Senior ERM Leader: Governance, Risk & Board Reporting

Avidbank; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

401k with matching

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Avidbank in San Jose, CA, is seeking a Senior Vice President, Enterprise Risk Management Officer, to lead the bank’s enterprise risk program in a hybrid work environment. This role reports to the Chief Operating Officer and oversees second-line risk across all major risk disciplines.

The ideal candidate will strengthen governance, risk appetite, and enterprise risk reporting, partnering with executives and the Board to ensure timely escalation of risks, disciplined issue management, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, risk management or related field.
• Progressive leadership experience in commercial banking or another regulated financial institution with enterprise risk management oversight.
• Strong knowledge of banking risk management, governance, internal controls, risk appetite, issue management and regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Bank's enterprise risk management framework, governance structure, policies, methodologies, and reporting practices to align with strategy, growth, complexity and regulatory expectations.
• Own and mature the risk appetite framework, including metrics, thresholds, escalation protocols, breach reporting, management actions, and periodic refreshes for Board and committee review.
• Strengthen enterprise risk governance through effective committee structures, clear escalation practices, disciplined issue management, and documentation of key risk decisions and accountabilities.
• Prepare and coordinate Risk Oversight Committee materials, including agendas, enterprise risk reporting packages, supporting analysis, meeting minutes, and follow-up action tracking.
• Deliver concise, actionable enterprise risk reporting to Executive Management, the Risk Oversight Committee, the Audit Committee, and the Board, including risk trends, concentrations, emerging risks, appetite breaches, and remediation progress.
• Develop and oversee the Bank's risk and control self-assessment program to support consistent identification, evaluation, monitoring, and reporting of key risks and control effectiveness across the organization.
• Provide second-line oversight of core risk disciplines, including operational risk, model risk, third-party risk, new product and change risk, compliance risk, and other enterprise risk areas in partnership with functional leaders.
• Provide independent risk review and effective challenge for strategic initiatives, business plans, product proposals, outsourcing arrangements, technology changes, and other material management decisions.
• Partner with regulators, internal audit, executive leadership, and business owners to support examinations, audits, remediation efforts, control enhancements, and continuous improvement of the risk and control environment.
• Promote a strong risk culture and lead, develop, and retain a high-performing risk team capable of supporting the Bank's strategic priorities and increasing complexity.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Enterprise risk management

Board reporting

Regulatory knowledge

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Risk governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, risk management

Job description

Avidbank in San Jose, CA, is seeking a Senior Vice President, Enterprise Risk Management Officer, to lead the bank’s enterprise risk program in a hybrid work environment. This role reports to the Chief Operating Officer and oversees second-line risk across all major risk disciplines.

The ideal candidate will strengthen governance, risk appetite, and enterprise risk reporting, partnering with executives and the Board to ensure timely escalation of risks, disciplined issue management, and