Job Description

Recruiter
Kristy Gilmore
Opportunity Overview
The Senior HR Business Partner (Sr HRBP) is a strategic advisor and cultural champion for Edward Jones' Canadian business unit. This role consolidates HR business partnership across Wealth Management, Practice Management, and Enabling Functions, offering end-to-end strategic support to the Canadian home office functions. The Sr HRBP ensures that enterprise-wide human capital strategies are tailored to Canadian market realities, legal requirements, and operational nuances. Though an individual contributor, the role mentors HRBPs, acts as a role model, and elevates the strategic capability of the broader HRBP job family. It serves as the local HR expert and connection point, driving people decisions through data, insights, and deep business acumen.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Partnering and Business Planning

• Act as the single point of HR partnership across all Canadian divisions, providing an integrated, enterprise-wide people strategy.
• Translate Canadian business strategies and growth objectives into actionable human capital plans.
• Partner directly with the Canadian Leadership Team to anticipate workforce needs, shape talent strategies, and manage organizational risks.

Canadian Expertise and Connection

• Provide Canadian specific HR guidance on employment law and practices to ensure legal and regulatory compliance.
• Leverage knowledge of HC operations and processes and Work with HC process owners to inform and shape HC processes, including HC technology design and configuration taking into account market context.
• Partner with U.S. based HRBPs on enabling functions to ensure Canadian realities are fully incorporated into strategies, programs, and decision-making.
• Act as the bridge between Canadian leaders and enterprise HR teams, aligning on firmwide direction while advocating for the Canadian business unit.

Data, Analytics and Execution

• Leverage HR analytics, workforce data, and talent insights to influence leadership decisions and measure impact of initiatives.
• Drive execution of complex HR programs with precision and agility, ensuring timely and consistent delivery across all divisions.
• Champion innovative HR practices, including the use of digital tools and technology, to improve efficiency and colleague experience.

Talent, Leadership and Change

• Partner with leaders to identify, develop and retain top talent, with a focus on bench strength and succession readiness
• Provide coaching to senior leaders and mentorship to other HR colleagues, building consulting, problem-solving and strategic skills across the team.
• Lead organizational change and transformation efforts with empathy, transparency and rigor.

Position Type
Home Office - Canada
Position Schedule
Full-Time
Company Description
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 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.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
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External Flexible Work Option(s)
Hybrid
Awards and Accolades
At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.
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Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or professional designation (CHRP/CHRL, SHRM) an asset.
• 12+ years of progressive HR experience, including senior-level business partner responsibilities in complex, matrixed environments.
• Leadership experience strongly preferred
• Strong business acumen with excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal business partners. Demonstrated success in influencing and coaching at the senior leadership level.
• Must have thorough knowledge and demonstrated capability in all Human Capital functions and practices (e.g. organizational design and consulting, associate relations, inclusion & belonging, performance management, total rewards, HR technology, talent acquisition, associate engagement and retention, employment law, organizational development, change leadership, coaching and communications.) MUST have a comprehensive understanding of how these parts of HR integrate in providing solutions and be able to assist leaders in their implementation.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and must be able to communicate complex issues across all levels of organization and division.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into actionable human capital strategies.
• Demonstrated strength in using data and analytics to drive workforce planning, decision-making, and business outcomes.
• Strong track record of executing HR initiatives across multiple divisions with precision and agility.
• Deep knowledge of Canadian employment legislation, market practices, and cultural nuances.

Salary Information
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. 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.

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