Wealth Risk Advisor & Controls Partner

Vanguard; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Risk Advisor within the Personal Wealth Division to partner with advisory and wealth management teams on practical, forward-looking risk management. This role collaborates with Compliance, Risk, and Internal Audit to strengthen risk visibility, enhance control effectiveness, and support sound decision-making.

The position entails identifying and assessing risks across advisory products, client interactions, and business processes, partnering to develop risk mitigation

Qualifications

• Translate data and analysis into meaningful risk insights.
• Experience supporting risk assessments, issue management, governance, or control evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess risks across advisory products, client interactions, and business processes.
• Partner with business leaders to develop practical, business-aligned risk mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate and enhance control design and effectiveness to improve risk outcomes.
• Perform root cause analysis and support remediation of risk events and control gaps.
• Leverage data and risk metrics to identify trends and inform decision-making.
• Support key risk management practices including risk assessments, issue management, and governance routines.
• Partner with the business to evaluate risk in new initiatives and process changes.
• Act as a liaison across business, Compliance, Risk, and Audit to drive aligned solutions.

Skills

Data-to-insights

Risk-process-improvement

Stakeholder-influence

Ambiguity-tolerance

Communication-analytical-skills

Education

Undergraduate degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Vanguard is seeking a Risk Advisor within the Personal Wealth Division to partner with advisory and wealth management teams on practical, forward-looking risk management. This role collaborates with Compliance, Risk, and Internal Audit to strengthen risk visibility, enhance control effectiveness, and support sound decision-making.

The position entails identifying and assessing risks across advisory products, client interactions, and business processes, partnering to develop risk mitigation