Platform Strategy Specialist

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 Platform Strategy Specialist participates in successful business requirements definition, project management, and implementation of projects critical to the strategic development of the Firm and Stifel's Investment Products and Services platform. The Specialist facilitates prioritizing and overseeing the management of multiple projects and building a good understanding of Stifel's investment products and services, operational processes, compliance policies, and technology infrastructure. The Specialist will be expected to understand the inputs and goals for each project and use this knowledge to facilitate project implementation and effective communication with key stakeholders throughout the firm.

What We're Looking For

• Manage with the day-to-day management of large- and medium-scale projects related to key Firm initiatives.
• Create and maintain detailed project plans that encompass all requirements and dependencies throughout the Firm for successful completion of a project.
• Participate in analyzing business processes and data to determine how to satisfy business needs.
• Organize design review sessions to gather business requirements and issue resolution.
• Provide business knowledge expertise in a focused area of the business by developing a keen understanding of current processes and areas of need.
• In collaboration with management and / or senior team members, work closely with Operations, Compliance, IT, and technology vendors to develop design requirements throughout all phases of the project from system design to implementation.
• Align key technology partner development plans with project priorities, and present reports defining project progress, problems, and solutions.
• Participate in with the documentation of required processes for ongoing system or service support, organize requirements gathering sessions for ongoing enhancement requests, and own user integration and acceptance testing efforts.
• Participate in the launch of new systems, services, and / or processes in conjunction with the business unit owner by assisting in the creation of training documentation, adoption plans, and deployment efforts.

What You'll Bring

Education & Experience

Systems & Technology

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.