Senior Risk & Control Associate

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Job Overview

Position Schedule: Full-Time

The Senior Technology Risk Manager will assist the division in identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring the operational, strategic, financial, technical, and other risks of the division. This position will execute the risk management program, which includes performing and facilitating risk assessments, connecting the risks across reporting responsibility and assisting the divisional Technology Risk Leader in prioritizing risk mitigation efforts. This position will work in partnership with many stakeholders including Technology division leaders and risk representatives from other divisions.

Responsibilities:

• Act as an independent advisor for leaders and associates by facilitating the risk assessment process of high risk areas and technology processes to ensure the significant risks within the process are addressed, including but not limiting to ethical business practice, company policies, regulatory requirements.
• Understand how the magnitude of certain risk indicators may change as they cut across reporting responsibilities and provide specialist risk management capabilities which have a significant impact on the firm's strategy.
• Consolidates, develops, and reports process diagrams and risk assessment information across areas to allow business and senior leaders to effectively manage the firm/division's risk level.
• Advise and assist business process owners on performing root cause analysis and the development of controls to effectively mitigate the identified control gaps (control design).
• Develop and perform process, system, and project testing plans to assess system integrity and control effectiveness, including implementing tools and method of risk evaluation.
• Prepare risk documentation to assist leaders and other stakeholders in implementing controls to address identified risks on both short-term and long-term.
• Assist Technology Risk Leader in developing risk strategy to maximize the firm's benefits whilst minimizing risk exposure, developing systems to control and monitor risk, such as early warning detecting systems that alert leaders to new or evolving risks.

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.

Hiring Minimum: $96471
Hiring Maximum: $164262

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Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (business or Information Systems/Technology preferred)
• 6+ years internal audit, risk management, critical processes, compliance or internal control experience with comprehensive knowledge of process analysis and control design techniques required
• 5+ years Information Technology, Digital Operations, or IT Process, Risk, and Controls experience required
• CISA, CISM, CISSP, or CRISC is required

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Awards & Accolades

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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.

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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