Product Delivery Manager - Finance Systems
Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Florissant
Posted on: January 16, 2022
Job Description:
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 14,000+ branch offices where our
more than 7 million clients live and work.
A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with
clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who
enhances the team's ability to build deep relationships with
clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide
support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver
an ideal client experience. Edward Jones currently has more branch
offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to
grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.Edward
Jones is looking for an individual to help lead technological
innovation in Finance & Compensation Systems - responsible for
supporting and enhancing existing systems and developing new
technology solutions that enable and enhance the firm's vision for
Financial Planning and Analysis. This person will have the dual
responsibilities of product delivery management over multiple
durable product delivery teams focused on Finance applications and
people leadership for the software development associates within
those teams.
What you'll do
As a Product Delivery Manager, you will lead change to implement,
configure, enhance and support Finance tools and application
modules using a combination of technologies on-premises and in the
Cloud. In this role, you will work closely with team members,
leaders, and product owners to execute product delivery as well as
continual strategy setting and evaluation of delivery team
structure in alignment with firm needs and direction.
Essential Responsibilities and Tasks:
Demonstrated ability to build strong
partnerships and relationships with internal Business partners and
adjacent Technology organizations including Quality Assurance, User
Experience, Program Mgt Office and Enterprise ArchitectureRemoving
obstacles and coordinating resources to continually increase team
throughput, predictability, and qualityReducing cycle times and
improving usability scores by driving improvement of all things
related to the SDLC for teams in their remitWorking with Tech
shared services teams to remove impediments and obstacles for
improvement of product delivery and cycle timeSetting of product
team success measures to deliver the right value to our
clientsContribution and maintenance of a product technology roadmap
and backlog and the application of architectural standards in the
team 's deliverablesDevelop and execute on-going improvements for
processes related to the team (e.g. incident management
escalations)Deep understanding of the product team 's systems,
processes, priorities, and technologies while representing these
aspects to all levels of Technology leadershipGuide teams to do
their work in a way that minimizes key-person dependencies and
knowledge silosRepresentation to ensure firm and division processes
are followed and risk is reduced by the product team (e.g.
compliance change management, information security, etc.)Ability to
hold teams accountable for setting and achieving Service Level
Objectives
In the people leadership portion of this role, this leader will be
responsible for:
Coaching and mentoring of each team
member through observation and timely feedbackIdentification of key
team positions and develop ready-now successorsDevelop and execute
on-going improvements for processes related to the team (e.g.
resource management and support processes).Establish and maintain
effective communications and relationships across teams,
departments, vendors, and other divisionsMust be able to establish
and maintain effective relationships with vendors while aligning to
the firm's objectivesQualifications Required in the job:
Bachelor 's degree with a Technology
major in Computer Science, MIS, or related work experienceMinimum
of 5 years of experience directly related to Technology with at
least 1 year in a leadership role (mentoring associates, lead
analyst, project leaders, etc.)Preferred:
Experience with Industry-leading
Financial Planning & Analysis application suitesExperience
implementing new application modules or new application
suitesKnowledge of business system interactions, infrastructure
dependencies, system controls, monitoring, etc.Understanding of
system development methodologies and processes within IS
(change management, QA, Project Life Cycle, etc.)Experience working
with all levels of Business and Technology managementExperience
implementing modern SaaS enterprise finance applications is a plus
- FORTUNE 2020 - Edward Jones was named No. 7 on the 2020 FORTUNE
100 Best Companies to Work For - list.
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- Edward Jones Ranked No. 6 of the 100 best workplaces for
millennials by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE Magazine.
- 2020 Corporate Equality Index - Edward Jones joins the ranks of
680 major U.S businesses that received top marks in the HRC
Foundations 18th Annual Scorecard on LBGTQ Workplace Equality
- Edward Jones named a top company for training, ranking No. 25
on Training magazine's 2020 Training Top 125 list - the highest
ranking among the financial-services industry!
- Financial services firm Edward Jones has been named one of the
2019 Best Workplaces for Parents by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE
magazine. The firm ranked No. 5 on the list of 50 companies, up two
spots from last year.
- The Best Workplaces for Parents list is one of a series of
rankings by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE based on employee
feedback from Great Place to Work-Certified - organizations. Edward
Jones ranked No. 7 on the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work for in
2019 list, the firm 's 20th appearance on the list. The firm also
was ranked the No. 1 Best Workplace in Financial Services &
Insurance and the No. 6 Best Workplace for Millennials by Great
Place to Work and FORTUNE. 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.$150K -
$180K
Salary: $105753 - $180067
Category: Headquarters
Keywords: EDWARD JONES, Florissant , Product Delivery Manager - Finance Systems, Executive , Florissant, Missouri
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