Formalize Your Employment Relationships & Protect Your Business
HR Solutions for Financial Services Professionals
Protect What You’ve Built—For the Long Haul
Your people are the force driving your firm’s success. They are also the key to the success of any long-term succession or growth strategy. As a supporting element to our M&A work, SRG provides key HR solutions to help you navigate team development best practices and ensure that your business is protected.
Our Employment Agreements service is specifically crafted for the financial services industry and contains uniquely effective elements that balance your need to recruit and grow—with protecting your firm’s long-term value.
No Templates. No Handoffs.
Unlike firms that rely on cookie-cutter templates or handoffs between departments, SRG offers a seamless, high-touch experience with a single, expert point of contact. Every agreement is crafted by an in-house consultant with deep industry knowledge—never outsourced, never diluted.
Knowledge Transfer, Not Just Another Deliverable
Our solutions are personalized, field-tested, and rooted in decades of hands-on experience helping advisors like you build smarter, stronger foundations. With SRG, you’re not just checking a box—you’re gaining a strategic partner committed to your long-term success.
Employment Agreements
Formal Employment Agreements with every staff member will ensure that each party clearly understands their rights and responsibilities as a result of the employment relationship.
The agreements will also ensure that all essential items of the employment relationship are captured in writing so misunderstandings can be avoided or resolved prior to commencing the relationship and give everyone something to go back to in the event of a conflict or someone misremembering what was originally agreed to.
For example, a written agreement should include the following elements to ensure that the employee has a good understanding of the general expectations of their job role, that important protections are in place, and that each party’s rights and responsibilities are clearly outlined:
Key Elements of a Written Agreement:
Service at a Glance
The team at SRG will leverage our consultants’ expertise and our extensive library of industry-specific employee or contractor agreements to help you create agreements of your own, tailored to your unique business and needs, so you have the resources you need to support your growing organization.
We offer three service packages based on your needs. At a minimum all of our employment agreement services include:
- Single point of contact
- Industry specific questionnaire
- Industry resources
- Personalized employment agreement
Depending on your package, we guarantee your agreement(s) within 14 to 60 days following receipt of complete information. Most revisions are turned around within 48 hours, depending on the complexity of your request.
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See a Sample Agreement
Tailored. Thorough. Field-Tested.
Get a firsthand look at one of our customized employment agreements for financial professionals. Our templates reflect real-world use, legal peer review, and SRG’s deep expertise in your industry—built to protect your business and empower your team.
Ready to Start?
Kickstart your compensation design journey with Succession Resource Group. If there are no convenient time slots, please fill out this contact form or call us directly at (503) 427-9910. Our team will be in touch with you at our earliest convenience.
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Thank you for all your help. It’s nice to be able to step forward with confidence knowing that we have thought this through well and we have a fair offering to anyone that we employ and a clear career track to move forward.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Our Employment Agreements service is designed to provide you with industry-tested and personalized solutions for establishing a core set of documents and procedures that ensure consistency and ease of ongoing human capital management.
This service is ideal for growing firms with key client-facing employees or contractors, where the owner is ready to add structure and formality to protect the business, both now and in the long term.
The business owner and/or key operations management staff should engage in the Employment Agreements service.
We discourage you from including general staff members on these calls, at least initially. It is common to include key operations management staff; however, it is still discretionary.
We request you complete a questionnaire and provide any/all relevant documentation on your current employment/contractor relationship and previously established commitments.
We are happy to include language in the employment agreements referencing your current equity sharing strategy(s). However, if you need to create an equity sharing plan from scratch for your employees, this would fall under our Equity Sharing Plan service.
Reviewing your team’s agreements annually is considered best practice, though timing can vary based on your resources and preferences as an employer. We recommend incorporating our annual compensation and staffing research service into your broader yearly review process to stay aligned with industry standards.
Contact us!
(503)427-9910
Julia Sexton, CVA, Director of Strategic Organizational Planning
Courtney Sobkow, Project Coordinator
Additional Resources
Explore more below for resources specific to Employment Agreements – and if you’re looking for even more guidance, visit our full Resource Library.
