Senior Divisional Risk Advisor, Workplace Solutions

Overview

The Workplace Solutions mission is simple and bold: deliver investment success to millions of workers participating in employersponsored retirement plans. We do this by designing smart tailored plans for sponsors and delivering highquality participant experiences.

Vanguards Workplace Solutions team supports defined contribution plan sponsors and participants through recordkeeping administration and trust/custody services. Operating at the heart of a complex fiduciary environmentanchored in ERISA and aligned with IRS and DOL requirementswere seeking a Senior Divisional Risk Advisor to shape and elevate our risk strategy.

In this role youll bring deep ERISA expertise to guide business decisions build trusted partnerships with senior leaders and strengthen a control environment that spans operations technology and client service.

The impact youll make

You will be a trusted risk advisordesigning and leading the Workplace Solutions risk program providing credible and effective challenge fostering a risksmart forward-looking culture. Leveraging Vanguards operational and strategic risk frameworks youll align divisional controls with enterprise standards help teams anticipate emerging risks in retirement services and ensure we deliver for sponsors and participants with confidence and care

Responsibilities

• Lead the divisional risk strategy. Set the vision and roadmap for a risk program. Design implement and continuously evolve risk capabilities ensuring stakeholders understand priorities trade-offs and emerging risk themes.
• Embed ERISAcentric fiduciary risk management. Provide authoritative guidance on ERISA fiduciary standards and obligations IRS requirements and trust/custody controls to strengthen decision-making across complex business operations and strategies.
• Strengthen controls & assurance. Establish robust risk and control oversight including adherence to standards meaningful performance metrics and executive-ready reporting. Advise on control design monitoring and assurance; direct targeted testing; identify root causes; and drive effective timely remediation.
• Advise on change & innovation. Engage early with teams advancing new services solutions and operating model changes and platform enhancements (e.g. recordkeeping enhancements CITs managed solutions). Ensure innovation is supported by thoughtful control design and proactive risk mitigation.
• Provide credible challenge & oversight. Bring an independent perspective to risk acceptance decisions; prioritize existing and emerging risks; enable riskinformed decision making across the division.
• Cultivate a risksmart culture. Build trusting relationships and serve as a thought partner to business leaders while stewarding adoption of enterprise frameworks and standards.
• Represent the division. Partner with enterprise risk legal compliance audit and external stakeholders; participate in special projects and industry forums to keep the program current.

Qualifications: What youll bring

• Experience & expertise: Minimum eight years related work experience with 5 years of experience in risk management within retirement services trust/custody or related fiduciary operations with deep command of ERISA (fiduciary duties plan operations fee disclosures) IRS rules and DOL oversight.
• Risk frameworks: Handson masterly of operational risk frameworks and control assurance (control design testing monitoring reporting). You know what good looks like and how to build it.
• Influence: Exceptional communicator and strategic thinker who shapes outcomes through strong judgement clarity of message and an ability to bring stakeholders along. You build buyin across senior leaders while navigating complexity with confidence.
• Curiosity & learning agility: A natural explorer who asks sharp questions seeks context learns fast and brings external insight into conversation. You love understanding why just as much as what.
• Connector & integrator: A savvy dot-connector who thrives at linking ideas people technology and processes across a complex organization. You spot patterns anticipate emerging risks and opportunities and help teams to make risk-smart decisions with clarity and momentum.
• Leadership: An informal leader who role-models a culture of investor zeal inclusion tenacity and integrity. You create energy build trust and invest deeply in developing the team.
• Education: Undergraduate degree required; graduate degree preferred (e.g. JD MBA MS in Risk/Finance).

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.