What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trade Corrections Analyst-Operations position at Edward Jones?
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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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.
This is an opportunity to join a highly-experienced, fun, and impactful area of the firm. Trade Corrections Analysts in the area make impactful, complex, and risky decisions in gray areas, and have opportunities to engage with many stakeholders across the firm. With strong decision making, effective collaboration across the firm, and elevated impact on efforts that transform and propel the area forward, Trade Corrections Analysts have the opportunity to be promoted to Sr. Trade Corrections Analysts.
What You'll DO
- Acting in capacity as General Securities Principal with supervisory responsibility over reviewing, approving, and processing of trade cancels and rebills of equity, fixed income, and UIT securities.
- Assessment, placement of timely market cover trades, and timely rejection notifications of trade cancels and rebills involving complex systems, which requires strong technical knowledge and creates financial and/or regulatory risk if delayed or completed incorrectly. The trade error corrections include cancels, quantity, symbol, and buy to sell/sell to buy changes as well as account number, account type, commission, and as of correction requests.
- Works in collaboration with internal business areas including Advisory, Compliance, Field Supervision, Trading, and Operations while also understanding the impacts to these areas.
- Determines gain/loss amounts on cancel and rebill requests.
- Coach and educate branch teams on trade error correction requests, best practices, and complex client situations.
- Demonstrate ability to identify and analyze common and non-routine market and trading related information using a variety of resources. Utilizes clarifying questions to help identify and resolve these common and non-routine trading related issues and inconsistencies.
- Must detect and/or prevent problems with trade cancels and rebills that would negatively impact the client and cause regulatory issues for the Financial Advisor and the firm.
- Must utilize industry knowledge and judgment to make decisions daily. Associates will coordinate and organize data for internal and external audits which requires excellent attention to detail as well as the ability to explain complex processes and provide detailed documentation of their decisions.
- Most of the decisions are complex and based on knowledge of trading systems and industry knowledge. They are made independently without a higher level review of the decisions or consequence, and must always comply with regulatory rules.
What You'll Need
- Bachelor's degree in finance or related field preferred.
- Specific licenses will be required - SIE, Series 7 Top Off, Series 57, Series 24, Series 53. Testing plans and timelines will be discussed and agreed upon with area leadership.
- 3 years of industry experience required; within a role that required managing risk.
- Requires strong working knowledge of securities products and trading processes, including awareness of industry issues and hot topics.
- Advanced knowledge of products, trade reporting requirements, supervisory systems, firm policies, and industry rules and regulations.
- Must demonstrate strong conflict-management, problem solving and independent decision making skills.
- Ability to work in a dynamic fast paced environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.
