Physical Security Officer

HomeTrust Bank; Asheville, Greenville (NC, SC, FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HomeTrust Bank is seeking a seasoned Physical Security Officer to lead enterprise security strategy across multiple locations in the Carolinas. You will identify, mitigate, and respond to physical security and crime risks while safeguarding people and assets.

Your role includes governance of access controls, video systems, guard operations, and incident response. You will drive security training, policy development, and compliance with DHS and related regulations, partnering with HR, Real

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice or equivalent training.
• 10+ years leading physical security including threat and vulnerability assessments.
• 8+ years crisis management and business continuity with incident response experience.
• 5+ years leadership in a matrix organization with broad influence.
• Ability to develop engaging security training and measure program effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and deploy security strategies and technology to safeguard personnel and assets.
• Lead physical security programs across multiple locations including access control and video surveillance.
• Oversee policy development, incident response, and regulatory compliance efforts.
• Coordinate with HR, facilities, and law enforcement; report threats to leadership.
• Manage security budgets and vendor relationships; ensure cost effectiveness.
• Provide regular security briefings and threat assessments to senior leaders.
• Develop awareness materials and training to advance security posture.
• Ensure compliance with DHS, CISA, BSA, AML, CIP and related regulations.

Skills

Leadership

Crisis management

Threat assessment

Vulnerability assessments

Incident response

Security program governance

Workplace violence training

Policy compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive protection

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice or equivalent training

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Physical Security Officer is the Physical Security leader for HomeTrust Bank and is responsible for the development and implementation of the enterprise strategy to identify and mitigate physical security and crime risk, maintain continuity of security operations, and safeguard the organization’s people, assets, and facilities.

Key Responsibilities / Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Analyze and deploy technology solutions and innovative security management strategies, methodologies, and best practices to safeguard personnel and organizational assets.
• Identify, develop, implement, and maintain security processes and procedures across the bank to ensure regulatory compliance, to include responding to incidents, and limiting exposure to liability.
• Contribute to the reduction of losses by analyzing and reporting on the effectiveness of security protection programs, strategies, countermeasures, and critical incident response, and consulting with the senior leadership team regarding the adoption of appropriate policies, control measures, and similar enterprise security programs.
• Serve as the SME and provide oversight, delivery, management, and maintenance of critical physical security programs across the bank including access control, guard force staffing, video surveillance, and similar enterprise risk mitigation management programs.
• Lead first response and threat management efforts.
• Lead Corporate Security Program maturity and continuous improvement, including but not limited to technical physical security governance, centralized oversight of all guard force operations, and maintaining a layered risk-based approach to physical security and crime risk mitigation across the bank.
• Develop appropriate awareness materials for pertinent audiences (including employees) to advance the bank’s physical security posture.
• Develop, implement, and lead active aggressor and workplace violence deterrence and training programs.
• Provide security-related guidance and expertise to employees and the senior leadership team on situations related to physical security and criminal matters.
• Mitigate workplace violence through proactive intelligence collection, development of policies, and coordination with internal business partners.
• Collaborate closely with law enforcement, industry peers and related organizations to stay abreast of existing and emerging threats and developing mitigation strategies to limit their impact on the company and employees.
• Monitor, assess, and report security threats which may impact operations.
• Collaborate with HR and other business partners as necessary to conduct investigations related to security policy violations, security incidents, threats of workplace violence, loss prevention, property loss or reputational security matters, ensuring proper reporting, evidence chain of custody, retention of surveillance and communication to company stakeholders and law enforcement.
• Provide regular security briefings and threat/vulnerability/intelligence assessments to the senior leadership team. Support safe events, community engagements and in-person training activities, as appropriate.
• Develop, implement, and provide a regular cadence of retraining to ensure compliance with physical regulations, including but not limited to those by DHS, CISA, and similar.
• Partner with Real Estate, Facilities, and others from project inception through system design, to final acceptance testing during all planning, construction, and remodeling of facilities (owned or leased) to ensure all physical security and crime risk mitigation concerns are addressed and remediated.
• Develop, implement, and monitor for compliance a regular cadence of risk assessments and security reviews of all locations, to include risk remediation activities resulting from the associated assessments and reviews.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies and others.
• Select and manage all security and surveillance system third-party vendor relationships, conducting regular business reviews and periodic RFPs to ensure performance to established standards and cost effectiveness of services.
• Develop and manage Security budgets.
• Maintain confidentiality and security of sensitive information.
• Adhere to all corporate policies and procedures, Federal and State regulations, and laws.
• Complete all mandatory annual compliance training.
• Follow regulatory requirements including those pertaining to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Customer Identification Program (CIP), and OFAC to assist in the identification, detection, and determent of money laundering and other unlawful activities, as well as regulations pertaining to lending and consumer compliance to include fair lending laws.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

Job Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice or equivalent training with experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Required:

• 10+ years proven experience leading and managing physical security to include threat and vulnerability assessments, mitigation strategies, major event planning, executive protection, and workplace violence in an organization with multiple locations.
• 8+ years experience with crisis management, emergency preparedness planning and business continuity with proven capability in incident response and de-escalation.
• 5+ years leadership experience and the ability to establish credibility as a business partner with all levels within a matrix organization and exhibit a high degree of influence.
• Proven blend of business acumen, independent judgment, technical expertise, and leadership skills.
• Strong observational and problem-solving skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to remain calm and effective under pressure.
• Ability to handle/manage rapidly changing priorities in a changing environment with a sense of urgency and professionalism.
• Must be able to develop and provide effective and engaging security training materials for team members and business partners.
• Must be able to effectively measure and report on program effectiveness and success via KPIs and metrics reporting.
• Experience building or managing a comprehensive physical security program required.
• Experience working across multiple subject areas, geographies and with various security technologies/integrators required.
• Ability to direct, motivate, and empower others to work towards company goals, ensuring efficient allocation of resources across multiple functions.
• Capable of addressing emerging threats, trends, and opportunities, and developing a roadmap for how Security will be prepared to address or realize them.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products.

Preferred:

• Prior experience in physical security in banking/financial services

About HomeTrust Bank

HomeTrust Bank, founded in 1926, is a North Carolina chartered, community-focused financial institution committed to providing value-added community banking through online/mobile channels and multiple locations in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. Learn more at www.htb.com.

Work Environment, Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. HomeTrust Bank promotes an equal employment opportunity workplace which includes reasonable accommodation of qualified applicants and employees.

• This job operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and scanners.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Physical activity requiring reaching, sifting, lifting to 25 lbs., finger dexterity, grasping, feeling, repetitive motions, talking and hearing are required.
• The employee will frequently communicate and must be able to exchange accurate information with others.
• The employee may need to move around their office to attend meetings and to access files, machinery, or other job-related tools.
• Must be able to travel up to 50%.

DISCLAIMER: HomeTrust Bank is an evolving company. As such this job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

HomeTrust Bank’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal law. Employment decisions will be based on valid job requirements and business needs, and we administer personnel action (including recruitment, selection, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, training, and social/recreation programs) without discrimination on any prohibited basis.

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