Senior Manager, Wealth and Product R&G Policy Team

Your Opportunity

Schwab’s Wealth Advisory, Banking & Trust (WABT) organization offers industry-leading wealth management services to both retail and registered investment advisor (RIA) clients. The team is responsible for Schwab’s wealth management strategy, while delivering industry-leading experiences, through solutions like Schwab Wealth Advisory (SWA) and Schwab Advisor Network (SAN), along with a broad range of investment products and solutions.  

Within the WABT organization, the Wealth and Product Risk & Governance (WP R&G) team is responsible for providing leadership and strategic support for governance, policy management, and regulatory initiatives to effectively manage risk as we deliver comprehensive wealth and advice services to both Retail and Advisor Services clients.

What you’ll do:

This Senior Manager role will report to the Director of the Policy & Risk Programs team in WP R&G. The Senior Manager position is a strategic role and is responsible for managing and executing on risk change management needs to enable WABT and Schwab Investment Platforms, Solutions, and Strategy (SIPSS) strategic product and offer initiatives. The ability to build and foster relationships across WABT and SIPSS, identify risks and issues that need to be addressed, execute on various risk program-related tasks, and oversee the risk change management implementation strategy will be imperative to the success of this role. The Senior Manager position will work most closely with teams within WABT, SIPSS and 2LOD partners.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide strategic input for WABT and SIPSS product and offer initiatives, balancing risk mitigation with business enablement
• Develop robust risk change management assessments and execution plans
• Execute on various risk change management activities, including, but not limited to, developing policies and procedures, and oversee risk implementation activities of partners
• Provide regular updates on status, direction, and approach of supported strategic initiatives to WP Risk & Governance leadership team and colleagues across the organization
• Develop, memorialize, and share templates and other best practice resources with colleagues to enable scale of risk change management support.
• Run point on projects as needed to evolve the policy structure and landscape in an effort to enable WABT and SIPSS' strategic vision.

What you have

What you have:

• 6+ years supervisory, risk, control, or oversight experience
• Experience writing policies, procedures, or other business procedure related documents
• Experience with providing strategic risk support to enable evolution and development of products and offers
• Ability to think conceptually and propose solutions that balance effective risk management and enable business evolution.
• Successful track record of implementing legal, compliance, and regulatory standards across offers, products, and projects     
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, time management, and organizational skills.
• Experience with providing strategic input for business initiatives and coordinating resources and execution activities across various functions
• Excellent relationship management skills (negotiating, collaborating, influencing).
• Interest in creating change through process improvements, training, and streamlining functions
• Ability to think conceptually and propose solutions that balance effective risk management and enable business evolution
• Comfort with ambiguity; ability to learn quickly and thrive in a complex, dynamic environment.
• Ability to be a self-starter and work independently.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast paced, team environment.
• Series 7 & 63 are preferred, but not required.