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.
The Digital Product Analyst will:
Work in partnership with the product owner to understand the needs of business strategy leaders and internal users, providing insight relevant to decision making with the development team to maintain, enhance or integrate firm systems and data.
Enable one or more highly complex business processes, striving to continuously improve these processes in benefit of the system user.
As a member of the product team working cross-functionally, create and refine user stories and develop test strategies/test scripts from acceptance criteria to enable successful sprint execution.
Contribute to formal change management efforts to prepare customers and stakeholders for change. The product analyst may lead the internal change efforts for small initiatives or work collaboratively with formal project leaders for larger, more complex, changes.
Understand technical strategy and system integrations, communicating risk to business processes and cross-functional impact of change as part of product or portfolio planning and execution.
Understand cross-product business dependencies to inform product or portfolio planning.
Take a team-first approach to continue to mature the cross-functional capabilities of the team through training/mentoring.
Bachelor’s degree is required with emphasis in Finance/Accounting or STEM related field (or relevant work experience)
Strong knowledge of accounting/finance concepts, practices, and procedures, with emphasis on Expense Management, Accounts Payable and broad Source-to-Pay business processes
Advanced knowledge of standard business system analyst principles and practices; experience with agile teams preferred
Minimum 3 years’ experience designing and implementing functional systems and data; experience with digital product analysis preferred
Ability to effectively communicate with senior leaders using verbal, written and presentations skills.
