Data & BI Analyst II - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Edward D. Jones in St. Louis, Missouri

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 Data & BI Analyst II, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is responsible for providing actionable insights to support business decisions related to the firm's DEI strategies, objectives and commitments. The analyst will work in collaboration with other analysts and stakeholders across the organization on the formulation of appropriate analytic approaches to solve ambiguous business problems.

Responsibility Summary:       

• Maintain a strong understanding of results & key business drivers, as well as an understanding of key business strategies & priorities, and apply business knowledge to analytic approaches to address business questions.


• Build and maintain a strong knowledge of data sets available to the analyst. Extract, cleanse and transform data to support analysis needs. Pressure test and validate logic and outputs against known sources and business acumen. Proactively identify data quality issues.


• Define business and data requirements for analytic deliverables.


• Understand and apply beginning statistical concepts.


• Provide actionable insights to support 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


• Independently generate and incorporate insights into a cohesive story that clearly addresses business questions. Effectively communicate with business partners and non-technical audiences regarding analytic ideas, approach, key takeaways, and actionable insights.


• Develop and manage business relationships with project team members and leaders across the organization. Consult with business owners to understand the business problem. 


• Document, monitor, and proactively recommend improvements to processes and controls related to areas of responsibility.


• Lead the development and monitoring of KPIs and benchmarks.  Ability to communicate results to senior leaders.

  Qualifications Required in the Job:

Bachelor's Degree required with an emphasis in business, economics, math, engineering, or analytics preferred (or relevant work experience). Advanced degree or certification preferred. 3-5 years' experience in relevant field, with at least 2 years of analytics experience.

Functional Knowledge:

Proficiency interacting with various database and file storage systems (Examples: Oracle, Hadoop, NoSQL). Understanding of join types.

Experience with data manipulation languages, such as SQL, required

Leadership:

Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment. Independently organize, plan & prioritize individual effort needed to ensure overall success of cross-functional projects. Occasionally lead cross-functional teams responsible for divisional objectives or assist with the onboarding of other data analysts.

Problem Solving:

Ability to identify the question(s), what data is needed, analyze and interpret the results to recommend solutions to senior & executive leaders for a broad spectrum of business improvement opportunities in a clear and concise manner. Execute on projects of a moderate complexity which involve cross-functional teams, collaborate well with associates and leadership throughout the firm

Impact:

Develops and performs moderately complex analysis, typically with moderate to significant business impact.  Works with leaders throughout the firm, providing analytical guidance to directly influence business decisions.  While there are no direct supervisory responsibilities, coordinating with others to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines will be required, and may be asked to occasionally mentor and train other associates on the team.  Influence decision making by gaining a deep understanding of interdepartmental strategies' impact on firm operations and initiatives.