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Our 18-month leadership development programs (LDP) offer high achieving recent graduates full-time positions with Ameriprise. You’ll rotate through different departments within a given program and work on important projects to improve your technical experience and leadership skills. And you’ll have dedicated support from a company leader throughout the entire program.
Program highlights include:
- Professional and personal development
- Challenging and meaningful work
- Exposure to senior leaders
- Networking with peers and co-workers
- Involvement in the community
Read on for a summary of each LDP program:
Business Management
Launch your career with the growth engine of Ameriprise Financial — the Personal Advisors Group.
This group includes approximately 10,000 financial advisors and a dedicated corporate staff that drives profitable growth in the employee and franchise advisor platforms.
You’ll work in three different areas within this group for six months at a time. You’ll gain valuable experience supporting advisors in areas such as:
- Compensation development
- Practice management
- Risk mitigation
- Experienced advisor recruiting
The Personal Advisors Group accepts students from a variety of educational backgrounds, including business generalists who want experience in sales and business support strategies.
Find leadership development opportunities in the business management program
Corporate Actuarial
This three-year actuarial rotation program offers challenging assignments modeling and managing contingent and financial risk.
- Assist with monthly, quarterly and annual valuations of a particular line of business.
- Deliver detailed analysis behind variances in financial reporting.
- Work with projection software systems.
- Learn various regulatory requirements.
Ideal applicants have completed coursework in actuarial science, passed one or more actuarial exams, and are pursuing a Fellowship of the Society of Actuaries designation.
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Finance
The Finance Leadership Development Program gives you analytical experience in accounting and reporting, decision support and enterprise finance process. As part of the program, you’ll:
- Learn how to reach bottom-line relationships between separate line items, general ledger and tax accounting, internal controls and data reporting.
- Create decision-support-based analytics for business partners and annual planning process.
Blend your finance and accounting skills on business projects involving our internal service providers and business processes.
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Human Resources
Human Resources helps attain, inspire, develop and retain diverse talent to improve business results. You’ll get direct experience in three of the following Centers of Excellence:
- Compensation and benefits
- Employee relations
- Organizational effectiveness and development
- Talent acquisition and diversity
- HR services
- HR generalists
Ideal candidates have completed coursework in human resources and organizational effectiveness.
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Marketing
Explore the strategies and research required to build a powerful brand. You’ll develop critical marketing skills as you complete three rotations in the following areas:
- Consumer marketing
- Client acquisition, retirement, and wealth strategies
- Interactive strategy and marketing
- Financial planning
Ideal applicants are creative, strategic thinkers with strong communication and project management skills. Business coursework is required, with a concentration in marketing
Find leadership development opportunities in the marketing program