Location
Springfield, MA | United States
Job description
At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.
In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors. Team Overview:
Wealth Management Advice and Solutions First Line Operational Risk team is an enabling first line risk capability responsible for the execution of the Enterprise risk standards and WMAS operational risk framework across Wealth Management Advice and Solutions (WMAS). This includes risk identification, measurement, response, insights, and governance. The team is accountable for building and communicating the operational risk profile of WMAS functional capabilities through risk consultation and risk assessment. The WMAS Risk team is embedded in the business, partnering closely with senior functional leadership in WMAS.
What You Will Do: - Identify, quantify, and monitor operational risks across WMAS to enable risk-based actions and decision making by WMAS business leadership
- Provide operational risk expertise, consultation, support, and constructive challenge to complex processes
- Partnering with business areas to conduct operational risk assessments and risk and control self-assessments in accordance with the WMAS Risk Management Framework and Enterprise risk standards
- Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of policies, processes, procedures, and internal controls
- Manage incidents including root cause analysis and control remediation plans for the division in accordance with the ERM Incident Management Program
- Co-developing risk mitigation strategies and action plans with risk owners to address highest priority risks
- Cultivating front line risk ownership and accountability
- Participating in cross-divisional risk governance and accountability frameworks for business areas
- Champion a strong risk culture for the division via elevating the risk knowledge base of associates and leaders of the division and deploying risk management best practices across the division
- Identify opportunities and execute plans to mature the 4 Pillars of the WMAS risk management framework – Risk Identification, Risk Measurement, Risk Response, Risk Insights
- Participate in divisional representation to consult on, co-create, execute, and align on key ERM initiatives
- Foster relationships with other business areas, including risk subject matter experts to align and evaluate end to end operational risk
- Continue to develop and share deep knowledge and understanding of broader industry, risk management best practices and discipline and emerging risks to the financial services industry
*This position is known internally as a Senior Risk & Control Associate What Experience You Need: - Bachelor's degree required
- 5+ years risk management, internal controls, operational excellence, or comparable experience with comprehensive knowledge of risk management
- Relevant or comparable industry experience preferred, such as financial services, wealth management, asset management, investment products, etc.
- Series 7 required or attainable within 12 months of hire
- Experience in building relationships and networks, at varying levels in the organization
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to tailor communication based on the audience
- Ability to lead in an environment of significant change
*Candidates that live within in a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday. What Could Set You Apart: - Experience in operational excellence including six sigma experience
- MBA or relevant graduate degree
- Experience in investment products, including alternative investments and high net worth clients
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- Edward Jones was recognized as one of the Best Workplaces for Millennials by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine. The privately held firm ranked No. 2 overall, in its fourth appearance on the list.
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- Edward Jones has been named to the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women list by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine, ranking No. 45.
- 2022 Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, published April 2022, research by Great Place to Work®, data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
- For the 23rd time, Edward Jones has earned a spot on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® ranking by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine. Edward Jones ranked No. 35 on the prestigious 2022 list.
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- Edward Jones scored 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. The ranking designated Jones as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+Equality.
Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. 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:
Salary: $92984 - $158325
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