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 Financial Advisor Associate (FAA) works under a Financial Advisor (FA) to provide investment services that will help clients achieve their financial goals. The FAA will assist in prospecting new clients to grow the business and should remain current on industry trends.
What We're Looking For- Engage with clients and prospects to identify their financial profile and provide clients with investment services that will align with their objectives and tolerance, and will help them achieve their financial goals.
- Maintain a thorough and current understanding of client needs and goals to make suitable recommendations and implement investment strategies in the client's best interest.
- Perform portfolio evaluations and monitor portfolio performance against client objectives.
- Collaborate with the Financial Advisor in prospecting new clients to grow the business through networking, referrals, and participation in industry related seminars and events; domestic travel may be required.
- Stay current with market trends as well as all industry rules and regulations, policies and procedures, and Firm training and continuing education.
- Review and enter all types of unsolicited orders directly from clients as well as entering all types of solicited and unsolicited orders at the direction of the Financial Advisor.
- Solicit orders to clients at the direction of the Financial Advisor.
- Identify matters that require escalation including suspicious activity, customer complaints, trading errors, and violation of industry regulation or Firm policy.
- Use independent judgement and discretion to determine the unique needs of each client.
- Proven success in establishing rapport with clients; building and maintaining a mutually beneficial, long-term relationships.
- In-depth understanding of the Financial Services industry, domestic and international markets, and applicable regulatory environment.
- Thorough understanding of investment portfolios, products, and services and how to utilize them with individual clients.
- Integrity to perform job functions ethically within the boundaries of the regulatory environment.
- Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree or a combination of education and experience.
- Minimum Required: 5+ years' Financial Services/Brokerage experience
- Minimum Preferred: Series 7 and Series 63 or 66 or must obtain with 3 months from start date.
- Note: If required by state for advisory business Series 63 and 65 or Series 66.
- Proficient in Microsoft 365.
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
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
- At least 5 years of financial services or brokerage experience
- Proven success establishing rapport and maintaining long-term client relationships
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry, domestic and international markets, and applicable regulations
- Thorough understanding of investment portfolios, products, and services
- Series 7 license
- Series 63, Series 66, or applicable Series 63 and 65 licenses; may obtain within three months of start date
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365
- Ability to perform job functions ethically and within regulatory requirements
Stifel Financial Corp. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stifel Financial Corp. and has not been reviewed or approved by Stifel Financial Corp..
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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.
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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.








