What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Analyst I - Analytics Lab position at Edward Jones?
This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 05-Nov-2025. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 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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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.
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¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
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 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
The Data Analyst I is responsible for providing actionable insights to support business decisions. They work in collaboration with the project team to understand the problem, define the approach, assemble the data, perform the analysis and generate insights, and present actionable information back to the business.
- Provide actionable insights to support business decisions, primarily by performing root cause, exploratory, sensitivity and scenario analysis, hypothesis testing, economic modeling, regression, and data visualization to identify patterns/trends/insights etc. on predefined problems
- Merge, cleanse and transform data from multiple sources as needed for analysis.
- Understand and apply basic statistical concepts.
- Apply critical thinking to pressure test and validate logic and outputs against known sources and understanding of business.
- Generate and incorporate insights into a cohesive story that clearly addresses business questions in partnership with others. Effectively communicate tailored messages to the business partners regarding analytic ideas, approach, key takeaways and actionable insights.
- Maintain a working knowledge of firm results & key business drivers and an understanding of key strategies & priorities of business to be able to apply business knowledge to analytic approach to address business questions.
- Build and maintain a working knowledge of data flows and data sources within relational databases.
- Develop and manage business relationships and partnerships with targeted business owners and within the department.
- Consult with business owners to understand the business problem. Collaborate with others to identify the appropriate analytic approach to solve the problem.
- Document, monitor, and proactively recommend improvements to processes and controls related to areas of responsibility.
- 1 year work experience
- Bachelor's Degree required with an emphasis in finance, business, economics, statistics, data science, math or analytics preferred. Relevant work experience will be considered.
- Experience interacting with database and file storage systems (Oracle, Hadoop, Snowflake, Databricks).
- Experience with data manipulation languages and analysis language (SQL, Python, R).
- Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI or similar tool)
- Experience analyzing data and creating data driven business insights.
- Some knowledge of statistical concepts and analytic techniques, including descriptive statistics, forecasting, economic modeling, various regression techniques, exploratory analysis, and variance analysis required
INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY: Current home-based associates: While this role is posted as hybrid, if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status. Edward Jones intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work.
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.
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Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
Check out our Canadian awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
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.
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.
