Strategy Analyst II, Analytics Enablement

Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Saint Charles
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 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.Position Summary:

The Analytics Enablement team drives engagement and connection within the firm's Analytics Community. The team partners with leaders and associates across the firm as part of the analytics transformation and evolution to a data-driven organization. The team focuses on providing a positive user experience with the products and services provided by the Analytics COE and Analytics Product portfolio.

This role develops the strategy for and creates the durable communication channels needed by the Analytics Community and the associated Communities of Practice. This strategy is the cornerstone for user engagement and change management for the analytics transformation at the firm and has direct impact on the 750+ practitioners within the Analytics Community. This role will design and own the platform to enable the community to come together for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and innovation opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Develop the strategy for and establish a system to provide the durable engagement and communication channels (SharePoint site, newsletters, stakeholder meetings, surveys, etc) needed to enable user engagement and change happening within the Analytics Community.
• Manage communication channels to ensure reliability, currency and availability of the content to support the change management of the Analytics Community across the firm.
• Coordinate and guide content from multiple teams and products to ensure consistency and efficiency in change management messaging.
• Proactively identify opportunities to evolve the change and communications channels so that the system continues to meet the needs of the organization and results in associates and stakeholders feeling informed, understood, secure and in control.
• Develop the strategy for and create a Knowledge Management system for the Communities of Practice within the Analytics Community.
• Develop, own and manage the analytics user experience metrics through survey(s) and other channels.
• Educate and make recommendations to business leader(s), program/project leaders and senior leaders on change management concepts and best practices to ensure the content they develop has relevance and meaning for the Analytics Community.
• Partner with the division change lead and firm change network to identify and assess risks, issues, and opportunities with impacts for stakeholders related to other change underway. Requirements:
  • 3-5 years of relevant experience, preferably in Analytics and Business Intelligence.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Communications or a relevant field required
  • Strong communication skills required - written, verbal and presentation/story-telling
  • Prosci or equivalent change management certification required within 6 months of hire
    Preference for candidates with direct experience in:
    • Creating SharePoint or similar site(s) for communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
    • User Engagement or Change management for enterprise-level implementations
      Aptitude and ability to:
      • Represent perspectives of internal and external stakeholders and at all levels in the organization. Help them understand the trade-offs between various approaches.
      • Learn rapidly, quickly adapt and achieve results in ambiguous situations where there is often no precedent.
      • Work effectively in a matrixed analytics organization. Identify and coordinate resources (people, systems, tools) not in your chain of command. Recommend priority of work execution.
      • Identify critical tasks, sequence work, identify dependencies and decisions needed to achieve an end deliverable.
        • 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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            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.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. 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: $76798 - $130764
            Category: Headquarters

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