Risk Assessments Director

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose 

The Risk Assessments Director role is responsible for facilitating the strategic risk evaluation process by partnering with senior leadership and their risk managers. This role ensures that all new products, business initiatives, and significant changes to existing processes are rigorously assessed, with risks identified, monitored, and proactively managed to enhance the organization’s resilience and drive informed decision making.  

Essential Functions 

• Designs and oversees the organization’s enterprise-wide risk assessment framework, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and regulatory expectations. 

• Leads and drives the execution of product and operations risk assessments and new business initiatives. 

• Ensures all appropriate parties identify issues within the parameters of operational risk programs and processes; ensures documentation and reporting of results to management; escalates as appropriate; and oversees remediation. 

• Oversees the identification of key risks and mitigating controls including oversight and challenge of the assessment owner in determining appropriate action plans necessary to address gaps in identified controls or missing controls, inclusive of a risk assessment. 

• Oversees and challenges root cause analyses on identified risk events and recommend improvements to prevent these risk events from reoccurring in future. 

• Recommends improvements to enhance programs to maintain currency with changing business and regulatory requirements. 

• Strategizes with management in the design and implementation of key risk indictors (risk tolerance metrics). 

• Identifies emerging risks, facilitate discussions with the business to develop a risk response strategy, and make recommendations to improve the related control environments. 

• Leads other various risk management projects and delivers results with minimal oversight. 

• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships within the business units and departments. 

• Designs reports to executive management and committees. 

• Evolves