Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

This Vice President, Enterprise Risk role has key responsibilities as a member of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) team primarily through execution of the enterprise-wide Risk Appetite Statement (RAS) process and management of the Risk functions operating budget. This role will also support other key ERM process responsibilities, such as risk management activities related to the Enterprise Risk Assessment (ERA) and Strategic Initiatives engagement and oversight.

We are proud to offer you choice and flexibility. You have the option to be remote, and work from home, or come into one of our offices. You may be occasionally requested to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, training, and culture events.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead all aspects of Risk Appetite Statement (RAS) process, which centers around describing risk tolerance across risk categories/pillars and establishing risk limits that facilitate monitoring and measurement of performance relative to Risk Appetite.

• Facilitate and complete the periodic review, update, and approval of the Risk Appetite Statements, working across risk pillars.

• Develop and execute accurate and timely Risk Appetite performance reporting (including committee reporting), ensuring required breaches of risk appetite are appropriately actioned and escalated.

• Develop and maintain RAS governance documentation and controls, including reporting End User Computing tool, procedures, data dictionary, job aids and RAS Reporting team site.

• Control oversight, including ensuring completion of required secondary reviews for RAS metric / risk limits.

• Ensure timely communication of RAS changes to business leaders.

• Ensure all RAS process governance documentation, including the RAS Procedure and Data Dictionary, are refreshed at least annually or more frequently, as needed.

• Partner across Risk Pillars and throughout business to ensure aggregated view of risks is coordinated and understood.

• Support the review and submission of the Risk Management Operating Plan and Functional Budget.

• Develop and execute reporting related to the Risk Functional Budget.

• Support Risk team with accounts payable activities (examples: cost center approver updates, point of contact for cost center use, purchase orders, and invoice tracking).

• Partner with Finance to provide periodic Operating Plan pacing updates.

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, plus 5 years of work experience in the financial services industry or in lieu of degree, 8 years of financial services experience.

• 3 years of experience with exposure to risk management within the consumer financial services industry.

• 3 years of experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.

• 3 years of successful work in a matrixed environment, leading projects and presenting results to senior leaders.

Desired Characteristics:

• Broad-based risk knowledge, ability to identify risks and document mitigating controls.

• Knowledge or willingness to learn data visualization options and utilize for reporting and monitoring of risk aggregation across pillars.

• Use of personal influence and credibility to achieve organizational results by collaborating across business functions, sales platforms, and risk pillars/teams.

• Ability to objectively identify and understand how to measure risks as well as effectively challenge and communicate risks across pillars and across the organization.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to build strong relationships with business partners and to be top of mind when questions arise with business partners.

• Proven ability to influence senior management and initiate change.

• Ability to be forward-thinking in the identification of future risks and work cross-functionally to mitigate identified risks.

• Experience in internal audit, testing, risk or in a governance function.

• Proficiency in MS Office applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Tableau experience in pulling reports and providing guidance/direction to build dashboards.

Grade/Level: 12

The salary range for this position is 110,000.00 - 185,000.00 USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.

Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.

Eligibility Requirements:

• You must be 18 years or older

• You must have a high school diploma or equivalent

• You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process

• You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

• New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles. Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months’ time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles. Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 18 months’ time in position before they can post. All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don’t meet the time in position or performance expectations).

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. 

Our Commitment:

When you join us, you’ll be part of a diverse, inclusive culture where your skills, experience, and voice are not only heard—but valued. We celebrate the differences in all of us and believe that our individual, unique perspectives is what makes Synchrony truly a great place to work. Together, we’re building a future where we can all belong, connect and turn ideals into action. Through the power of our 8 Diversity Networks , with more than 60% of our workforce engaged, you’ll find community to connect with an opportunity to go beyond your passions.

This starts when you choose to apply for a role at Synchrony. We ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Reasonable Accommodation Notice:

• Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

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