Risk Management Analyst

What You'll Do

Are you energized by solving problems, digging into data, and helping a business understand risk in smarter, more meaningful ways? Do you thrive in environments where you can help build something new-not just follow a checklist? If so, you may be the perfect fit for our Risk Management Analyst role within Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).

This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career professional eager to grow into a broader risk-management career path. You'll work alongside experienced risk leaders supporting an evolving enterprise-wide risk framework-helping to create structure, interpret data, and partner with the business to identify, assess, and understand risk.

This role blends analytical work, technology, problem solving, and collaboration with strong exposure to areas such as loss event data, third-party risk, risk assessments, business continuity, incident response, control effectiveness, root cause analysis, and more. Candidates with backgrounds in risk, compliance, audit, SOX, legal, data analytics, or related fields are highly encouraged to apply.

What You'll Do

• Engagement and support with RIS business partners and RIS Risk team.

• Issue management: consult with first-line risk partners to identify material issues impacting operational processes, services, and products, challenge the root cause and remediation actions, enter and track issue details, monitor to completion

• Risk analysis and assessment: Consult with first-line partners or in partnership with the Enterprise Risk Assessment team to leverage applicable services to assess, challenge, and validate control effectiveness

• EUA: partner with first-line risk and business contacts to identify and consult on EUA (end user application) risk management, ensuring they are properly risk assessed and inventoried in the corporate EUA application and develop a program to help ensure compliance with the EUA policy and standards

• Reporting and communication: prepare specific BU functional level risk reports and communications (leveraging AI to produce dashboards, presentations, etc.), leverage Reporting function tools and resources

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Exposure to risk management, audit, compliance, SOX, legal, operations, or related concepts through coursework, internships, volunteer work, or project-based experience

• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

• Comfort working with data, technology, and ambiguous environments

Highly Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in risk management

• 1+ years of professional experience with risk functions such as loss event data, third-party risk, risk assessments, control effectiveness, root cause analysis, business continuity or incident response

• Exposure to enterprise risk programs or RIS business areas

• Experience with ServiceNow, SharePoint and PowerBI (including dashboard creation)

• Ability to interpret data and communicate insights to business partners

• Familiarity with COSO frameworks

Why This Role Matters

You won't be just entering data-you'll be learning how risk truly works across a large enterprise. You'll gain early exposure to senior leaders, learn the inner workings of risk programs, and help shape a growing, maturing ERM function.

Location

This role is based at our Des Moines, Iowa office and offers a flexible hybrid schedule, with three in-office days each week to foster collaboration and connection.

Salary Range Information

Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)

$58900 - $79800 / year

Time Off Program

Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don't accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.

Pension Eligible

Yes

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.

Nonimmigrant Workers (https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-nonimmigrant-workers) and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants (https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants)

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Asset Management positions, you'll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

Experience Principal

At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we're imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services - and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site (https://www.principal.com/about-us/careers) to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Posting Window

We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.

Original Posting Date

11/24/2025

Most Recently Posted Date

11/24/2025