Sr. Risk Management Manager - LOD1 - Paze

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.

Overview

This position is responsible for consulting with, educating and supporting Paze on the execution of enterprise and operational risk programs, promoting an environment of risk awareness and ownership in the business and supporting the adherence to the Company's risk appetite. This role will help to ensure timely execution of risk program requirements, including risk and control self-assessments, reporting as required by various governance committees and the identification and escalation of risks and issues with business unit management and second line of defense risk partners. This position also serves as a subject matter expert on risk programs, policies, and frameworks for the business unit(s) it supports.

Essential Functions

Risk, Control, and Issue Management

• Serves as a risk subject matter expert, providing guidance and process coaching to the business unit, to understand, create and maintain a comprehensive and complete process, risk, and control universe including the execution of Product Risk Assessment and Risk and Control Self Assessment and related duties in the Software Development Lifecycle process.

• Ensures timely identification, remediation, mitigation and escalation of risks and issues and consults with business line management to ensure the efficient and accurate execution and closure of issues.

• Oversee the development and execution of the business unit’s risk-based testing and monitoring program and ensure control testing and/or monitoring is completed in accordance with the Company’s risk program framework and professional standards.

• Provide instruction on adequate monitoring of the business-line’s third-party relationships, including both performance and risk management.

• Manage audits and regulatory exams; work across business lines to gather and coordinate regulatory exam documentation; obtain leadership approval; monitor to ensure on time delivery of exam documentation to regulatory relations lead.

Risk Governance and Culture

• Collaborate with business line leadership to manage risks within the Company’s risk appetite, and support key decision-making activities.

• Understand and adhere to the Company’s regulatory requirements, policies, standards, and procedures and create procedures within the business unit, as needed, to operationalize and ensure adherence to relevant requirements.

• Educate, train, and advise business leaders on risk management practices and activities.

• Lead business through ongoing identification of current and emerging risks.

Reporting and Analytics

• Aggregate and analyze risk data to support reporting and analytics for risk management use by the business and second line.

• Track audit and exam deliverables to ensure timely completion and evaluate provided materials for relevance, accuracy and completeness against exam or audit requests; provide guidance and revision recommendations for deliverables that are not meeting requirements; Track and report status of remediation work by owners of exam and audit findings, as applicable.

• Work with business on content for risk reporting and updates to senior management, risk committees, internal audit, and external oversight bodies.

• The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or other related field of specialty.

• Minimum of six or more years of risk management experience, preferably within financial services using the three lines of defense model.

• Strong understanding of risks, controls, and issue