is coming from Chase so the culture has increasingly become high stress and micromanaged. There are so many different focuses and it is a very high pressure environment. If you are not very very good at sales, you will struggle. You need to be able to turn service into sales. Additionally the pay is considerably low and the incentive plan is terrible. This is not a good place for a seasoned banker.

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Cons

That being said, any team or department that lefts unchecked can end up becoming toxic which happened at my team. There was a VP/ED who was mistreating me to a point where it was a violation of the code of conduct and was impacting my overall internship experience and my chances at a full time job because this ed/vp was allowed to mistreat based on personal biases against me. I reported it to our manager during our midterm meeting to which I phrased it as “he was in violation of the code of conduct and has been abusive”. Instead he yelled at me during the meeting because he didn’t want to lose someone who downgraded from a BB that he got for cheap. He said in the end of the meeting he would talk with the Ed/vp but a month later he pulled me into a room with HR and said today was the last day of my internship. Very unprofessional as he clearly sided with the toxic Ed/vp and booted me out because he didn’t want to lose the Ed/vp even if he was in violation of the code of conduct. Horrible experince and everyone in my team failed to uphold to professional decency. As long as everyone in that team is still there would not recommend this team at BBVA unless something structurally changes.

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