Senior Risk Manager, Change and Integration

Opportunity Overview

Team Overview:
Edward Jones is seeking a skilled financial services professional to serve as an associate product manager for Alternative Investments (Alts) within the Wealth Management Advice and Solutions (WMAS) team. This individual will collaborate with team members to support the development and execution of the firm's Alts product strategy to ensure branch teams have quality product and support needed to help clients achieve their financial goals.

What You'll Do:

• Support the development and management of innovative Alts products and solutions that align with firm advice and guidance in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
• Responsible for supporting Alts onboarding and ongoing duties in order to manage and maintain the portfolio of products, including influencing recommendations to add / remove / change products or product partners as needed
• Help shape and execute business plans that align with firm strategic direction
• Ensure that product literature is maintained and wholesaling support is effective, aligned with key firm messages and compliant
• Resolve moderately complex / broad product partner issues as escalated
• Interface with product partner peer contacts
• Serve as a subject matter expert for Alts product partner solutions for the firm. Includes foundational knowledge of product partner products features, benefits, pricing, and their relative positioning in the marketplace.
• Internally, this position will known as Senior Risk and Control Associate

Position Schedule

Full-Time

EEO Statement

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.

Company Description

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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¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

Position Requirements

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of risk management and/or change management experience
• Experience leading and managing multiple initiatives/projects/large efforts
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills including the ability to independently identify, prioritize, monitor, communicate, and/or resolve issues, including root cause analysis
• FINRA Series 7 license or acquire within 12 months of hiring.

What Could Set You Apart:

• Prior experience as part of an ERM or first line of defense risk team, with experience handling multiple ERM initiatives
• Prior experience focused on change and communication initiatives

Salary Information

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.