Associate General Counsel II, Banking
Full Time
St. Louis, MO
$131,635 - $224,136 a year
Posted
Job description
Want a meaningful career where you can make a difference? Edward Jones sounds perfect for you.
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
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 support with respect to the firm's banking, cash, and lending products and services while successfully executing the firm's most important initiatives. 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. The work is dynamic and requires the ability to look beyond the specific legal questions to understand the goals of the business and aid in getting to the best solution. This opportunity will afford the successful candidate the opportunity to be a part of a culture that inspires and supports the individual and allows them to be part of a team focused on delivering solutions.
Candidates should be highly motivated and knowledgeable about the industry and the firm. The position requires strong collaboration, an aptitude for continual learning, demonstration of intellectual curiosity by asking questions and connecting work across multiple initiatives, ability to identify and mitigate risks in new and evolving areas of law, and an ability to influence firm leaders.
Key Responsibilities
Legal Knowledge and Integrity: Exceptional legal knowledge, judgment, work ethic and integrity, and a demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality. Familiarity with consumer financial products and applicable laws and regulations, including Electronic Funds Transfer Act and Reg E, margin loans (Reg. T), securities-based lending (Reg. U), electronic money movement/NACHA, broker-dealer cash sweep products, and Bank Secrecy Act / Anti-Money Laundering regulations.
Strategic Planning and Execution: Provide strategic thought, legal leadership, support and advice on a wide range of matters pertaining to consumer banking, cash, and lending products and services.
Critical Thinking and Analytical Skills: Ability to develop and implement solutions to eliminate, manage, and mitigate risk. Ability to analyze and resolve complex legal matters and recommend changes to organizational policies and procedures.
Ability to Partner: Ability to successfully partner with associates across Edward Jones in a collaborative manner to deliver results and move important work through the organization.
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 at all levels, including senior leaders.
Interact with Outside Counsel: Ability to interact with outside counsel to identify, evaluate and resolve complex legal questions and issues.
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: $131635
Hiring Maximum: $224136
Skills/Requirements
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Awards & Accolades
About Us
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 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.
In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.
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.
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
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 support with respect to the firm's banking, cash, and lending products and services while successfully executing the firm's most important initiatives. 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. The work is dynamic and requires the ability to look beyond the specific legal questions to understand the goals of the business and aid in getting to the best solution. This opportunity will afford the successful candidate the opportunity to be a part of a culture that inspires and supports the individual and allows them to be part of a team focused on delivering solutions.
Candidates should be highly motivated and knowledgeable about the industry and the firm. The position requires strong collaboration, an aptitude for continual learning, demonstration of intellectual curiosity by asking questions and connecting work across multiple initiatives, ability to identify and mitigate risks in new and evolving areas of law, and an ability to influence firm leaders.
Key Responsibilities
Legal Knowledge and Integrity: Exceptional legal knowledge, judgment, work ethic and integrity, and a demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality. Familiarity with consumer financial products and applicable laws and regulations, including Electronic Funds Transfer Act and Reg E, margin loans (Reg. T), securities-based lending (Reg. U), electronic money movement/NACHA, broker-dealer cash sweep products, and Bank Secrecy Act / Anti-Money Laundering regulations.
Strategic Planning and Execution: Provide strategic thought, legal leadership, support and advice on a wide range of matters pertaining to consumer banking, cash, and lending products and services.
Critical Thinking and Analytical Skills: Ability to develop and implement solutions to eliminate, manage, and mitigate risk. Ability to analyze and resolve complex legal matters and recommend changes to organizational policies and procedures.
Ability to Partner: Ability to successfully partner with associates across Edward Jones in a collaborative manner to deliver results and move important work through the organization.
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 at all levels, including senior leaders.
Interact with Outside Counsel: Ability to interact with outside counsel to identify, evaluate and resolve complex legal questions and issues.
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: $131635
Hiring Maximum: $224136
Skills/Requirements
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Juris Doctorate with exceptional academic credentials
- Progressive professional responsibility and experience in relevant practice areas; preference for experience focused on serving as outside counsel for banks and other financial institutions or in-house counsel for a bank or broker-dealer or attorney for financial industry regulatory agency
- Experience working with state and federal financial industry regulators (SEC, FINRA, OCC,) preferred
- Technological aptitude and ability to learn new technologies
Awards & Accolades
- 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2022, published Fortune July 2022, Great Places to Work® data as of March 2022. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
- Edward Jones was recognized as one of the Best Workplaces for Millennials by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine. The privately held firm ranked No. 2 overall, in its fourth appearance on the list.
- 2022 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women, published September 2022, research by Great Places to Work®, data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
- Edward Jones has been named to the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women list by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine, ranking No. 45.
- 2022 Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, published April 2022, research by Great Place to Work®, data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
- For the 23rd time, Edward Jones has earned a spot on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® ranking by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine. Edward Jones ranked No. 35 on the prestigious 2022 list.
- 2022 Best Places to Work For LGBTQ+ Equality, Great Place to Work® in partnership with Human Rights Campaign Foundation, published Equity Magazine January 2022, data as of July 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
- Edward Jones scored 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. The ranking designated Jones as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+Equality.
About Us
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 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.
In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.
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.
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