Senior Risk & Control Associate

Job Overview

Position

Schedule:

Full‑Time.

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 03-Feb-2026, and may close early due to volume of applicants.

The Wealth Management and Field Management 1st Line Risk Team works together to identify, assess, manage and elevate risks associated with the WMFM Organization. The WMFM 1

LOD Risk Team implements and operationalizes the Enterprise Risk Management Framework, drives alignment to standards, provides transparency and visibility related to risks in the WMFM profile, and helps design and monitor risk mitigation plans that enable the functional area to manage risks.

This role serves a key function in ensuring transparent, accurate and timely reporting of risks, risk mitigation and other risk profile elements. The 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. It requires exceptional analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to communicate findings effectively to senior management and other stakeholders.

• Build and maintain an understanding of data flows, sources, and data transformations across multiple domains.
• Analyze data to identify trends, underlying issues and meaningful insights, and generate digestible reporting (dashboards, reports, or other risk data visualizations) for divisional leadership.
• Define business and data requirements for reporting.
• Engage and consult on the division's implementation and use of the firm’s GRC Tool.
• Lead the development and monitoring of KPIs and benchmarks, and communicate results to senior leaders.
• Serve as a technical and functional data subject‑matter expert.
• Build and maintain strong knowledge of available data sets; extract, cleanse and transform data to support analysis needs; proactively identify and resolve data quality issues.
• Act as a resource to the team and assist divisional team members with reporting needs.
• Stay informed on risk industry and educational/development opportunities.
• Ensure 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, communicating results to senior leaders.

Edward Jones’ compensation and benefits package includes medical, 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 401(k) retirement plan, health savings account, and flexible spending account.

The firm observes ten paid holidays and provides fifteen days of vacation for new associates starting 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, visit the benefits page.

Hiring Minimum: $101,700

Hiring Maximum: $173,200

• 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 in identification, development and monitoring/reporting of risk measures such as Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), risk appetite measures, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Demonstrated ability to influence, build consensus, and foster collaboration throughout the decision‑making process across stakeholders in multiple divisions and locations.
• Must have strong critical thinking, problem‑solving, and decision‑making and collaboration skills, with ability to…