First Line Risk & Controls Lead

First Horizon Corp.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Horizon Corp. in Charlotte, NC seeks a First Line Risk & Control Officer to partner with business leaders and manage risk in a live operating environment.

The role blends shaping risk programs with delivering timely issue closure and robust control documentation, reporting, and escalation across the defined portfolio. Responsibilities include leading issues lifecycle, risk event management, RCSA execution, and regulatory/audit engagement, ensuring control design and inventory accuracy, and

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of direct related experience in banking or a regulated financial institution.
• Minimum five years in risk management, risk and control, or a comparable discipline.
• Experience owning issues management or risk and control self-assessment (RCSA).

Responsibilities

• Issues management: lead issue lifecycle, validate issues, document root cause with owners, design action plans, and ensure timely closure.
• Risk event management: capture, triage, escalate events, apply threshold timelines, and produce thematic reads.
• RCSA: complete assessments for assigned units, map processes to risk, document residual ratings, and track remediation.
• Controls management: apply first line standards, document design, and maintain inventory in the system of record.
• Business partnership: act as day-to-day first line risk partner to leaders, flag emerging risks.
• Regulatory and audit engagement: prepare first line responses for examinations and audits, defend changes.
• Reporting and risk culture: contribute to risk reporting and leadership communications, monitor indicators.
• Product and process change: assess risk for new/modified products and material changes.

Skills

First line risk

Issues management

RCSA

Regulatory & audit

Control design

Risk reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

First Horizon Corp. in Charlotte, NC seeks a First Line Risk & Control Officer to partner with business leaders and manage risk in a live operating environment.

The role blends shaping risk programs with delivering timely issue closure and robust control documentation, reporting, and escalation across the defined portfolio. Responsibilities include leading issues lifecycle, risk event management, RCSA execution, and regulatory/audit engagement, ensuring control design and inventory accuracy, and