2026 ETP Intern - Risk Management, Credit Risk, Birmingham, AL

Regions Bank•Birmingham, AL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Regions, the Intern works on department assignments while learning more about the financial services industry. As an intern, you will experience Regions’ values while receiving job skills and training, personal development, and networking opportunities. Regions offers college internship opportunities within various departments. The Regions Risk Management Summer Internship Program offers internship opportunities to college students which includes positions across Corporate Compliance, Operational Risk Management, Enterprise Credit Risk, Financial Risk Management, and Enterprise Risk Management. Summer Interns will gain hands-on experience and exposure to various initiatives in Risk Management that are key priorities to enhance risk management principles and practices across the entire organization. Summer Interns will operate as key team members, supporting internal initiatives. Each Summer Intern will be assigned to a specific team, participate in centralized training sessions, and have opportunities to interact with senior members to gain exposure to the various groups within Regions Risk Management.

Requirements

A college student who has interest in developing technical skills and gaining work experience
Ability to work 40 hours a week for 10 weeks
Regions will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Current undergraduate or graduate student with expected graduation of Fall 2026 or Spring 2027, majoring in technical (ex. data science, technology) or business fields

Nice To Haves

Active in leadership posting on campus and/or involved in campus extracurricular activities
Critical thinking skills
Intellectually curious
Microsoft Office skills
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Team oriented with ability to work independently
Preferred minimum 3.0 GPA
Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment
Proven dedication to excellence and achieving results
Strong analytical and organizational skills
Ability to quickly learn new technology

Responsibilities

Receives exposure to all basic functions of assigned group within the financial industry
Exposed to a wide range of tasks including research, administrative and correspondence work and attend meetings
Provides assistance in projects
Gains valuable insight within a variety of functions while strengthening core skills and knowledge needed to launch a successful career
Responsibilities will vary by internship
This position requires the tracking of time and is eligible for overtime hours worked in excess of 40 per week under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Summer Interns will operate as key team members, supporting internal initiatives.
Each Summer Intern will be assigned to a specific team, participate in centralized training sessions, and have opportunities to interact with senior members to gain exposure to the various groups within Regions Risk Management.
Corporate Compliance – The Corporate Compliance intern will have the opportunity to work with subject matter experts in the compliance space. Through risk assessment design and execution, control documentation, testing coordination, monitoring, and tracking, the intern will develop and strengthen skills to contribute to the overall Corporate Compliance team.
The experience will give an intern exposure to various areas of compliance across the bank, as well as an understanding around how data can be utilized to inform decision-making.
Operational Risk Management – The Operational Risk Management intern will gain experience with one of the ORM support groups.
The intern will strengthen their technical skills, writing skills, communication skills, risk management knowledge, and would get the experience of working with a diverse team of deeply skilled subject matter experts.
The intern will also have the opportunity to learn about operational risk areas through investigation, reporting, and data analysis.
Enterprise Credit Risk – Credit Portfolio Management: The Enterprise Credit Risk – Credit Portfolio Management intern will have an opportunity to explore multiple facets of emerging risk research.
The intern will leverage internal and external data research resources to take part in performance trend analysis, market trend and outlook analysis, collaborative work through inbound questions from business leaders, support ad-hoc research efforts, and more.
Enterprise Credit Risk – Data Governance: The Enterprise Credit Risk – Data Governance intern will engage with expedited governance work for Regions’ most critical regulatory reports and high-risk models.
This work includes performing end to end data lineage/mapping, identifying data controls and recommending solutions when control gaps are detected, and designing and testing data quality rules for critical data elements.
Additionally, the intern will help remediate data issues identified within Regions’ critical data elements.
Financial Risk Management – Market, Liquidity and Capital (MLC) Risk: The MLC Risk intern will have the opportunity to work on various projects including investment portfolio analysis, interest rate risk (IRR), regulatory gap analysis, review of qualitative approaches specific to capital planning, components of the independent liquidity review, and capital and liquidity stress testing.
The intern will receive knowledge around how the bank enhances resiliency through proper capital and liquidity planning, better understand how the economy and interest rates impact the bank’s financial performance, and how risk management practices are utilized to monitor and manage those risks.
Enterprise Risk Management – Governance Risk: The Enterprise Risk Governance Risk intern will engage in many facets of risk governance.
The intern will support workstreams dedicated to risk management practices and governance.
Projects might include data synthesis, upgrading testing and validation, enhancing requirements documentation, business process mapping integration, migration testing and validation, as well as creating and updating training documentation.