Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole.
Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
What You'll Be DoingStifel’s Regulatory Affairs team plays an important role in helping the firm address regulatory matters and navigate the financial services regulatory environment. The Compliance-Regulatory Affairs Intern will gain an inside look at how the team works with regulatory agencies and responds to a variety of regulatory matters. This role will collaborate with team members on a variety of daily assignments and special projects, complete a summer-long project with the team’s guidance, and build connections with professionals across Compliance and the firm.
What We're Looking For- Learn the basic functions, processes, and responsibilities of the Regulatory Affairs team.
- Gain exposure to the regulatory environment and primary regulatory agencies within the financial services industry.
- Assist team members with daily tasks related to various regulatory matters.
- Contribute to special projects based on the needs of the team.
- Complete a summer project with the cooperation and guidance of team members.
- Build professional relationships by networking with professionals across Compliance and other areas of the firm.
- Strong interest in learning about regulatory affairs and the financial services industry.
- Positive attitude and team-focused approach.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate and maintain constructive working relationships with others.
- Ability to manage assigned tasks and changing priorities.
- Minimum Required: Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in a legal, finance, or related field.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.
While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in legal, finance, or a related field
- Strong interest in regulatory affairs and the financial services industry
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to collaborate and maintain constructive working relationships
- Ability to manage assigned tasks and changing priorities
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
Stifel Financial Corp. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation is positioned as highly attractive for financial advisors, with emphasis on meaningful earning upside tied to production. Recognition for advisor satisfaction indicates that incentive mechanics can be a differentiator in producer roles.
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Flexible Benefits — The benefits program is broad and multi-option, spanning multiple health plan choices, FSAs/HSAs, and a wide set of voluntary insurance add-ons. This menu-style design supports tailoring coverage to different life stages and needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are extensive, including parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility and family-building support, and back-up childcare and elder care. These offerings signal a comparatively strong support system for caregiving and family planning.
Stifel Financial Corp. Insights
What We Do
Established in 1890, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is one of the nation’s premier full-service financial services firms, providing brokerage, trading, investment banking, investment advisory, and related services to individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, and municipalities through more than 400 locations across the U.S. Stifel ranks as the 7th largest brokerage firm in the country as measured by number of financial advisors, with approximately 2,300, and features a highly regarded equity research department that has earned numerous accolades from such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Financial Times. In 2023 and 2024, Stifel was recognized as the No. 1 wealth management firm for employee advisor satisfaction, based on the J.D. Power U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study*. Stifel is the principal subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial services holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Stifel Financial Corp.'s other subsidiaries include Stifel Independent Advisors, LLC, an independent contractor broker-dealer firm; Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, the Company’s European subsidiary; Stifel Nicolaus Canada, Inc., our Canadian subsidiary; Stifel Bank and Trust and Stifel Bank, retail and commercial banks; and Stifel Trust Company, N.A. and Stifel Trust Company Delaware, N.A, our trust companies. *Stifel received the highest score among employee advisors in the J.D. Power 2023-2024 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Studies, which measures employee advisors’ satisfaction among those who are employed by an investment services firm. Visit jdpower.com/awards for more details.









