Business Systems Analyst II

Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Jefferson City
Posted on: May 14, 2022

Job Description:

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.US Remote Eligible
Investment Management Systems digital product area is looking for a Business Systems Analyst to join our Investment Advice & Monitoring product team. IAM develops software solutions to advance, scale, and personalize the practice of Portfolio Managers, Investment Risk Managers and Securities Research Analysts in the home office to better serve the needs of branch teams and clients.
As a Business Systems Analyst on the Investment Advice & Monitoring product team, you will be joining a diverse and highly collaborative agile team. Together we develop and support tools that allow the firm's best advice and guidance to be integrated across our branch and client tools.

*Depending on experience/qualifications, this role may be filled as a Business Analyst I, II, OR III*
Responsibility Summary:

• Serve on a durable agile product team to maintain, enhance, or integrate firm systems and data.
• Proactively identify technology and process improvement opportunities.
• Support one or more highly complex business processes and serve as a functional leader.
• Liaison between product teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders to coordinate actions, understand and manage dependencies.
• Create, maintain, and occasionally review business process models, data flows, prototypes, business requirements, use cases and test cases.
• Create and execute multiple project plans of moderate to high complexity at the same time.
• Understanding of cross divisional systems and impacts of change.
• Generate communication, process, and educational plans to mitigate the disruption of change.
• Execute and present written and verbal business systems impact analysis resulting in identification of new systems and data with moderate impact.
• Responsible for business systems case development and presentation for new systems and data.
• Mentors less experienced members of the team.Skills / Requirements
  
  • Bachelor's degree is required.
  • Financial Services / FinTech Industry knowledge is strongly preferred.
  • Minimum 2+ years of experience designing and implementing functional systems and data in a structured process.
  • Experience with Gap Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Execution of Test Plans
  • Ability to research data definition, usage, and flow to gain expertise in existing systems.
  • Ability to create new business processes and data usage to promote efficiency.
  • Advanced troubleshooting skills to investigate, resolve and escalate problems. Identifies need for technical assistance to help in problem resolution.
  • Teamwork / collaboration mindset with the ability to work with stakeholders throughout the organization.
  • Ability to effectively communicate with cross divisional teams using verbal, written and presentations skills.
  • Ability to summarize moderate to highly complex business cases, system information and concepts and clearly communicate to cross divisional leadership.
  • Advanced organizational and time management skills with the ability to meet deadlines.
  • Ability to work independently and in a team environment, multi-task and work with leader to prioritize assigned tasks / projects.
    Additional desired skills:
    
    
    • Familiarity with or interest in investment research, portfolio management and investment risk oversight concepts.
    • Technical proficiency with tools to query and analyze data such as SQL Developer, Tableau, or other BI tools.
    • Understanding of agile principles and previous experience on an agile product team.
      • 2021 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For - By Great Place to Work - and FORTUNE Magazine - Edward Jones was named No. 20 on the list.
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        • 2021 Corporate Equality Index - Edward Jones joins the ranks of 767 major U.S. businesses that received top marks in the Foundation's 19th annual scorecard on LGBTQ workplace equality.
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          • 2021 Training Top 100 list - Edward Jones ranked No. 19, up six spots from last year in its 21st consecutive year on this prestigious list.
          • J.D. Power, 2021 - Edward Jones has ranked "highest in Employee Advisor Satisfaction among Financial Investment Firms" in the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.
            • Edward Jones received the highest score among employee advisors in the J.D. Power 2007,2008, 2010, 2012-2015, 2017-2021 Financial Advisor Satisfaction Studies of employee advisors' satisfaction among those who are employed by an investment services firm. Visit jdpower.com/awards for more information.Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. Visit our career site to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate:
              Salary: $66379 - $109459
              Category: Headquarters

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