Business Risk Manager – Third-Party Evaluation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +5 more states.

📋 Description

• Leads and nurtures a team of professionals tasked with risk analysis, evaluation, and reporting.

• Evaluates risk position and conveys risk trends to senior management.

• Manages and oversees the business and third-party risk review pipeline.

• Supervises and assesses third-party evaluations and due diligence assessments and reports.

• Aids and facilitates critical projects and initiatives to enhance revenue generation.

• Maintains vigilance and oversight of emerging risk trends.

• Suggests appropriate modifications to policies, processes, and procedures to support the development of new products.

• Responsible for overseeing personnel, which includes hiring, training, assigning tasks, directing work, setting goals, assessing performance, and addressing employee-related concerns.

• Supervises partner and third-party due diligence, including financial, operational, compliance, and regulatory assessments.

• Implements risk governance framework(s).

• Acts as an escalation point for risk and third-party evaluations, solution development, and approvals.

• Collaborates and fosters relationships with other risk and line of business leaders to achieve initiatives and build trust with stakeholders.

• Develops, tracks, and reports on KPIs and KRIs for various internal metrics.

• Proactively identifies gaps, obstacles, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies that affect revenue initiatives and seeks to resolve them.

• Represents business risk at the appropriate organizational level.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience.

• Over 5 years of experience in a risk management capacity.

• Previous experience in Third-Party Risk Management.

• Knowledge of Merchant Acquiring Payment Solutions, Card Brand Rules, Direct-to-Debit, Payment Solutions, Sponsor Banking, Real-Time Payments, Consumer and Commercial Lending.

• Strong leadership skills.

• Innovative mindset.

• Strategic thinking and business acumen.

• Focused on outcomes.

• Strong planning and organizational abilities.

• Ability to empower others.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• 401(k) retirement benefits.

• Life insurance.

• Disability benefits.

• Paid time off.

• Annual performance-based incentive opportunity.