Pathward is hiring a
Director Risk

Summary

Join our team at Pathward as we strive to create financial inclusion for all through responsible, secure, high-quality financial products. We're a hybrid, remote-office company dedicated to growing our talent anywhere! As a risk strategy leader, you'll oversee risk analysis, review, and reports, communicate risk to regulators, and collaborate with other risks and line of business leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience
• 8+ years with merchant acquiring, or other related card brand payment products
• Merchant Acquiring Payment Solutions, Card Brand Rules, Direct-to-Debit, Payment Solutions, Real Time Payments, Third Party Risk Management
• Influencing others
• Innovation
• Strategic Thinking and Business Acumen
• Outcome Driven
• Planning and Organization
• Empowering others

Responsibilities

• Leads and develops a team of professionals responsible for risk analysis, review, and reports
• Assesses risk position and communicates trends to senior leadership and risk committees
• Regularly communicates risk to regulators, leads regulatory discussions and presents information, and responds to regulatory requests
• Collaborates and builds relationships with other risks and line of business leaders to deliver on initiatives and establish trust with stakeholders
• Develop, monitor, and report on KPIs and KRIs for various internal measures including senior leadership and board reporting
• Proactively identifies gaps, roadblocks, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies that impact risk initiatives and efforts and works to mitigate them
• Represents risk at the appropriate level across the organization and advocates for and defends decisions associated with strategy and plans

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) retirement benefits
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Paid time off