Senior Risk & Control Associate

Edward Jones•Tempe, AZ

34d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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. View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report. ¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating. Team Overview: The Wealth Management and Field Management 1st Line Risk Team works together to identify, assess, management and elevate risks associated with the WMFM Organization. The WMFM 1LOD Risk Team works to implement and operationalize the Enterprise Risk Management Framework. The WMFM 1LOD Risk Team drives alignment to the standards, provides transparency and visibility related to the risks in the WMFM profile and helps to design and monitoring risk mitigation plans that help the functional area manage risks. What You'll Do: This role serves a key function in ensuring transparent, accurate and timely reporting of risks, risk mitigation and other risk profile elements. This role is responsible for proactively identifying impactful opportunities where analytics and business intelligence visualizations can inform the business and provide actionable insights to support business decisions and long-term strategy development. Responsible for the execution of divisional risk analytics and risk reporting. This role involves developing and delivering comprehensive risk reports and insightful analytics to support decision-making and risk management processes. Requires exceptional analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to communicate findings effective to senior management and other stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
5+ years of risk management experience
Experience in financial services, specifically wealth management, asset management, investment advisory, financial planning, and/or high net worth client services
Experience with Microsoft Office and GRC tools, Power BI or other data visualization tools, and databases.
Experience the identification, development and monitoring / reporting of risk measures such as Key Risk Indicators (KRI) and risk appetite measures, as well as Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
Demonstrated ability to influence, build consensus, and foster collaboration throughout the decision-making process, between stakeholders that are often across multiple divisions and locations.
Must have strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making and collaboration skills with ability to strategically plan & execute on assigned projects.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or industry designation preferred
Previous experience with investment advisory preferred
FINRA Series 7 license or acquire within 12 months of hiring
Prior experience as part of a dedicated first line of defense risk management function, including leading risk assessments

Responsibilities

Build and maintain an understanding of data flows, sources, and data transformations across multiple domains
Analyze data to identify trends, underlying issues and/or meaningful insights, and generate digestible reporting (dashboard, reports, or other risk data visualization tools) that divisional leadership can use to enable informed risk decision-making
Define business and data requirements for reporting
Engage and consult in the division's implementation and use of the firm's GRC Tool
Lead the development and monitoring of KPIs and benchmarks, including the ability to communicate results to senior leaders
Serve as a technical and functional data subject matter expert
Build and maintain a strong knowledge of data sets available. Extract, cleanse and transform data to support analysis needs. Proactively identify and resolve data quality issues
Act as resource to the team and assists divisional team members with reporting needs
Stays informed on risk industry and educational/development opportunities
Ensures that risk reporting adheres to Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) reporting standards
Lead the development and monitoring of Risk Metrics (KRIs, risk appetite measures), KPIs and benchmarks, including the ability to communicate results to senior leaders

Benefits

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 year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism.
Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing.
All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program.
For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.

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