Enterprise Risk Analyst

The Enterprise Risk Analyst is responsible for supporting the Enterprise and Operational Risk Management Team with a primary focus on monitoring the issue management lifecycle and the Key Risk Indicatory (KRI) process. This role ensures that risk issues are properly monitored in accordance with the bank’s risk governance standard and that KRIs are accurately reported and analyzed to provide timely risk insight to management and governance committees.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Monitor the end-to-end Issue Management process, including identification, documentation, root cause analysis, action plans, remediation, validation, and closure.
• Maintain the centralized issues inventory in NAVEX IRM, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Coordinate with business line managers, audit, compliance and other risk partners to create remediation plans.
• Track Issues status, remediation milestones, and overdue actions; Follow up with the issue owners to obtain updates and support documentation.
• Escalate overdue and high-risk issues.
• Prepare issue status reports and dashboards for management and Risk Committee.
• Support the ongoing administration of the enterprise Key Risk Indicator (KRI) process across the bank.
• Collect, validate, and analyze KRI data submitted by the metric owners in NAVEX IRM.
• Track and ensure timely documentation of values.
• Maintain the KRI inventory, definitions, thresholds, and escalate triggers.
• Prepare KRI dashboards, heatmaps, and trend analysis for the Risk Committee and senior management
• Assist with risk projects, initiatives, and special assignments to support bank objectives.

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position will not have supervisory responsibilities.

Job Type:

This is a full-time, exempt position. Typical work hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Travel:

Occasional travel to Houston headquarters or other Bank locations may be required with the ability to expense.

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements:

This position operates in a professional office environment. This position requires regular sitting, walking, standing, lifting (up to 50 pounds), reading, seeing (including color, peripheral vision, depth perception, and adjusted focus), speaking, hearing, listening, organizing, interpreting data and information, operating office equipment, typing using a computer keyboard and mouse, viewing a computer screen monitor, and use of a telephone. The working environment consists of an indoor and climate-controlled setting most of the time.

Education, Experience & Other Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Risk Management, or a related field required.
• 2-5 years of experience in operational risk management, internal audit, or compliance within a financial institution required.
• Exposure to audits and regulatory exams.
• Demonstrate experience with issue tracking, remediation monitoring, and KRIs
• Proficient with Integrated Risk Management (IRM) tools (e.g., NAVEX, RSA Archer, MetricStream, or similar).
• Or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

Core Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving – Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, anomalies, and emerging risks.

Attention to Detail – Detail-oriented with strong project management and organizational skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a controlled and compliant operating environment.

Relationship Building, Collaboration & Communication – Works effectively with internal and external customers, across teams and departments, communicating information clearly and building partnerships to meet shared goals.

Knowledge of three lines of defense –Strong Understanding of the three lines of defense model.