The one-year Financial Services Ontario College Graduate Certificate program prepares you for a challenging and rewarding career in the customer sales and service areas of: banking insurance financial planning wealth management In this program, you build on your pre-existing business skills, financial knowledge and professional experience. You are introduced to financial products and services and financial advising. You learn how to create and present financial plans. As well, you practise collecting and analyzing client information and providing financial advice based on that information. You also participate in work-integrated learning. This gives you the opportunity to practise your skills and knowledge in a realistic financial services workplace context. Algonquin College partners with The Canadian Securities Institute (CSI) to offer the Financial Services Graduate Certificate program, which is an approved educational path to Personal Financial Planner®(PFP®) designation and prepares you to write the Applied Financial Planning Certification examination, which is necessary to obtain the PFP® designation. The PFP® is not awarded by Algonquin College. For more information on this credential, refer to the following website: https://www.csi.ca/student/en_ca/designations/pfp.xhtml. You may find employment as a personal financial or investment advisor in a broad range of financial institutions. These might include: banks credit unions financial planning offices insurance companies brokerage firms