Senior Compliance Analyst-Advisory Services

Stifel Financial Corp.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Stifel Financial Corp. in St. Louis seeks a Senior Compliance Analyst-Advisory Services to join the Advisory Services team.

You will apply deep knowledge of Firm policies, advisory products, and applicable regulations to build clearer, scalable compliance processes and collaborate with Home Office and branches. The role requires independent judgment, strong data/testing skills, and experience with SEC/FINRA/NYSE rules.

Qualifications

• Develop enhanced oversight procedures and controls for advisory programs.
• Lead regression testing, data quality control, and test plan development.
• Maintain department SOPs and ensure documented, scalable processes.
• Review Advisory Compliance Program including ethics oversight and asset journaling.
• Monitor regulatory changes relating to investment advisers and implement controls.
• Collaborate with Advisory Operations, Trading, and Central Supervision.
• Handle branch inquiries about advisory policies and rules.

Responsibilities

• Assist with overseeing advisory program compliance.
• Develop and run oversight reports.
• Coordinate regression testing and data validation.
• Maintain SOPs and improve workflows.
• Respond to branch inquiries regarding policies.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Advisers Act knowledge

Strong judgment

Data analysis

Regression testing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

7+ years brokerage/investment advisory experience

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

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 Senior Compliance Analyst-Advisory Services is a key member of the Advisory Services team and has thorough knowledge of Firm policies and procedures, advisory services and products, and applicable regulations. This position works closely with Home Office departments and Stifel branches and requires independent thought, excellent judgment, and the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision. The Senior Analyst brings an analytical, process-oriented mindset, challenges legacy practices constructively, and leads the development of clearer, more efficient, scalable, and sustainable compliance processes.

What We're Looking For

• Assist with developing enhanced oversight procedures and controls around the Firm's advisory programs, including developing, enhancing, and running regular oversight reports for the department.
• Lead or coordinate regression testing and data quality control for compliance reports, controls, workflows, data feeds, and system enhancements; establish test plans and acceptance criteria, validate data lineage and source-to-output results, assess exceptions, and oversee remediation and post-implementation verification.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of department standard operating procedures; ensure processes are clearly documented, practical, and consistently applied; evaluate existing workflows and legacy processes; identify root causes and improvement opportunities; and partner with stakeholders to design and implement scalable and sustainable solutions.
• Assist with periodic reviews of the Advisory Compliance Program, including reviews relating to Code of Ethics oversight, reverse churning, journaling assets between accounts, non-eligible assets, books and records retention, etc.
• Monitor rule changes or regulatory developments relating to investment advisers and assist with developing controls to meet such new or modified requirements.
• Work with other internal departments as needed on ongoing maintenance issues, including, but not limited to, Advisory Operations, Operations, Trading, Central Supervision, etc.
• Handle branch inquiries regarding advisory-related policies and procedures. Assist branch personnel with policies, procedures, and relevant regulatory rules.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated organization skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of the Advisers Act, the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act, ERISA, and other relevant regulations and laws that apply to the Firm and its advisory services.
• Thorough knowledge of SEC/FINRA/NYSE rules, regulations, and industry procedures.
• Demonstrated negotiating, conflict management, and decision-making skills, with the ability to deal with all levels of branch and firm associates.
• Communicate complex compliance issues, policies, and procedures credibly and convincingly.
• Ability to identify, correct, and/or elevate disciplinary issues.
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems and applies that analysis to recommend changes or enhancements to advisory compliance programs, controls, and processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading or independently performing regression testing, data validation, reconciliation, and data quality control, including defining test strategies, assessing material exceptions, and communicating results to stakeholders.
• Considers the relative costs, benefits, and firm policy of potential actions and chooses the most appropriate action according to Firm and Team risk.

Education & Experience

• Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum Required: 7+ years of brokerage and/or investment advisory industry experience.

Licenses & Credentials

• Minimum Required: FINRA Series 65 or 66 or ability to obtain within one year of hire.

Systems & Technology

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

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.