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 OverviewPosition Schedule: Full-TimeThe Legal Division at Edward Jones is looking to add a Senior Legal Production and Analytics Consultant to its Data Analytics & Legal Forensics team, designed to support the firm's initiatives to enhance analytic capabilities and data-driven insights. The Legal Production and Analytics Consultant will play an integral role in partnering with senior leaders in the litigation and regulatory teams to respond to a broad array of complex data and information requirements. By applying legal, data governance, and analytics expertise, this team member will contribute significant thought leadership and enhancements to the firm's legal insights, strategy, and processes. Specifically, the Legal Production and Analytics Consultant will support response to complex information requests and inquiries from external parties, as well as design and lead execution of processes that enable more efficient response to fulfill legal data and analytics requirements. The Legal Production and Analytics Consultant will partner with associates in the Legal and Technology Divisions to build relationships and align strategies that ensure data and information needs are identified and addressed in a through, timely, and consistent manner. Legal colleagues and business partners will also rely on the Legal Production and Analytics Consultant to provide thought leadership on technical issues, make recommendations and be part of the solution to identified issues.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 technology issues, and an ability to influence firm leaders.Key Responsibilities:
Under general supervision, the associate will be responsible for:
Responding to and managing responses to complex information requirements for litigation matters and regulatory inquires, in partnership with senior leaders across the firm
Partnering with leaders enterprise-wide responsible for responding to regulatory inquires to enhance processes and ensure clear, consistently and timely delivery of information
Developing and conveying key information-based positions on legal matters in partnership with litigation and regulatory attorneys
Leading and supervising preparation of vast information sets to identify to assess potential risks to the firm, including estimating potential damages or exposure
Providing data-driven strategic advice to inform advocacy points, data production approaches, choices of and support of testifying experts
Developing strategic and tactical support for solutions to address technical challenges in gathering, producing and analyzing data
Identifying opportunities to enhance legal data production processes, systems, and tools while ensuring there are sufficient controls and security in place
Analyzing and identifying opportunities to address technical challenges to current technologies, systems and data structures needed to fulfill various data and analytics needs within the Legal Division
Gathering, synthesizing, and prioritizing requirements to produce formal solutions requirements
Representing the firm with external business partners to ensure strategic alignment and delivery of commitments and key milestones
Providing input on legal responses and strategies by partnering with senior litigation and regulatory attorneys, legal professionals, and business leaders firm-wide
Empowering senior business leaders to make informed decisions by providing analytic support and guidance
Identifying risk and consulting with subject matter experts to ensure project objectives are met, account for possible project challenges on constraints including risks, time, resources and scope
Define clear goals for all aspects of a project and manage their proper execution
Consistent with a grade 13, as approved by Comp. Please check any needed locality adjustments.Hiring Minimum: $136571Hiring Maximum: $232541Skills/Requirements
Advanced ability to apply analytic techniques to vast amounts of enterprise-wide data to inform legal positions on complicated matters
Significant experience providing strategic thought leadership to legal, regulatory, and business leaders by developing and translating complex insights
Proven ability to recommend viable solutions to extremely complex issues in partnership with litigation and regulatory leaders
Provide matrixed leadership with internal and external partners to drive legal issues to resolutions
Demonstrated ability to strategically approach division- and enterprise-wide issues, including systemic challenges
Seasoned judgment, decision making, and conflict resolution skills, including engaging and influencing senior legal and business leaders on approaches to fulfill litigation and regulatory requirements
Creative thinker who is highly organized and has exceptional prioritization skills
Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Ability to lead and manage large, diverse, and complex workload
Demonstrated ability to convey complicated issues to legal and non-legal professionals, including senior leadership
Commitment to a high level of ethics, professionalism, and confidentiality
Extensive experience with high-risk, complex legal and business projects
Qualifications:
Highly skilled ability to use a wide variety of industry standard tools to query complicated relational databases, such as SQL, R, SAS, and Python
Strong project management experience, including through partnership with cross-functional teams
Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in Economics, Statistics, or Finance preferred
Minimum 15 years of experience consulting on economics, litigation, or finance, preferably in securities, brokerage, or financial advisory industry
Broad experience in a range of legal matters, including complex litigation and regulatory engagements
Director-level experience at an economics or litigation consulting firm
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