Business Resilience Manager - Crisis Management at Edward D. Jones in St. Louis, Missouri

Job Description:

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued.  Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 8 million clients and 19,000 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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The Business Resilience Risk Manager will join the Business Resilience department as it grows, scales, and matures the firm's Business Resilience Program. The Risk Manager will assist in creating capabilities within Business Resilience to better understand and manage the firm's Crisis Management, Business Continuity, Third Party Resilience, and Cyber Resilience risks. This includes the ongoing design, management and execution of the Crisis Management framework: identifying, measuring, responding to, managing, and reporting on the risks to the firm's resilience, such as operational, third party, cyber resilience, and other risk types.

Business Resilience Risk Manager is responsible for:

• Supporting Business Resilience Programs with a focus on overall program governance and execution.


• Contributing to the establishment, maintenance and execution of the Crisis Management framework.


• Contributing to the establishment, maintenance, and embedding of the Business Resilience Framework, policies, and programs.
  
  
  
  • Engaging with stakeholders in developing Business Resilience standards, guidelines, governance and reporting processes.
  
  
  • Documenting control requirements and mapping to industry frameworks
  
  
  
  


• Understanding Business Resilience and Third Party regulatory requirements that are applied to the Financial Services Industry to ensure alignment with crisis management and incident response practices.


• Clearly communicating highly complex models and business concepts to all levels of the firm, including Sr. Leadership, in both written and oral form, in order to effectively influence critical decisions or actions.


• Proactively working to impact current and future business results and decisions.

Education/Certification

• Bachelors Degree in a business or technology related field, or equivalent experience

Years of Relevant Experience

• Minimum of 4 years' experience in Risk Management, Crisis Management, Business Continuity Planning, Technology, Third Party Risk, or related work experience


• Experience with the Financial Services Industry is preferred

Functional Skills

• Demonstrated ability to apply risk management principles to business and technology processes


• Demonstrated participation in cross-functional teams


• Knowledge of key program components across Resilience workstreams, including Crisis Management, Scenario Development / Testing, Governance, Education & Awareness


• Experience with enterprise risk and operational risk management best-practices and controls


• Demonstrated ability to analyze, comprehend, and leverage complex risk and operational data

Please note: Candidates that live within 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.

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