Risk Supervision Officer

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As a Risk & Supervision Officer within Retail Supervision & Risk Management, you will help support the Branch Network by guiding supervisory practices that protect clients, strengthen field execution, and uphold Schwab's regulatory and compliance obligations. The Sales Supervision team plays a critical role in helping registered representatives and business leaders understand, execute, and continuously improve supervision programs tied to communications, recommendations, trading activity, trend reporting, and other supervisory controls.

Reporting to the RSRM Sales Supervision Director, this Risk & Supervision Officer (RSO) functions as an extension of business leadership, while functioning independently, or with minimum guidance, in supporting the firm's business objectives.  While proactively mitigating risk, the RSO identifies areas of concern and handles day-to-day issues as they arise from the field and partners with a focus on business ethics and regulatory and compliance practices.  

The Risk & Supervision Officer (RSO) helps lead a Pod of daily supervisors with varying supervisory expertise who perform delegated supervisory responsibilities and assessments such as electronic communications, product/service recommendations, trading activity, and trend reporting. The Risk & Supervision Officer will regularly engage with various levels and members of business leadership, Compliance, and Legal partners to support business projects and initiatives related to various specialty teams and their products or services.

Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to, supporting the following Supervision Program activities:

+ Work with the business and RSRM leadership on the communication, integration and implementation of supervisory initiatives.

+ Ensure business leadership is aware and involved in managing supervisory and risk management issues through regular meetings, reporting/metrics and escalations.

+ Serve as a point of escalation for employee conduct issues, policy violations and disciplinary considerations.

+ Communicate with Branch Managers, Team Managers, licensed reps and/or central delegate teams to resolve supervisory inquiries.

+ Able to measure risk and make independent decisions in an ambiguous environment.

+ Coordinate with peers, field leaders, supervisors and analyst teams to identify trends and patterns across branches, regions and/or the business line.

+ Represent RSRM and demonstrate leadership through active participation on firm projects and working groups as assigned. Can think strategically, independently define next steps and drive/execute with limited guidance.

+ Effectively influence and gain support of other areas of the firm in delivering solutions.

+ Initiate amendments to current policies and procedures as appropriate, has a strong understanding of the firm's Risk Management infrastructure and escalates risk accordingly.

+ Build a high performance/high productivity work environment, prioritizes tasks and produces a strong work product.

+ Assume a strong professional presence, is self-aware and highly engaged.

+ Able to maintain an overall vision of assigned projects and communicate the status to all levels of senior leadership.

+ Provide coaching and guidance to the field and business partners on policies and procedures in a way that promotes risk awareness and a strong culture of compliance.

+ Works under pressure on multiple tasks concurrently and meets deadlines in a fast-paced work environment with frequent interruptions and changing priorities.

This role requires strong regulatory judgment, practical problem-solving, and the ability to influence across teams without direct authority. You will help lead and support a pod of daily supervisors with varying areas of expertise, providing…