Digital Product Analyst - Finance/Accounting/FP&A Systems
Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Higginsville
Posted on: May 15, 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.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.
Skills Required:
- 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 across General Ledger, Expense Reporting,
Financial Planning and Analysis or general accounting. Experience
with Peoplesoft Financials.
- 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.
Education/Certification:
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, management
information systems, computer science, or related field.Minimum 4+
years of experience within agile/digital product management
Functional Knowledge:
Strong knowledge of financial
services concepts, practices, and procedures, with emphasis on
corporate accounting systems and functional processes.Exceptional
communication and interpersonal skills.Detail orientation with
strong analytical capabilities.Ability to overcome ambiguity and
deliver results.Strong leadership skills with the ability to
influence and direct work in a way that maximizes both personal and
team efficiency.Teamwork / collaboration mindset with the ability
to work with stakeholders throughout the organization and drive
toward a decision.A robust understanding of full-cycle software
development within an Agile framework.Product orientation with a
strong sense of ownership.
- 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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services of, Edward Jones Investments.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.
From The Human Rights Campaign. All
Rights Reserved2021 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.competitive
Salary: $66379 - $109459
Category: Headquarters
Keywords: EDWARD JONES, Independence , Digital Product Analyst - Finance/Accounting/FP&A Systems, Accounting, Auditing , Higginsville, Missouri
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