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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.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Special Assets Senior Portfolio Manager (“SASPM”) manages an assigned portfolio of criticized, classified, and other heightened-risk commercial credit relationships at Stifel Bank. The SASPM develops and executes workout and resolution strategies designed to protect the Bank’s interests, minimize losses, and maximize recovery for a portfolio of commercial loans, which may include venture-backed and sponsor-supported companies. The SASPM leads the evaluation of borrower financial condition, liquidity, collateral, and recovery alternatives and works closely with borrowers, sponsors, investors, relationship teams, legal counsel, and credit leadership to achieve optimal outcomes. This position is also eligible to sit in St. Louis, Boston, or San Francisco.
- Manage and maintain a portfolio of active problem loans.
- Develop and implement corrective action plans, workout strategies, amendment structures, restructuring terms, covenant packages, and recovery paths that mitigate loss, preserve optionality, and maximize recovery to the Bank.
- Lead negotiations with borrowers, sponsors, investors, and other stakeholders, and coordinate with legal counsel to execute approved amendments, forbearances, restructurings, settlements, and recovery actions.
- Prepare credit memoranda, periodic reviews, situation updates, and risk rating recommendations for assigned borrowers. Ensure accurate and timely ratings, including support for nonaccrual, charge-off, specific reserve and forecast recommendations.
- Prepare or oversee borrower financial, liquidity, cash-flow, collateral, and recovery analyses supporting recommended workout strategies and credit actions.
- Coordinate analytical and underwriting assignments on the assigned portfolio with Associates and Analysts; review their work for accuracy, completeness, and alignment with the recommended strategy.
- Engage consultants, restructuring advisors, valuation experts, bankruptcy counsel, and other external parties as needed to protect the Bank’s position and support resolution strategy.
- Prepare information and participate, as requested, in management, committee, audit, and regulatory reviews of assigned relationships.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound credit judgment, and attention to detail.
- Ability to lead difficult borrower, sponsor, investor, counsel, and advisor negotiations involving amendments, forbearance agreements, restructurings, bankruptcy strategy, collateral protection, or repayment / exit plans.
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. bankruptcy, restructuring, insolvency, loan enforcement, collateral realization, and lender-liability considerations.
- Ability to assess downside scenarios, identify early warning indicators, and translate risk findings into actionable credit decisions and portfolio-management steps. Ability to reassess strategy as borrower performance, collateral values, and available alternatives change.
- Ability to meet strict deadlines and periodic internal reporting requirements, including timely communication of material developments to management, forecasting trends and risk rating migration in the assigned portfolio.
- Ability to handle multiple complex relationships in various stages simultaneously.
- Working knowledge of venture debt, growth-stage lending, sponsor-supported credit structures, enterprise-value lending, recurring-revenue business models, and complex capital structures preferred.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree in economics, finance, accounting, or another business-related field required or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
- Minimum Required: 10+ years in commercial lending/commercial workout experience or collections.
- Preferred: Experience with venture-backed and sponsor-supported borrowers, and technology and life-sciences business models. Completion of formal commercial credit training.
LICENSES & CREDENTIALS
- Minimum Required: None.
SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Suite, including Word and Excel.
- Experience using loan accounting, portfolio monitoring, risk-rating, CRM, covenant tracking, and reporting systems.
COMPENSATION
- Compensation Range: Salary: USD $180,000.00/Yr. - USD $215,000.00/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 the Stifel careers benefits page. 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’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.
INTRODUCTION
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.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Special Assets Senior Portfolio Manager (“SASPM”) manages an assigned portfolio of criticized, classified, and other heightened-risk commercial credit relationships at Stifel Bank. The SASPM develops and executes workout and resolution strategies designed to protect the Bank’s interests, minimize losses, and maximize recovery for a portfolio of commercial loans, which may include venture-backed and sponsor-supported companies. The SASPM leads the evaluation of borrower financial condition, liquidity, collateral, and recovery alternatives and works closely with borrowers, sponsors, investors, relationship teams, legal counsel, and credit leadership to achieve optimal outcomes. This position is also eligible to sit in St. Louis, Boston, or San Francisco.
- Manage and maintain a portfolio of active problem loans.
- Develop and implement corrective action plans, workout strategies, amendment structures, restructuring terms, covenant packages, and recovery paths that mitigate loss, preserve optionality, and maximize recovery to the Bank.
- Lead negotiations with borrowers, sponsors, investors, and other stakeholders, and coordinate with legal counsel to execute approved amendments, forbearances, restructurings, settlements, and recovery actions.
- Prepare credit memoranda, periodic reviews, situation updates, and risk rating recommendations for assigned borrowers. Ensure accurate and timely ratings, including support for nonaccrual, charge-off, specific reserve and forecast recommendations.
- Prepare or oversee borrower financial, liquidity, cash-flow, collateral, and recovery analyses supporting recommended workout strategies and credit actions.
- Coordinate analytical and underwriting assignments on the assigned portfolio with Associates and Analysts; review their work for accuracy, completeness, and alignment with the recommended strategy.
