Business Unit Risk Officer (On-site)

Truist•Atlanta, GA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Business Unit Risk Officer serves as a first-line risk leader and trusted advisor to Business Unit leadership, helping the business identify, understand, manage, and escalate risk in alignment with enterprise expectations. This role executes, facilitates, and leads risk program requirements, including issues management, RCSA, KRIs, risk appetite, control assessments, emerging risk monitoring, and remediation oversight. The role is expected to connect risk insights to business outcomes, translate complex risk requirements into practical execution, and provide clear challenge, advice, and reporting across assigned Business Units. The Business Unit Risk Officer I supports assessment and documentation of processes, risks, controls, and resiliency dependencies, identifies control weaknesses or failed processes, and helps drive timely, effective remediation. The role is NOT remote. In office expectations are 5 days per week. Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration-related support for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or related field, or equivalent education and related training.
6+ years of experience in a financial institution with emphasis on risk management or equivalent work experience and training, and/or equivalent education, training and experience.
Experience in compliance and operational risk mitigation and remediation.
Strong communication, interpersonal, presentation and negotiation skills.
Proven leadership and management skills.
Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills in complex environments and with senior leadership.
Strong time management and organizational skills adaptable to a dynamic and complex work environment; Capable of handling multiple projects concurrently.
Demonstrated proficiency in basic computer applications, such as Microsoft Office software products.
Ability to travel, occasionally overnight.

Nice To Haves

Experience in enterprise resiliency, business continuity, crisis management, disaster recovery, operational resilience, technology risk, third-party risk, or related risk programs.
Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted risk leader with an ownership mindset, proactively identifying risk themes, escalating with “no surprises,” and driving practical risk-reducing actions.
Strong business acumen with the ability to connect risk, controls, issues, and resiliency concerns to business priorities, operational outcomes, client impact, and executive decision-making.
Strong working knowledge of enterprise risk and control concepts, including control design and effectiveness, operational risk, strategic risk, issue management, remediation oversight, risk appetite, and risk program deliverables.
Ability to influence across business, technology, operations, second line, and enterprise partners through constructive challenge, clear communication, and relationship-based leadership.
Strong project management and execution discipline, with the ability to move work forward, manage dependencies, track commitments, and maintain momentum in a complex environment.
Executive-ready communication and presentation skills, including the ability to simplify complex risk topics into clear themes, decisions, risks, and actions.
Comfort using data, analytics, automation, AI, workflow tools, and reporting capabilities to improve risk visibility, productivity, and business-facing insights.

Responsibilities

Provide risk advice and serve as a trusted first-line risk leader and Subject Matter Expert (SME) to assigned Business Unit across all risk types, promoting strong risk ownership, compliance with applicable regulations, and effective execution of enterprise risk program requirements.
Translate enterprise resiliency, risk, and control requirements into practical business routines, execution plans, evidence expectations, and leader-ready insights.
Assess and advise on resiliency, operational, technology, third-party, data, workforce, facilities, and process risks that could impact business execution, client outcomes, or operational readiness.
Partner with Enterprise Resiliency, second line risk, technology, operations, and business leaders to identify control gaps, provide effective challenge, support issue remediation, and strengthen preparedness across resiliency and risk programs.
Aggregate, monitor, and communicate risk insights through governance routines, executive reporting, testing outcomes, emerging risk monitoring, and timely escalation of material concerns, with a focus on clear “so what” implications for business leaders.
Partner with teammates across assigned business areas to identify, escalate, and remediate risk and control gaps, driving accountability, sustainable fixes, and alignment with Enterprise Risk Management programs and policy.
Assess, test, and effectively challenge assigned Business Units to support self-identification of control weaknesses, evaluate remediation quality, and confirm issues are resolved in a timely and sustainable manner.
Aggregate, synthesize, and communicate risk results in plain language so stakeholders understand risk themes, business impacts, decisions needed, and escalation points for Business Unit leaders and committees.
Monitor and report on emerging risks that may impact Business Unit partners and Truist, using data, stakeholder feedback, issue trends, control results, and external/internal signals to support proactive risk management.
Oversee risk appetite and business risk strategy by supporting risk identification, acceptance, prioritization, escalation, and decision-making for current and emerging risks.
Understand Business Unit goals, priorities, and transformation activity; provide risk management expertise on strategic initiatives; and bring forward practical solutions that balance risk reduction, business execution, and client impact.
Other activities and special projects, as deemed required.