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About the Role

This position is responsible for consulting with, educating, and supporting business units on the execution of enterprise and operational risk programs. The role promotes risk awareness and ownership, supports adherence to the company's risk appetite, and ensures timely execution of risk program requirements. It also serves as a subject matter expert on risk programs, policies, and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Consult with, educate, and support business units on enterprise and operational risk programs.
• Promote an environment of risk awareness and ownership within the business.
• Support adherence to the Company's risk appetite.
• Ensure timely execution of risk program requirements, including risk and control self-assessments.
• Provide reporting as required by various governance committees.
• Identify and escalate risks and issues with business unit management and second line of defense risk partners.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on risk programs, policies, and frameworks for supported business units.
• Provide guidance and process coaching to business units for risk and control universe management.
• Ensure timely identification, remediation, mitigation, and escalation of risks and issues.
• Consult with business line management on efficient and accurate issue execution and closure.
• Oversee the development and execution of the business unit’s risk-based testing and monitoring program.
• Ensure control testing and/or monitoring is completed in accordance with the Company’s risk program framework and professional standards.
• Guide business partners through governance processes for new products, services, initiatives, and vendors.
• Support documentation of associated risk assessments for new business/products and third-party management.
• Identify risks associated with new or changed processes, products, services, and third parties.
• Oversee the monitoring and reporting of risks to management and relevant committees.
• Collaborate with business line leadership to manage risks within the Company’s risk appetite.
• Support key decision-making activities.
• Understand and adhere to the Company’s regulatory requirements, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Create procedures within the business unit to operationalize and ensure adherence to relevant requirements.
• Educate, train, and advise business leaders on risk management practices and activities.
• Lead the business through ongoing identification of current and emerging risks.
• Aggregate and analyze risk data to support reporting and analytics for risk management.
• Work with the business on content for risk reporting and updates to senior management, risk committees, internal audit, and external oversight bodies.

Requirements

• Independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire.
• Position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.
• Typically a minimum of 12 or more years of risk management experience, preferably within financial services using the three lines of defense model.
• Strong understanding of risks, controls, and issues management.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a complex, highly regulated environment.
• Working knowledge of regulatory requirements related to financial services, consumer facing products and payments.
• Experience and success working and directing cross-functional teams.
• Persuasive communication, organization, and presentation skills.
• Effective influence management skills with experience challenging peers and managers with contrasting views.
• Ability to direct a team on managing risk management responsibilities while addressing unexpected events.
• Background and drug screen required.

Skills

• Risk management
• Operational risk programs
• Risk awareness
• Risk appetite
• Risk and control self-assessments
• Risk identification
• Risk escalation
• Subject matter expertise on risk programs, policies, and frameworks
• Process coaching
• Risk and control universe management
• Risk remediation
• Risk mitigation
• Issue management
• Control testing
• Monitoring program execution
• Risk-based testing
• New business/product risk assessment
• Third-party risk management
• Governance processes
• Risk reporting
• Risk analytics
• Regulatory requirements adherence
• Policy adherence
• Standard adherence
• Procedure creation
• Risk management practices education
• Emerging risk identification
• COSO's Internal Control – Integrated Framework knowledge (preferred)
• Risk management certification (preferred)
• Internal control certification (preferred)
• Certified Regulatory Compliance (CRCM) certification (preferred)

Location

• Scottsdale
• San Francisco
• Chicago
• New York
• Phoenix, AZ

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 12+ years of risk management experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or other related field of specialty

Salary/Compensations

• $129,000 - $161,000 (Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL / Washington, DC)
• $154,000 - $193,000 (New York, NY/ San Francisco, CA)

Benefits

• Discretionary incentive plan
• Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP) plans
• Dental plans
• Vision plans
• Company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on first 6% deferral
• Flexible Time Off for Exempt employees
• Generous PTO for Non-Exempt employees
• 11 paid company holidays
• Paid volunteer day
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning support (egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, returning to work)

About the Company

• Early Warning has powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and more.
• As a trusted name in payments, they partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Equal Opportunity

• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws.
• The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.