Enterprise Risk Manager & GRC Lead

First Bank (FBNC); Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

First Bank (FBNC) is seeking an Enterprise Risk Management professional to help develop and implement the bank's risk management framework. This role reports directly to the Enterprise Risk Management Officer and collaborates with business units to identify, assess, and mitigate operational, technology, reputational, strategic, financial, and legal risks.

Initially, the role will align with a growing ERM team and may supervise analysts in the near future.

Qualifications

• Previous Controls Testing experience and/or Audit within areas such as general banking operations including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial and consumer banking products and services.
• Advanced knowledge of risk management principals and regulatory compliance requirements.
• 2+ years in a supervisory role.
• 6+ years in risk and/or compliance
• 6+ years of experience in testing technical controls in financial institutions
• Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and navigate through complex situations.
• Bachelor's degree or military experience.
• Experience with Microsoft data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate process mapping activities with business stakeholders to document end-to-end workflows, identify key risks and controls, assess process gaps, and support continuous improvement and risk management objectives.
• Support the execution and enhancement of second line of defense Enterprise and Operational Risk Programs specifically in support of the identification and testing of controls.
• This role will serve as liaison between the business and the GRC platform.
• Working with the first line of defense to provide guidance and effective challenge for operational, technology, reputational, strategic, financial, and legal risks related to controls testing.
• Perform independent control testing activities and document results.
• Establish and maintain relationships during testing engagements with both business partners and second line of defense subject matter experts.
• Execute tasks assigned by management to deliver on personal and team objectives.
• Preparing various reports by collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and summarizing source data.
• This role is responsible for contributing to all aspects of the Bank’s GRC platform, including design, configuration and development, testing, implementation, integrations and data feeds, production support, and ongoing maintenance for core and on-demand applications.
• This role will collaborate with all bank stakeholders to assist in the building of solutions that support business requirements and processes for continuous process improvement.
• Contribute to the implementation of new GRC use cases, development, and configuration changes to the GRC platform.
• Administration and support of the GRC platform including, but not limited to, managing customization of objects, fields, record types, page layouts and, validation rules where defects are found.
• Follow software development lifecycle and testing best practices / standards.
• Collaborate closely with relevant risk and business stakeholders in gathering, understanding, documenting, and converting business requirements into technical solutions in the system.
• Identify effective solutions and anticipate future requirements to leverage system capabilities to creatively meet the needs of all business functions in the system.
• Work with end-users to create and manage complex workflow rules, test scenarios, data validation, notification or workflow triggers, and coordinating user acceptance testing
• Develop and maintain all reports, dashboards, workflows and sharing rules within the GRC platform to improve visibility to risk management and issues management activities, and risk and control profiles.
• Monitor GRC performance, oversee daily operations of system to ensure performance and availability, and troubleshoot with GRC platform owner directly when necessary.
• Perform research, system analysis, troubleshooting, programming, or other activities which might be required for the support and development of GRC platform.
• Ensure timely, effective, and quality fixes to defects, while working collaboratively with GRC stakeholders.
• Complete annual compliance courses.
• Adheres specifically to all corporate policies and procedures. Also adheres to Federal and State regulations and laws; including, the Bank Secrecy Act and the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
• Adheres to our Service Excellence standards and promotes their implementation with peers and associates they support.
• Performs other duties as required.

Skills

Controls testing

Risk management

Supervisory experience

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree or military experience

Tools

Microsoft data solutions

Job description

First Bank (FBNC) is seeking an Enterprise Risk Management professional to help develop and implement the bank's risk management framework. This role reports directly to the Enterprise Risk Management Officer and collaborates with business units to identify, assess, and mitigate operational, technology, reputational, strategic, financial, and legal risks.

Initially, the role will align with a growing ERM team and may supervise analysts in the near future.