EDWARD JONES Hiring for Sr Accountant II, Finance Job at Saint Louis, MO Full Time

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 Financial Reporting Department within Canadian Finance is responsible for the Firm’s month-end close process, management reporting, financial statements, and ensuring that there are appropriate internal controls over financial reporting for the Canadian business.

This unique position will play a key role in ensuring that appropriate internal controls are in place to support our growing business environment, through working closely with business areas and Internal Audit, as well as involvement on key firm and division projects and strategies.

This role will also have involvement in supporting month-end close processes and management reporting. This position calls for the ability to successfully develop relationships with associates within the Finance Division and across the organization, and then leverage those relationships to effectively implement change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Involvement with recording, controlling, analyzing, and reporting the firm’s results of operations and/or financial condition. This will include the communication of financial information to all levels of the organization.
• Month-end financial close, including reconciliation and analysis of general ledger accounts, documenting performance of internal controls, and assisting with the year-end audit process
• Build, maintain, and leverage relationships to gather critical information and influence key decisions. This involves communication and coordination both within and outside the organization.
• Analyze, document, and monitor financial processes and controls related to the firm’s business cycles.
• Proactively identify efficiencies and control improvements, propose solutions to key stakeholders, and drive implementation of solutions.
• Demonstrate the ability to understand financial concepts and analyze financial data. Inform and educate other business areas as to the financial impacts of potential business decisions they are responsible for making.
• Associate may participate in and/or lead cross functional teams responsible for implementing finance business objectives

• Education/Experience
  • A Bachelor’s degree is required, with emphasis in Accounting or Finance strongly preferred.
  • CPA or advanced degree preferred.
  • 4+ years of relevant experience is required.
  • Financial services or brokerage industry experience preferred.
• Functional Skills
  • Ability to prioritize multiple tasks/projects, while also completing regular responsibilities, working effectively independently and in a team environment
  • Ability to make decisions; communicates and appropriately defends beliefs and opinions, summarizing complex concepts and clearly communicate to firm leadership
  • Solid understanding of accounting principles, including financial statements
  • Strong analytical skills to aid in the development of business insights and inform business decisions
  • Proactively research issues, analyze business processes and develop more efficient and effective procedures
  • Ability to adapt to change, think strategically and deliver results
• Communication Skills
  • Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills. Must be able to effectively communicate with internal and external parties including associates, leaders, and business partners
  • Displays confidence in one’s ability to make decisions; communicates and appropriately defends beliefs and opinions
  • Ability to summarize complex concepts and clearly communicate to firm leadership
• Technical Skills
  • Intermediate/advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office is required.
  • Understanding of PeopleSoft Financials is a plus.
• Problem Solving
  • Ability to anticipate, analyze, and recommend solutions to divisional and firm-wide leadership for a broad spectrum of business improvement opportunities in a clear and concise manner
  • Ability to solve problems under tight time frames, demanding workloads, or conflicting demands
• Decision Making
  • Take constructive action with general direction from others, while leader reviews complex and high-impact outputs
  • Decisions made based on financial information and recommendations provided through this role generally have a moderate to high impact on firm performance and strategy
• Span of Influence
  • Work with leaders throughout the firm, providing financial or process guidance to directly influence strategic business decisions
  • To successfully influence decision making, this position requires a broad understanding of the inter-connectivity and dependencies of the departments/divisions with one another and ability to clearly articulate how they impact Firm operations and initiatives

• 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: