Senior Compliance Counsel

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 08‑Sep‑2026. 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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In this role, you will operate with a high degree of independence and partner with numerous internal business areas throughout the firm to support the continued growth of Edward Jones’s investment advisory business and our commitment to helping serious, long‑term investors achieve their financial goals. Your primary responsibilities will focus on maintaining and continually evolving our compliance program for a suite of discretionary and client‑directed fee‐based advisory offerings currently comprised of over 5 million accounts totaling more than $1 trillion in assets.

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. Additionally, you need a growth and adaptability mindset, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to foster meaningful and deep relationships across the organization. As a Compliance Counsel, you will need to demonstrate leadership behaviors and achieve results through others.

• With significant autonomy, use seasoned judgment to provide advice and guidance on prominent and complex strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders, including senior executives, regarding a wide range of compliance, regulatory, and business matters to ensure the firm meets its obligations to clients and regulators.
• Assist in the design, oversight, and enhancement of the firm's investment advisory compliance program to prevent, detect, and promptly address compliance matters that are materially impactful to the firm and its affiliates.
• Effectively partner and communicate with leaders and senior executives in investigating and resolving complex and ambiguous compliance, regulatory, and other issues involving the firm's investment advisory business.
• Partner with business areas and service providers to ensure compliance with federal and state securities laws and regulations and internal policies and procedures relevant to the firm's investment advisory business.
• Communicate effectively with other compliance professionals, attorneys, associates and leaders.
• Demonstrate significant knowledge of laws, rules, and regulations impacting investment advisory offerings, including, but not limited to, the Investment Advisers Act.
• Oversee and provide guidance to leadership of various departments on: (a) compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, including laws, rules, and regulations; and, (b) the design, implementation and operation of the firm's investment advisory compliance program.
• Lead…