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Director of Enterprise Risk Management

First Interstate
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Mar 2026
💰 $293,920/yr($178,200/yr$293,920/yr)

About the role

**If you are a current FIB employee, please apply through the Career Worklet in the Employee Portal.

This position can be located at Bend, OR; Boise, ID; Denver, CO; Omaha, NE; Sioux Falls, SD and Billings, MT.

What’s Important to You
We know your career is just one aspect of a meaningful, complex, and demanding life. That’s why we designed our compensation and benefits package to provide employees and their families with as much choice as possible.

  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) in addition to paid federal holidays.
  • Student debt employer repayment program.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with a 6% match.
  • The health and happiness of the places we call home matter to us. Learn a little more about what we do for the communities we serve and why we want YOU to be a part of it.

We encourage you to apply. Reach for what you want and tell us why your work ethic and willingness to learn make you a natural fit for #TeamFirstInterstate.

SUMMARY
The Director of Enterprise Risk management is responsible for all corporate related insurance, risk management strategy, and risk profile assessments. This position will have involvement in the Corporate Risk Review Board and support the Contract organization with targeted risk reviews.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Develops and maintains a consistent Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program, working closely with all stakeholders and their respective committees to ensure consistency and transparency within the ERM program.
  • Ensures that the programs within the ERM framework comply with regulatory requirements.
  • Ensures that risk reporting, risk appetite, and risk limits aligns with organizational performance and strategy reporting, to support decision-making and management oversight at the most senior levels.
  • Supports senior leaders to drive a risk culture across the organization and ensures the effective operation of enterprise risk management through the implementation and maintenance of the organization's GRC tool (i.e., Archer).
  • Ensures appropriate oversight over risk and control matrices, risk self-assessments and testing of the control environment in accordance with the Bank’s risk appetite.
  • Develops and maintains an appropriate model risk management program including appropriate framework, maintenance of model inventory and significant spreadsheets, timely validations of models, and appropriate reporting through the relevant committees.
  • Administers all aspects of vendor and other third-party relationships throughout their vendor life cycle; includes developing an overall vendor strategy, contract negotiations, and implementation of tools and processes associated with managing third parties and their related risk.
  • Directs the vendor management team and ensures that trust-based relationships are built with other business units, stakeholders, and third-party providers to maximize functionality and efficiency.
  • Oversees the strategy, development, maintenance, operations, and management of the Incident Management Program to effectively respond to, and recover from, a business disruption event.
  • Manages Crisis Management, Incident Management, Disaster Recovery, and Business Resiliency by working closely and collaboratively across the Bank’s business units to define business continuity and technology resilience requirements, document business impacts and recovery strategies, recovery strategy exercises, and ensures the Bank’s crisis response framework addresses all essential recovery requirements according to regulatory and professional practices.
  • Partners with Business owners to develop and implement plans to keep the Bank effectively functioning after disruptive events such as natural disasters, terrorism, and pandemic viruses.
  • Evaluates, negotiates, and recommends the most effective methods of handling the Company risk through insurance transfer.
  • Provides leadership to insurance claims and other insurance action.
  • Identifies operational risk and control deficiencies in the business.
  • Escalates operational risk loss events, controls deficiencies, and risks on a timely basis.
  • Leverages the value in unit, department, and enterprise-wide teams to develop better solutions and achieve a cross-enterprise mindset.
  • Manages the acquisition and review of liability insurance policies and participate in the negotiation of all such corporate policies.
  • Conducts analysis regarding survey results of corporate risk management strategy, benchmark data, risk profile, proc

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