Risk Management Specialist

2 days ago


Pasadena, California, United States East West Bank Full time
Job Title: Risk Management Specialist

East West Bank is seeking a highly skilled Risk Management Specialist to join our team. As a Risk Management Specialist, you will be responsible for credible challenge and testing of the first line of defense's Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA), programs, and functions to ensure inherent risks are adequately identified, the related control(s) are properly designed and mitigates the inherent risk, and such controls have been implemented, tested, and memorialized in policies, procedures, desktop procedures.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead credible challenge of first line of defense control programs in evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of the first line's key controls and the appropriateness of the risk rating of these key controls.
  • Establish a challenge and testing framework and maintain clear documentation of the scope, selection process, testing, and conclusions reached.
  • Supervise ERM testing engagements from inception to completion, including planning, testing, issues management, and review.
  • Monitor remediation efforts until resolution.
  • Support the quality assessments of RCSAs completed by first line managers and recommend changes as appropriate.
  • Create and memorialize detailed control testing templates, workpapers, and review commentaries.
  • Manage and coordinate all risk activities to ensure material/key risks are appropriately identified, managed, escalated, tracked, and remediated timely.
  • Analyze, aggregate, and articulate the results/issues/recommendations related to control testing activities.
  • Assist with the validation and closure of control issues as identified through testing results.
  • Provide day-to-day management, oversight, and longer-term development planning for risk management staff.
  • Prepare ad-hoc risk management reports as assigned.
  • Perform comprehensive and well-thought-out quantitative analyses and justify ERM's conclusion in a logical manner.
  • Keep up to date with industry best practice and new regulations.
Requirements:
  • More than 10 years of work experience in risk management, Sarbanes Oxley, Internal Audit or External Audit (focusing on risk management, compliance, regulations), risk management consulting, or process improvement.
  • Strong knowledge with risk and control identification, designing, planning, implementing, and testing.
  • Experience in effectively managing a testing or quality assurance program.
  • Ability to project manage and hold self and responsible parties accountable to assigned deadlines.
  • Ability to make sound risk/reward decisions and propose practical solutions.
  • Ability to consciously balance data, logic and intuition in all activities.
  • Ability to think broadly, generate simple and creative ideas, and to translate strategy to execution.
  • Effective verbal, written, and presentation skills with ability to influence desired outcomes.
  • Ability to work within a dynamic collaborative environment in building new programs.
  • Knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards, practices, and expectations for regional/large bank.
  • Proven proactive approach to problem solving and workflow analysis be able to identify and implement process improvements.
  • Collaborative team player with demonstrated ability to be flexible and entertain all possible options.
  • Strong organizational skills, with the ability to effectively manage multiple deliverables and shift among various tasks and projects.
  • Self-motivated and able to work effectively both independently and as a team
  • A strong working knowledge of MS Office Software Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PPT, Visio)
  • Knowledge and understanding of federal and state laws applicable to commercial banks.
  • Experience with development of Key Risk Indicators is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of banking operations, products, and services; experience with risks and controls/control gap identification related to Loan Operations, Commercial Lending and Banking, Bank Support and Corporate functions (such as Marketing, HR, Accounting, FP&A etc.), AML/BSA, Payment Fraud Cross-border Banking, and Digital Banking is a big plus.
  • Professional/Industry Accredited Risk Management certification (e.g., CIA, PRM, CRMP, etc.) is a big plus.
Compensation:

The base pay range for this position is USD $130,000.00/Yr. - USD $155,000.00/Yr. Exact offers will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.



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