Financial Advisor Associate-Investments & Portfolio Analyst

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 Financial Advisor Associate – Investments & Portfolio Analyst works closely with a Financial Advisor (FA) to deliver comprehensive, client-centric investment solutions while providing analytical support in portfolio construction, monitoring, and financial planning. This role blends relationship management, business development, and execution responsibilities with research-driven analysis, asset allocation support, and portfolio oversight to help clients achieve their financial goals.

What We're Looking For

• Engage with clients and prospects to understand financial goals, risk tolerance, time horizons, and investment preferences.
• Maintain a deep and current understanding of client needs to support suitable investment recommendations and long-term relationship growth.
• Act as a secondary point of contact for clients, addressing questions, requests for analysis, and service needs in collaboration with the Financial Advisor.
• Support business development efforts through networking, referrals, and participation in client events and industry seminars.
• Perform portfolio evaluations and ongoing performance monitoring relative to client objectives, benchmarks, and risk parameters.
• Analyze existing holdings to assess appropriateness, identify risks, and recommend portfolio adjustments when warranted.
• Develop customized asset allocation and investment proposals using firm-approved analytical and planning tools.
• Research market trends, product changes, and investment opportunities, synthesizing insights into actionable recommendations.
• Assist in the creation, review, and updating of comprehensive financial plans.
• Enter solicited and unsolicited trades at the direction of the Financial Advisor and process client-directed orders accurately.
• Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, firm policies, and team investment processes.
• Identify and escalate client complaints, suspicious activity, trading errors, or compliance issues.'
• Maintain accurate documentation and records.

What You'll Bring

• Strong client relationship and advisory skills.
• Solid understanding of investments, portfolios, and asset allocation.
• Analytical, detail-oriented, and able to synthesize complex information.
• Excellent communication and time-management skills.
• High ethical standards in a regulated environment.

Education & Experience

• Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum Required: 5+ years of financial services or brokerage experience.

Licenses & Credentials

• Minimum Required: Series 7; and Series 63/65 or 66 as applicable.

Systems & Technology

• Proficient in Microsoft Suite. #LI-AS1

Compensation Range

Salary: USD $150,000.00/Yr. - USD $175,000.00/Yr. Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors, including but not limited to each candidate’s qualifications, skills, and overall competencies for the position. The base salary is one component of Stifel’s overall compensation package for each individual employee. Other benefits and offerings include, but not limited to, discretionary bonuses, health / dental / vision / prescription insurance offerings, Stifel Total Health Connect, flexible spending accounts, tuition & certification assistance programs, paid time off, and much, much more! To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits. Applications are accepted until the position is filled.

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.