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 Operations Associate-Document Control is responsible for assisting branches in reviewing various documents of all account types across the firm. This position requires the ability to understand processes and procedures regarding these account structures and document requirements with a high level of detail. This position will also require collaboration among team members, branch office personnel, and other areas at the firm to provide high-level customer service.
What We're Looking For- Works within established firm guidelines regarding reviewing and approving documents for various account types.
- Identifies account types and account structures to know what documentation is needed.
- Identifies potential problems or issues and escalates to department leadership if necessary.
- Works with Branch Support and New Recruits to review account documentation needed to open and/or update accounts.
- Opens accounts using internal systems and processes, ensuring proper coding.
- Completes various reports to ensure account coding, documents, and other account features are accurate.
- Work collaboratively within a team and with other department areas to perform assigned tasks.
- Provides the highest quality of customer service through written and verbal communication.
- Other department duties may be assigned, including hotline phone calls, department emails, document coding, and other account updates or projects.
- Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to follow up on open tasks.
- Ability to multitask, prioritize and manage time effectively.
- Basic knowledge of account types and account structures along with documentation needed beneficial.
- High-level customer service skills.
- Ability to learn Stifel's applications, industry rules/regulations, and Stifel policies that pertain to the department and Stifel's branches.
- Working knowledge of financial services applications, systems, terminology, and procedures.
- Minimum Required: High School Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent work experience preferred.
- Minimum Required: 0-2 years of professional business-related experience.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Thomson One and BETA knowledge is beneficial.
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
- High school diploma, bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- 0-2 years of professional business-related experience
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Ability to follow up on open tasks
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time effectively
- Basic knowledge of account types, account structures, and required documentation
- High-level customer service skills
- Ability to learn company applications, industry rules and regulations, and firm policies
- Working knowledge of financial services applications, systems, terminology, and procedures
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Thomson One and BETA knowledge
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.







