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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency:  English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

This Senior Technology Risk Advisor role is responsible for ensuring strong first line of defense risk management for the Enterprise Payments and Wholesale Technology team. This role provides an opportunity to leverage strong prior technology and risk management experience to ensure activities align with sound risk management practices and the Truist Risk Appetite Framework.

This role provides an opportunity to collaborate and influence outcomes at all levels of the organization to drive adoption of Truist risk program requirements as well as strengthen controls to detect and prevent issues. The role requires effective and objective assessment of material risk taking by the business unit, prompt identification, and appropriate escalation and management of risks.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in banking technology roles coupled with a solid understanding of risk management processes. Risk Advisors demonstrate sound judgment, strong relationship skills, a risk-based mindset, a flexibility to re-focus based on evolving priorities, and a level of trust to serve as a valuable resource to leaders within the Enterprise Technology, Governance & Controls, and Risk Management organizations.

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job.  

• Identification, escalation, mitigation planning, and remediation oversight of control gaps and control weaknesses within Enterprise Payments and Wholesale Technology

• Learn Truist Policies and Standards to proactively identify gaps and impacts of changes

• Lead discussions to explore potential gaps in adherence to policies and standards

• Write, review, and improve the quality of self-identified finding submissions

• Ensure remediation plans are developed to strengthen controls and drive risk reduction activities

• Manage a pipeline of findings which need to be opened, modified, or closed to ensure effective prioritization to remain within metric tolerance

• Proactive management of registered controls to ensure they are written to standard, and owners are preparing for tests of design and effectiveness

• Challenge and improve the quality of evidence validation packages for finding closure

• Ensure accurate and timely executive commentary for findings health and KRI metrics

• Challenge and approve publishing of content to Committees and Regulators

• Submit requests for Policy Exceptions or Risk Acceptance, when warranted

• Ensure the portfolio of findings adhere to Enterprise Issues Management Procedures

• Review, challenge, and approve requests to advance projects through the lifecycle

• Promote Truist risk management values and culture

• Executive presentations and other duties, as appropriate for the role.

Required Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or related field, or equivalent education and related training

• Twelve years of experience in a financial institution with emphasis on risk management or equivalent work experience and training

• Experience in compliance and operational risk mitigation and remediation

• Strong