Senior First-Line Risk Leader — Payments & Data Governance (Hybrid)

Early Warning; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

Early Warning is a trusted payments risk leader with a long-standing history of protecting the U.S. financial system. We seek a Sr.

Lead First Line Risk Management - Paze to steer high-impact risk programs across cross-functional teams and partner with executives to shape risk practices. This hybrid role supports hybrid locations like Scottsdale, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. You will advise on material risks, manage remediation priorities, and drive governance through robust metrics and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 12+ years progressive experience.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in risk management or related discipline.
• Expert-level experience in first-line risk management or related discipline.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders on significant risk and control matters.
• Background and drug screen.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact first-line risk programs, assessments, control strategies, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Anticipate internal and external risk challenges and recommend changes to processes, controls, products, services, or operating practices.
• Resolve unique and complex risk problems with broad business impact by integrating business context, data, control evidence, and stakeholder perspectives.
• Shape functional risk practices, governance routines, metrics, and escalation approaches to improve consistency and effectiveness.
• Advise senior business leaders on material risks, control tradeoffs, risk acceptance, remediation priorities, and change readiness.
• Lead major issue-management and remediation efforts, including root-cause analysis and executive-level reporting.
• Represent first-line risk in audits, examinations, governance forums, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Lead project teams or communities of practice and elevate capability through coaching, standards, and reusable tools.

Skills

Leadership

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder advising

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, risk management, finance, technology, data, operations, or related field

Job description

Early Warning is a trusted payments risk leader with a long-standing history of protecting the U.S. financial system. We seek a Sr.

Lead First Line Risk Management - Paze to steer high-impact risk programs across cross-functional teams and partner with executives to shape risk practices. This hybrid role supports hybrid locations like Scottsdale, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. You will advise on material risks, manage remediation priorities, and drive governance through robust metrics and