Senior Data Analytics Analyst, Firm Analytics

Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Saint Louis
Posted on: May 16, 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 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.US Remote Eligible

Firm Analytics partners with business areas to provide analytical and financial insights for firm decision making and strategic planning. We use advanced data manipulation techniques, data visualization and statistical analysis to provide actionable insights to the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and execute measures, KPIs and descriptive analytic analysis by leveraging business acumen and analytic acumen.
• Design and develop technical and functional prototype to uncover business questions, validate use cases and capture key requirements.
• Query, manipulate and validate data across multiple domains using database technologies and querying languages (SQL, Snowflake etc)
• Analyze the effectiveness of programs, perform calculations, summarize, and present insights to enhance future efforts using appropriate descriptive statistical methods.
• Conduct meaningful descriptive data analysis to inform business decisions. Primarily by performing root cause, exploratory, sensitivity and scenario analysis, hypothesis testing, economic modeling, and data visualization to identify patterns/trends/insights etc. on ambiguous business problems.
• Create data visualizations that simplify complex information in a robust, accurate, and appealing visual story that engages end users and drives them to action.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams responsible for implementing projects in support of divisional and firm-wide business objectives; occasionally lead cross-functional teams responsible for divisional objectives while following an analytics development lifecycle.
• Communicate across a wide range of audiences with specialized subject matter expertise including finance, compliance, marketing, products, branch development, and technology.
• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging data & analytics to drive business outcomes.
• Proactively recommend improvement to processes and controls related to area responsibilities while quantifying the impact of changes for leaders.
• Maintain a good understanding of business objectives, key business drivers/strategies/priorities, to inform an analytic approach to address business questions.
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking - Required.
  • 5+ years of experience in data analytics - Required.
  • Undergraduate degree - Required. Mathematics, Sciences, Engineering, Finance, and Information systems preferred. Advanced degree is a plus.
  • Ability to extract and analyze large amounts of data using at least one data manipulation language - Required. (SQL Preferred)
  • Ability to prioritize and execute on multiple tasks as well as adjust to changing priorities with minimal leader oversight - Required.
  • Strong analysis skills, primarily investigating and explaining trends and variances using statistical techniques - Required.
  • Works effectively in both an independent or team environment - Required
  • Ability to effectively communicate with associates and leadership in cross-functional settings using verbal, written and presentation skills - Required.
  • Technical proficiency in the following: SQL, Oracle Database, Tableau- Preferred.
  • Data manipulation languages such as Snowflake, Hive, Pig, XML a plus.
  • Visualization tools such as Power BI, Qlikview, or Birst a plus.
  • Statistical tools such as SAS, SPSS, R, Python, or Dataiku, a plus.
    • 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.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: $90628 - $154313
          Category: Headquarters

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