Compliance Counsel l

Overview

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

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 23-Jan-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

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.

In this role, you will partner with numerous internal business areas throughout the firm to support the continued growth of Edward Jones and our commitment to helping serious, long-term investors achieve their financial goals. Your primary responsibilities will include a focus on maintaining, and continually evolving, our advisory compliance program with over $850 Billion in assets. You will need to demonstrate a growth and adaptability mindset, requiring strong collaboration and the ability to foster meaningful and deep relationships across the organization.

You will also be responsible for prioritizing numerous complex efforts simultaneously, while creating innovative approaches to successfully achieve optimal solutions for our clients, regulators, and stakeholders.

• Under general supervision, uses seasoned judgment to provide advice and guidance on strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders across the firm regarding a wide range of compliance, regulatory, legal, and business matters to ensure the firm meets its obligations to clients and regulators.
• Uses sound professional judgement to design, oversee, and enhance the firm s compliance programs that prevent, detect, and promptly address compliance matters.
• Effectively partners with stakeholders in investigating and resolving complex and ambiguous compliance, regulatory, legal, and business issues.
• Partners with business areas and service providers to ensure compliance with federal and state securities laws and regulations and internal policies and procedures, and communicates effectively with other compliance professionals, attorneys, associates, and leaders.
• Interpret laws, rules and regulations affecting the operation of the organization and develop specialized depth and breadth of expertise involving the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and related regulations.
• Oversee and provide guidance to various departments on: (a) compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, including laws, rules and regulations; and, (b) the design, implementation and operation of the compliance program.
• Coordinate and conduct assessments of policies, procedures, and controls.
• Assist in the preparation of regulatory acknowledgements, disclosures, filings, responses, marketing, education, and training materials, for example Form ADV Parts 1A, 2A, 2B, and 3, the Annual and Semi-Annual Regulatory Mailers, and other materials as needed.
• Conduct due diligence of the firms third party service providers, such as subadvisers to our UMA program
• Conduct periodic regulatory reviews of the firm s advisory business.

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…