Wealth Strategist I

Posted 17 Days Ago
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Saint Louis, MO, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Fintech
The Role
Provides estate and tax planning consultation to financial advisors and clients, including analyses of estate plans, income tax situations, charitable planning, wealth transfer, asset protection, and business succession. Develops client- and advisor-facing educational materials, conducts seminars and training, coordinates with outside attorneys and tax advisors, and supports marketing for Estate & Tax Planning Services. Travel may be required up to 25%.
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Why Stifel

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 Doing

The Wealth Strategist I serves as a resource for Financial Advisors ("FAs") on issues affecting clients of varying wealth profiles. The Wealth Strategist provides estate and tax planning knowledge and consultation in addition to serving as the primary external sales and marketing support for Estate & Tax Planning Services, part of Stifel's Wealth Planning Department. Estate & Tax Planning Services covers topics such as simple and complex financial planning, estate planning, tax planning, charitable planning, business continuation and succession planning, and personal trust planning. Specific issues covered include strategies for concentrated positions, equity-based compensation, asset protection, multi-generational wealth transfer, federal and state death tax minimization, wealth replacement, gifting, key-person insurance, qualified plans, and non-qualified deferred compensation. Consulting services range from conference calls and/or in-person meetings with Stifel FAs and their individual clients, to conducting client seminars and training sessions for Stifel FAs, other Stifel employees, and outside centers of influence, such as attorneys and tax advisors.

What We're Looking For

• Drafting and presenting detailed analyses of individual clients' estate plan and/or income tax situation by phone or in person.• Consulting by phone, via email, and in person with Stifel FAs and their individual clients.• Consulting with clients' outside counsel and/or tax advisors to coordinate appropriate solutions for clients. Marketing, Training, & Education• Generating and maintaining client-facing and advisor-facing educational materials.• Developing and presenting educational seminars for clients and internal training seminars for Stifel FAs.• Educating FAs and clients with respect to relevant topics. Other• Traveling as necessary (up to 25%).

What You'll Bring

• Ability to analyze and simplify complicated estate and tax planning situations to provide high quality solutions for clients of varying wealth profiles.• Ability to explain estate and tax planning concepts in a manner that can be easily understood by clients.• Strong analytical skills.

Education & Experience

• Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or related field or equivalent work related experience• Minimum Required: Juris Doctor or Certified Public Accountant• Minimum Required: 3-5 years of estate and/or tax planning experience

Licenses & Credentials

• Minimum Required: Series 7 and 66 (or 7, 63, and 65) required within first 6 months of employment• Minimum Required: Life, Health, and Long-Term Care Insurance Licenses required within first 6 months of employment

Systems & Technology

• BNA Estate & Gift Tax Planner• BNA Income Tax Planner• MoneyGuidePro• WebEx• Microsoft Office• Adobe Acrobat

About Stifel

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 in business, finance, or a related field, or equivalent work-related experience
  • Juris Doctor or Certified Public Accountant
  • 3-5 years of estate and/or tax planning experience
  • Series 7 and 66 licenses, or Series 7, 63, and 65 licenses, within the first 6 months of employment
  • Life, Health, and Long-Term Care Insurance licenses within the first 6 months of employment
  • Ability to analyze and simplify complex estate and tax planning situations
  • Ability to explain estate and tax planning concepts clearly to clients
  • Strong analytical skills

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..

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: Saint Louis, MO
7,052 Employees
Year Founded: 1890

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.

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