Sterling Bank & Trust

Description

About Sterling Bank & Trust, FSB: Sterling Bank & Trust provides a comprehensive choice of banking solutions, innovative loan products, and outstanding personal service to individuals, professionals, businesses, and commercial customers as a trusted neighborhood bank. We're known for highly competitive deposit rates, expertise in mortgage lending, and keeping deposits at work in the local community. Our customers know that they can stop by any branch and be treated like family. Since the Bank was founded in 1984, our customers have trusted us to help them handle their banking and financial needs. With over $2 billion in assets, Sterling Bank & Trust continues to grow better to serve our customers in communities across the U.S

Position Summary: Assists in the design and implementation of the Bank's risk oversight function and supporting technology solution. Supports a number of risk management processes and activities, including the enterprise-wide risk assessment program and reporting process, with the purpose of identifying and managing risk and evaluating opportunities for improvement. Support Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) programs within the Second Line of Defense (2LOD) reporting directly to the Enterprise Risk Manager.

Essential Duties and Functions (include but are not limited to):

• Facilitate Risk Control Self-Assessments (RCSA) with First Line of Defense business units, including providing risk education and support, monitoring updates to their risk profiles and reporting on any risks that are above tolerance.
• Participate in the annual Enterprise Risk Assessment, and in other enterprise-level risk assessments as needed.
• Perform risk consulting assignments and process improvement analyses, which may require a high degree of knowledge of banking regulations and business unit operations (e.g., Retail Banking, Residential Lending, and back-office operations).
• Develop risk reports, including both quantitative analytics and qualitative narrative discussion.
• Administer the Bank's Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform, including software development, user management and support, and maintenance of data, workflows and libraries used by the three lines of defense.
• Develop process workflows to document business processes throughout the bank and analyze control gaps.
• Support the development and maintenance of the Policy Governance program, including the Bank's policy document inventory, review and approval schedules and version history.
• Support the development and maintenance of the Model Risk Management program, including its model inventory, classification and validation activities.
• Support the development and maintenance of a centralized Issues Management framework, including the recurring communications with Owners and Delegates, second and third Lines of Defense and Executive Management.
• Support the development and maintenance of the Fraud Risk Management program, including the updates to the Bank's Fraud Risk Assessment, addition of fraud risks and controls, and evaluation of internal and external fraud trends.
• Execute on special projects and other assignments as requested by the Enterprise Risk Manager and Director of ERM Operations.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with Senior Management.
• Complete all required product, service, and compliance training as it relates to the position and employment with Sterling and adheres to BSA Policy and procedures.
• Perform all the above duties consistent with professional ethical standards, including reporting any observed ethical violations to the appropriate management, management and/or Board level committees, and/or the Bank's ethics hotline.

Core Competencies:

• Integrity
  • Sets high standards of honesty for self and others; transparent intentions
  • Self imposes standards of excellence to ensure no aspect of work is neglected
  • Demonstrates trustworthiness and takes responsibility for one's actions
  • Keeps commitments that align with Sterling's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
• Inclusion
  • Treats people with dignity and respect
  • Objectively considers others' ideas and opinions
  • Creates a welcoming environment and promotes cultural competency
  • Actively seeks opportunities to volunteer and partner with non-profit agencies
• Continuous Learning
  • Completes all required training to ensure compliance
  • Identifies and participates in learning activities that lead to professional growth
  • Stays informed on industry trends and changes to achieve individual, team and organizational goals
  • Actively seeks and utilizes feedback to improve and continue to grow professionally within the Bank
• Synergy
  • Utilizes oral and written communication to enhance the relationships between teams, customers and the community members
  • Collaborates together using teams' expertise and knowledge to maximize results
  • Actively seeks information to understand team members and customers' circumstances, problems, expectations and needs
  • Dedicated to creating opportunities allowing teams and individual reach full potential

Technical Competencies:

• Knowledge of financial institution operations and processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to think critically and provide appropriate solutions while assessing a process' risk concerns and quality of controls.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Required Experience and Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5 or more years related experience in a risk management discipline or in a specific risk management capacity, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 3 years' of recent experience in the financial services industry
• Proven ability to help drive change across an organization.
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytical, and verbal or written communication skills.
• Self-starter who works independently.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and departments and at all levels of the organization.

Preferred Experience and Education:

• Master's Degree, CPA, CERP, GRRP, CUERME, or other Risk Management credential, certificate or specialized education.
• Oversight of Issue Management, Fraud Risk Management, Model Risk Management, or Policy Governance.
• Participation with enterprise-level projects and priorities, where tasks were delegated and progress in the project was dependent upon completing assigned deliverables.
• Experience using tools such as GRC Software (including, but not limited to, Resolver, LogicManager, NSuite, Diligent, OneTrust, etc.), Microsoft (specifically: Power BI and Visio) and collaboration software.
• Experience with database management and reporting.

The position is remote (US only), exempt, and salary varies based on location, skills, and experience.

FULL-TIME/PART-TIME: Full-Time

REQ NUMBER: INF-23-00003

LOCATION: Remote Work Option (Remote Position)

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: Sterling Bank & Trust provides a comprehensive choice of banking solutions, innovative loan products, and outstanding personal service to individuals, professionals, businesses, and commercial customers as a trusted neighborhood bank. We're known for highly competitive deposit rates, expertise in mortgage lending, and keeping deposits at work in the local community. Our customers know that they can stop by any branch and be treated like family. Since the Bank was founded in 1984, our customers have trusted us to help them handle their banking and financial needs. With over $3 billion in assets, Sterling Bank & Trust continues to grow better to serve our customers in communities across the U.S.

EOE STATEMENT: Sterling Bank and Trust is proud to be an equal employment employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Sterling Bank. Please inform Sterling Bank's human resources department if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.

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