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Collaboration. Autonomy. Opportunity. Words our headquarters associates use when talking about working at Edward Jones. Words that describe what it's like being part of a firm where everyone is aligned toward a singular focus: serving the client. And everyone is working to make the firm better together - as they grow as individuals. If these words resonate with you, we should talk.

Job Overview

Position Schedule: Full-Time

Team Overview

Our Legal Division is expanding to enhance solutions for millions of clients and their families. We are looking for an experienced attorney to partner with business leaders across the firm to provide strategic legal advice and guidance in support of the firm's multi-disciplinary transformational efforts and Product Management function that deliver financial products, solutions, and services to the firm's clients and branch teams.

What You Will Do

This position includes working with business leaders to develop solutions that serve our clients' best interests and deliver an exceptional experience for our branch teams, clients, and the firm. This opportunity will afford the successful candidate the opportunity to be a part of a culture that inspires the individual and supports him or her. The associate will be responsible for:

• Providing strategic legal leadership to the U.S. business segment's multi-disciplinary, transformational efforts and Product Management function to ensure solutions are delivered in a way that provides an ideal experience for clients, branch teams, and colleagues, while meeting legal and regulatory obligations and mitigating risk.
• Understanding and interpreting laws, rules and regulations affecting the Firm's business.
• Proactively spotting legal, regulatory, and business risks, and coordinating with subject matter experts to ensure business leaders understand those risks while meeting business objectives.
• Navigating complex issues and partnering with peers and leaders within and outside the Legal Division to connect dot across initiatives, advise on impacts to the Firm and develop best practices for executing on the Firm's plan.
• Effectively communicating and sharing information across the Firm and Legal Division.
• Managing a workload that is large, diverse, and complex.

The individual selected for this role will enjoy the benefit of working for a well-established 100-year-old Fortune 500 firm and will have the opportunity to be a key influencer within the Firm by using their deep understanding of financial products, solutions, and services.

Benefits

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:

Hiring Minimum: $136571

Hiring Maximum: $232541

Skills/Requirements

Experience You Need:

• Juris Doctorate with exceptional academic credentials
• License to practice law in Missouri or an equivalent state
• Minimum of five (5) years of progressive responsibility as an attorney in private practice, in the public sector (including with a regulator) or in an in-house counsel capacity
• Technological aptitude and ability to learn new technologies

What Could Set You Apart

• Securities industry experience or experience in a highly regulated industry preferred
• Experience providing legal support to high-risk, complex business projects is preferred
• Candidates that live within in 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.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to Partner: Ability to successfully coordinate with associates across the Firm and Legal Division in a collaborative manner to deliver results and move important work through the Firm.
• Legal Knowledge and Integrity: Strong legal practice. Exceptional legal knowledge, judgment, work ethic and integrity, and a demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality. Familiarity with financial products, solutions and services and applicable laws and regulations. Commitment to a high level of ethics and professionalism.
• Strategic Planning and Execution: Ability to provide strategic thought leadership, support, and advice to the Firm and its affiliates on a wide range of matters pertaining to financial products, solutions, and services.
• Critical Thinking and Analytical Skills: Ability to develop and implement solutions to eliminate, manage and mitigate risk to the Firm. Ability to analyze and resolve complex legal matters and recommend changes to organizational policies and procedures.
• Prioritization and Decision-Making. Sound judgment, decision making, and conflict resolution skills. Creative thinker who is highly organized and has exceptional prioritization skills.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication (oral and written), presentation and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to convey complex issues to legal and non-legal professionals, including senior leaders, at all levels.
• Interact with Outside Counsel: Ability to interact with sophisticated outside counsel to identify, evaluate and resolve complex legal questions and issues.

Awards & Accolades

At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.

Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones

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About Us

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.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.

1Fortune 500, published June 2023, data as of December 2022. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

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.