Senior Ops Solution Developer - Finance

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 8 million clients and 19,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

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Join the Finance Process Improvement and Automation Team to help the division better understand, improve, automate, and enable processes while also supporting our multi-year transformational journey towards a new financials system. The Senior Ops Solution Developer serves across the division as a partner for Operational Excellence (OE) and end-user tool automation.

What You'll Do

• Partner with teams across Finance to understand and document the current state of processes and influence Operational Excellence and automation.

• Determine root cause and advise teams on process efficiency, risk reduction, and/or automation recommendations, including the corresponding business benefit.

• Understand and facilitate automation requirements and design the corresponding future state process.

• Develop automation solutions using end-user tools, including Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, Automation Anywhere (RPA), Tableau, and other firm tools.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field preferred or related work experience.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in software development.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues and their implications for projects and business decisions.

• Strong project management skills

• Ability to facilitate discussion and resolution of problems, and mentor other department associates.

• Ability to define root cause, design a future state process, improve, and automate processes using end-user tool technology.

• Advanced knowledge of multiple technologies including:

• Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI) and SharePoint

• Robotics Processing Automation tools (Automation Anywhere)

• Business Intelligence and Analytics Software (Tableau)

• Programming Languages (SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Java, VBA/VBS)

• Ability to independently understand and navigate system infrastructure.

Please note: Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.

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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: