Associate Director – Risk Analysis, Controls & Assurance

Overview

In this role you will shape and sustain a broad enterprise risk framework for Dow Jones Energy, partnering with senior leadership to anticipate and mitigate emerging risks. You will integrate risk, controls, and assurance across editorial and non-editorial functions, data governance, AI deployment, and new product development. You help build guardrails that protect the business while enabling strategic initiatives. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role at the heart of risk enablement.

Pay / Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans
• Comprehensive Insurance Plans
• Education Benefits
• Commuter Transit Program

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain an enterprise risk analysis, controls, and assurance framework for Dow Jones Energy
• Lead risk assessments across editorial and non-editorial functions with continuous monitoring, controls testing, and gap analyses
• Define and monitor control frameworks for AI, ML tools, automated data ingestion, and risk-by-design in the NPD pipeline
• Implement controls to guard against antitrust, conflicts of interest, and regulatory non-compliance
• Collaborate with Data Governance and Tech teams to establish data provenance, IP usage, licensing, and data security controls

Key requirements

• Experience in risk management, internal controls, regulatory assurance, or operational risk in financial data, energy/commodities, or publishing
• Broad exposure to operational risk areas including data governance, AI governance, antitrust, event operations, and product development lifecycle
• Ability to map business processes, identify control gaps, and design pragmatic controls
• Executive presence and ability to communicate risk to senior leaders and cross-functional teams
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset focused on upfront risk enablement
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Law, Technology, Risk Management, or related field or equivalent experience

• Executive communication
• Proactive problem-solving
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Risk management
• Internal controls
• Regulatory assurance

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