Enterprise Risk Director

About Us

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 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.

About the Role

The Enterprise Risk Director will lead a critical portfolio within Edward Jones' Enterprise Risk Management framework, including Risk Identification & Assessment, Controls, Issues Management, and Incident Management. This leader will shape how the firm consistently identifies, assesses, manages, escalates, and learns from risk across the enterprise—turning framework expectations into practical, adopted, and sustainable ways of working.

The role is responsible for the development, continuous improvement, adoption, and adherence of these ERM capabilities across the firm, partnering closely with first-line risk teams, business leaders, and control functions to strengthen risk visibility, accountability, and decision-making. The Enterprise Risk Director leads a team of risk professionals and reports directly to the Head of Enterprise Risk Management.

Responsibilities

• Own and mature key components of the ERM framework across the Risk Management Lifecycle, with direct accountability for Risk Identification & Assessment, Controls, Issues Management, and Incident Management.
• Set the strategy, standards, and roadmap for these framework capabilities, ensuring they are practical, scalable, and aligned to the firm's strategic objectives, risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and industry practices.
• Drive enterprise adoption and adherence by translating framework requirements into clear expectations, tools, routines, and governance mechanisms that support consistent execution across business areas.
• Partner with first-line risk teams, business leaders, and control functions to strengthen risk identification, assessment quality, control effectiveness, issue remediation discipline, and incident learning.
• Provide enterprise-level risk insights that help leaders understand emerging themes, prioritize significant risks, address control or execution gaps, and make informed decisions.
• Modernize the framework by advancing a more data-driven, technology-powered, and continuous approach to risk identification and assessment, enabling earlier risk sensing, stronger insights, and more timely enterprise action.
• Lead ongoing framework enhancements, including methodology improvements, governance routines, reporting, training, quality assurance, and integration with GRC technology.
• Build strong relationships across the enterprise and serve as a trusted advisor on risk practices, helping teams apply the ERM framework in a way that is consistent, risk-based, and business-relevant.
• Foster a proactive, accountable, and transparent risk culture by enabling leaders and teams to surface, assess, escalate, and manage risk effectively.
• Lead and develop a team of risk professionals, setting clear priorities, building capabilities, and creating an environment where people can do meaningful, high-impact work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Risk Management, Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, Organizational Leadership, or a related discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 6+ years of experience in enterprise risk management, operational risk, controls, issue management, incident management, compliance, audit, or a related risk discipline.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, or improving risk frameworks, methodologies, standards, processes, or governance routines in a complex organization.
• Strong ability to influence through relationships, lead through ambiguity, and drive adoption across matrixed teams and stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of financial services, wealth management, or other regulated industries.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Advanced degree or professional certification such as CRMP, FRM, PRM, CPA, CIA, CISA, or related risk, audit, compliance, or control certification.
• 11+ years of experience leading enterprise-wide risk, controls, issue management, incident management, compliance, audit, or governance capabilities.
• Experience leading framework transformation, maturing risk programs, or implementing GRC-enabled processes across a large, matrixed organization.
• Ability to connect risk practices to business strategy, regulatory expectations, and executive-level decision-making.
• People leadership experience with a track record of building strong teams, developing talent, and creating clarity in periods of change.

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug coverage
• Dental and vision insurance
• Voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness insurance)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage (provided at no cost to associates)
• Basic life and basic AD&D insurance (provided at no cost to associates)
• 401k retirement plan
• Tax-advantaged accounts: Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 10 paid holidays
• 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year
• Sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism
• Eligibility for bonuses and profit sharing
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)