- Engage consultants, restructuring advisors, valuation experts, bankruptcy counsel, and other external parties as needed to protect the Bank’s position and support resolution strategy.
- Prepare information and participate, as requested, in management, committee, audit, and regulatory reviews of assigned relationships.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound credit judgment, and attention to detail.
- Ability to lead difficult borrower, sponsor, investor, counsel, and advisor negotiations involving amendments, forbearance agreements, restructurings, bankruptcy strategy, collateral protection, or repayment / exit plans.
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. bankruptcy, restructuring, insolvency, loan enforcement, collateral realization, and lender-liability considerations.
- Ability to assess downside scenarios, identify early warning indicators, and translate risk findings into actionable credit decisions and portfolio-management steps. Ability to reassess strategy as borrower performance, collateral values, and available alternatives change.
- Ability to meet strict deadlines and periodic internal reporting requirements, including timely communication of material developments to management, forecasting trends and risk rating migration in the assigned portfolio.
- Ability to handle multiple complex relationships in various stages simultaneously.
- Working knowledge of venture debt, growth-stage lending, sponsor-supported credit structures, enterprise-value lending, recurring-revenue business models, and complex capital structures preferred.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree in economics, finance, accounting, or another business-related field required or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
- Minimum Required: 10+ years in commercial lending/commercial workout experience or collections.
- Preferred: Experience with venture-backed and sponsor-supported borrowers, and technology and life-sciences business models. Completion of formal commercial credit training.
LICENSES & CREDENTIALS
- Minimum Required: None.
SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Suite, including Word and Excel.
- Experience using loan accounting, portfolio monitoring, risk-rating, CRM, covenant tracking, and reporting systems.
COMPENSATION
- Compensation Range: Salary: USD $180,000.00/Yr. - USD $215,000.00/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 the Stifel careers benefits page. 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’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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Portfolio Management Analyst
Target asset managers and institutional investors first
Large asset managers, pension funds, and investment banks file the most H-1B petitions for portfolio analysts. Their established legal infrastructure makes sponsorship faster and more predictable than smaller boutique firms.
Lead with your CFA progress in applications
CFA candidates and charterholders stand out to immigration attorneys reviewing H-1B eligibility. The designation signals specialized financial knowledge and strengthens the specialty occupation argument USCIS reviewers scrutinize most closely.
Align your degree field with the job description
H-1B approval requires your degree to match the role. Finance, economics, mathematics, and statistics are cleanly accepted. If your degree is in a tangential field, document relevant coursework and work history explicitly.
Ask about E-3 if you hold Australian citizenship
Australian nationals can use the E-3 visa instead of entering the H-1B lottery. E-3 has no lottery, refills annually, and is processed at consulates in weeks. Most firms that sponsor H-1B will also sponsor E-3.
Clarify sponsorship willingness before the final interview round
Many portfolio management roles attract global candidates, but not every firm has done this before. Raising sponsorship early, framed as straightforward for your profile, filters out firms without capacity before you invest significant time.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsorship-willing employers
Not every job posting discloses whether the employer sponsors visas. Migrate Mate filters for firms with active sponsorship history in portfolio management, so you spend time on applications that can actually move forward.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Portfolio Management Analyst role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes. Portfolio Management Analyst qualifies as an H-1B visa specialty occupation because the role typically requires a bachelor's degree or higher in finance, economics, mathematics, or a related field. USCIS approval rates for financial analyst roles are strong when the employer's job description clearly ties the duties to a specific degree field rather than accepting any bachelor's degree.
Which firms sponsor H-1B visas for portfolio analysts most often?
Large asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, and Fidelity, along with major investment banks and insurance companies with asset management divisions, file the highest volume of H-1B petitions for portfolio analyst roles. Boutique hedge funds and smaller RIAs sponsor less frequently because they often lack in-house immigration infrastructure, though it is not unheard of. Browse current openings on Migrate Mate to find employers with verified sponsorship history.
Does my degree need to be in finance specifically, or will other fields work?
Finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, and accounting are all well-accepted. Engineering and computer science degrees can qualify if the role involves quantitative modeling or data-intensive analysis, but you will need the job description to reflect those technical duties. A general business degree is weaker and may require supporting documentation showing relevant specialized coursework.
Can I switch to a different portfolio management firm while on H-1B?
Yes, H-1B portability allows you to start working for a new employer once they file an H-1B transfer petition, without waiting for approval, as long as your current status is valid. The new employer must file Form I-129 before your last day with the current employer to maintain continuous authorized status. Keep copies of all prior approval notices to support the transfer.
Is an O-1 visa a realistic option for a Portfolio Management Analyst?
O-1 visa is achievable but requires documented extraordinary ability, which in finance typically means published research, industry awards, a track record managing significant assets, or recognition from major financial institutions. It is more viable for senior analysts with six or more years of experience and measurable performance outcomes than for early-career candidates. An immigration attorney can assess whether your profile meets the threshold.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Portfolio Management Analyst jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.