Senior Risk & Control Associate

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 06-Jan-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

About-Us

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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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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Job-Overview

Team Overview:

The Wealth Management and Field Management 1 st 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.

Here are a few of the Key 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

Skills-Requirements

What Experience You'll Need:

• 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.

What Could Set You Apart:

• 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

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.

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.

Awards-Accolades

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EEO

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.

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 ( .