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 DoingThe Compliance-Rotational Intern will rotate across the Employee Activities, Branch Activities, and Surveillance teams, gaining exposure to a variety of compliance, supervisory, risk-management, and operational processes. Throughout the internship, the Intern will collaborate with experienced team members and contribute to assignments such as analyzing report data, supporting preparation for branch examinations, maintaining departmental records, and assisting with special projects. The Intern will also shadow team members, attend meetings, and learn how the three teams work with others across the firm to identify, assess, and mitigate risk.
What We're Looking For- Analyze information from reports and compare data related to outside business activities.
- Assist with preliminary work for branch examinations, including gathering documents and information from CRD systems.
- Support testing activities, draft memos, shadow team members, and attend meetings with leadership.
- Assist with operational and administrative functions, including data entry, file maintenance, and records management.
- Contribute to special projects, including the migration of departmental files and resources to SharePoint.
- Work alongside analysts to learn how the teams identify, assess, and mitigate risks while supporting the firm’s compliance and supervisory objectives.
- Assist with additional projects and daily responsibilities based on the needs of each rotation.
- Interest in learning about the financial services industry, compliance, supervision, and risk management.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple responsibilities.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the confidence to communicate with others.
- Ability to work collaboratively, approach assignments with an open mind, and think creatively when evaluating information.
- Minimum Required: Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Pre-Law, or Finance.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
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 Business, Economics, Pre-Law, or Finance
- Interest in financial services, compliance, supervision, and risk management
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple responsibilities
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate and evaluate information creatively
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel
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.







