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Job Title:
Strategic & Reputational Risk Senior ManagerLocation:
CityScapeWhat you'll do:
The Strategic & Reputational Risk Senior Manager will be responsible for providing 2LOD risk oversight and effective challenge, as well as improving associated committee/board reporting. The successful candidate will partner effectively across all Lines of Defense and be closely involved with foundational Enterprise Risk Management programs such as the Risk & Controls Self-Assessment, Issues Management, and Risk Appetite KRI programs.The Strategic & Reputational Risk team is part of the Bank's wider Risk Management department and a rapidly growing team focused on providing expert guidance, credible challenge, and effective oversight of risk-taking activities throughout the Bank. The Risk Management department plays a critical role in helping to inform bank management and the Board of Directors of the risks inherent in its actions and decisions, enterprise impacts, and opportunities to manage risk.
Reporting to the Director of Strategic Risk Initiatives, the ideal candidate will be driven to build and scale, ready to challenge the status quo, able to comprehensively synthesize and communicate information, as well as driven to continuously improve. This role will start as an individual contributor with requisite analyst support from within the Strategic & Reputational Risk team.
What we are looking for:
Responsibilities
- Operationalize enterprise-wide risk identification and assessment processes, ensuring alignment and connectivity between top-down/bottom-up activities, quarterly/annual risk assessments, etc.
- On-going oversight and challenge of Strategic and Reputational Risk RCSAs, issues, and Risk Appetite levels/KRIs. Champion a strong risk culture for the company by elevating risk and control ownership awareness.
- Enhancing, operationalizing, and documenting Strategic Risk management programs such as the Strategic Plan Risk Assessment, Strategic Plan Implementation monitoring, as well as KRI development and monitoring.
- Enhancing, operationalizing, and documenting Reputational Risk management programs such as KRI development and monitoring as well as committee/board reporting.
- Partnering with Operational Risk Management to mature and operationalize the firm's stress testing scenario analysis process.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 9 years of direct or related experience in Risk Management, Internal Audit, Finance, Public Accounting, or Management Consulting
- Knowledge of general banking operations and governance practices, industry trends, competitive landscape, and corporate strategy
- Knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices
- Experience with enterprise-wide change management principles and/or complex initiatives
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Proven ability to interact with all levels of an organization, especially senior management
- Ability to drive multiple agendas simultaneously to achieve continuous outcomes
- Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills
Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!
About the company:
Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.
Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.
Western Alliance Bancorporation
Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email recruiter@westernalliancebank.com or call (602) 797-3662.