Business Systems Analyst II

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 14,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team’s ability to build deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. Edward Jones currently has more branch offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.

Job-Overview

US Remote Eligible

Responsibility Summary

• Liaison between IS and other divisional stakeholders to maintain, enhance or integrate firm systems and data by proactively identifying cross divisional technology opportunities or serving on a formal project team in support of new systems and data.
• Supports one or more highly complex business processes and serve as a functional leader.
• Create, maintain and occasionally review business process models, data flows, prototypes, business requirements, use cases and test cases.
• Create and execute multiple project plans at the same time of moderate to high complexity.
• Execute and present written and verbal business systems impact analysis resulting in identification of new systems and data with moderate impact.
• Generate communication, process and educational plans to mitigate the disruption of change.
• Understanding of cross divisional systems and impacts of change.
• Responsible for business systems case development and presentation for new systems and data.
• Mentors less experienced members of the team

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

Skills-Requirements

Qualifications Required in the Job:

• Bachelor’s degree is required with emphasis in Computer Science or MIS strongly preferred (or relevant work experience).
• Advanced knowledge of standard Business System Analyst principles and practices.
• 2-5 years experience designing and implementing functional systems and data in a structured process.
• 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.
• The ability to multi-task and work with leader to prioritize assigned tasks / projects.
• Strong relationship management, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills to investigate, resolve and escalate problems. Identifies need for technical assistance to help in problem resolution.
• Associate must have the ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate with cross divisional leaders 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 knowledge of Microsoft Office tools to provide working system prototypes and scenario modeling.
• Understanding of evolving firm reporting technology platforms such as Tableau or other BI Tools is preferred
• Financial Industry knowledge is preferred
• Ability to create project plans or execute pre-existing plans.

Awards-Accolades

• FORTUNE 2020 – Edward Jones was named No. 7 on the 2020 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list.
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• Edward Jones Ranked No. 6 of the 100 best workplaces for millennials by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE Magazine.
• 2020 Corporate Equality Index – Edward Jones joins the ranks of 680 major U.S businesses that received top marks in the HRC Foundations 18th Annual Scorecard on LBGTQ Workplace Equality
• Edward Jones named a top company for training, ranking No. 25 on Training magazine’s 2020 Training Top 125 list – the highest ranking among the financial-services industry!
• Financial services firm Edward Jones has been named one of the 2019 Best Workplaces for Parents by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE magazine. The firm ranked No. 5 on the list of 50 companies, up two spots from last year.
• The Best Workplaces for Parents list is one of a series of rankings by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE based on employee feedback from Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations. Edward Jones ranked No. 7 on the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work for in 2019 list, the firm’s 20th appearance on the list. The firm also was ranked the No. 1 Best Workplace in Financial Services & Insurance and the No. 6 Best Workplace for Millennials by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE.

EEO

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