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Vanguard
Malvern, PA; Charlotte, NC
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The Workplace Solutions mission is simple and bold: deliver investment success to millions of workers participating in employer‑sponsored retirement plans. We do this by designing smart, tailored plans for sponsors and delivering high‑quality participant experiences.
Vanguard’s 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 environment—anchored in ERISA and aligned with IRS and DOL requirements—we’re seeking a Senior Divisional Risk Advisor to shape and elevate our risk strategy.
In this role, you’ll 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.
You will be a trusted risk advisor—designing and leading the Workplace Solutions risk program, providing credible and effective challenge, fostering a risk‑smart, forward-looking culture. Leveraging Vanguard’s operational and strategic risk frameworks, you’ll 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 ERISA‑centric 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 risk‑informed decision making across the division.
Cultivate a risk‑smart 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.
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're 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.
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