Executive Assistant - CISO

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.

The Executive Assistant to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) serves as a trusted partner within a regulated financial services organization. This role operates with a high degree of discretion and provides executive-level administrative support in a cybersecurity environment. The position requires sound judgment, strict confidentiality, and the ability to operate effectively amid regulatory obligations, board engagement, and incident-driven priorities. The individual must manage competing priorities while maintaining professionalism across executive leadership, regulators, and internal stakeholders.

• Provide administrative support, including preparation and editing of correspondence, communications, presentations, and executive materials.
• Manage and maintain complex executive calendars, appointments, and travel arrangements, ensuring alignment with shifting business and risk priorities.
• Record and distribute accurate meeting minutes, as well as track and follow up on action items to ensure timely execution.
• Support expense management, budget tracking, invoice processing, and vendor coordination in accordance with firm policies.
• Manage highly sensitive documents, presentations, and files with strict confidentiality and secure handling practices.
• Exercise sound judgment and discretion consistent with executive-level access, including exposure to confidential cybersecurity, regulatory, and incident-related matters.

• Ability to understand and appropriately handle communications and materials containing cybersecurity, information technology, and risk management concepts.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and adhere to ethical principles regarding data and information obtained as part of professional duties.
• Experience in regulated financial services environments such as banking or broker-dealer organizations.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills to effectively support organizational change.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks, responsibilities, and deadlines, and to follow through on goals, manage expectations appropriately, and use the firm’s resources efficiently.

• Minimum Required: Associate’s degree or combination of education and experience.
• Minimum Required: 3+ years’ experience as an executive assistant or administrative professional.
• Preferred: Experience supporting cybersecurity, information security, risk, or technology executives.

• Minimum Required: None.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and Jira.
• Experience with corporate expense management systems preferred.

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.