Personal Trust Associate

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 Personal Trust Associate provides trust administration service to trust clients, beneficiaries, attorneys and CPA's. The Trust Associate works with Trust Officers and Financial Advisors to facilitate the administration of trust accounts in accordance with the terms of the trust document. The Trust Associate must be familiar with the trust accounts in order to respond to various questions and be able to determine information to release or withhold from inquiries.

What We're Looking For

• Assist in communication of trust activity to clients, beneficiaries, CPAs, attorneys, banks, money managers, insurance companies, and financial advisors. Perform administrative functions related to the review and interpretation of life insurance trusts. Follow-up to obtain original documents, contact insurance companies to gather information and to obtain personal information from beneficiaries. Communicate with Insurance Trust Monitor to ensure they have the correct information in their database and review of their administrative and compliance work related to insurance trusts.
• Provide an alternative source of service when Trust Officers are unavailable. Review incoming mail, trial balance, account activity and pending distributions. Prioritize tasks and take appropriate action. Respond to clients and Financial Advisors calls. Identify potential problems or crisis situations and advise manager.
• Perform general duties related to the administration of trust documents. Duties include: prepare stop payments and voids for checks, prepare wire transfer forms for money transfers, assist in the closing of trust accounts and verify the account is flat, upon death of client take all necessary steps to finalize client bills and direct deposits, obtain date of death information, ensure clients get refunds when requested, initiate changes on trust accounts and verify completion, prepare client information for imaging by assigning appropriate codes and know how to use the imaging system.
• Open accounts on the trust system. Ensure the coding is correct for proper administration. Ensure the correct clients and interested parties are set up on the account for statements.
• Research real estate and miscellaneous assets.
• Provide information needed to transfer the assets and follow-up until the transfer is complete. Work with Trust Officer to update real estate deeds and records as needed.
• Provide trust tax information to outsourcing partner. Ensure estimated payments are made in a timely manner.

What You'll Bring

• Understand and comply with all regulations, including 12CFR9, Community Reinvestment Act, Bank Secrecy Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, etc.
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Ability to understand the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Education & Experience

• Minimum Required: Associate's degree in business administration or equivalent work experience
• Minimum Required: 1-3 years' related experience in financial services

Licenses & Credentials

• Minimum Required: None

Systems & Technology

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, 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's bank and trust companies are equal opportunity employers. All candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. If you would like more information regarding Equal Employment Opportunity rights and protections, please review the following information: Know Your Rights.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.