SVP Enterprise and Operational Risk Management

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Risk Management team has responsibility for ensuring growth and other strategic initiatives and activities are consistent with the company's risk appetite. The team holistically manages enterprise, credit, fraud prevention, anti-money laundering, regulatory, compliance, and other business operating risks (third-party, model, and privacy). In addition, Risk Management directly manages enterprise partners, acts as a multi-layered second line of defense in oversight of business operations, and works to ensure risk policies enable a business and customer focused experience.

The SVP Risk Manager -Enterprise & Operational Risk Manager will have responsibility for partnering with Business Units, Information Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Internal Audit and other Risk Management teams to ensure and drive operational efficiency, controls, monitoring, and constant process improvement across the organization.

In addition, this second line of defense role is responsible for participation in design, implementation, and operationalization across the first line of defense. Initially, this role will assess, build foundational loss capture infrastructure, and review the risks through dashboards, reporting, business unit meetings, or other tools and systems to ensure risks are addressed early on and mitigation executed as soon as possible.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Identification, mitigation, and monitoring enterprise and operational risks, including integration into strategic planning through the development and implementation of policies, procedures, standards, and frameworks
• Development and oversight of quantitative risk analysts for enterprise and operational risk management and executive decision making
• Implementing Risk Culture & Awareness Initiatives
• Functional oversight for certain operational risks, including model risk
• Leadership and implementation of the Enterprise Risk Appetite Framework for 1st and 2nd lines of defense
• Effective Challenge- evaluate process alignment with the company's risk appetite, evaluate self-assessed controls, collect and monitor corrective action plans for internal and external processes, manage relationships to ensure execution of operational remediation plans.
• Drive Performance Outcomes deliver industry best practices, tools, systems, guidance, and training to increase analytical capabilities and risk-based results.
• Be a key participant/leader within various operational or risk related committees supporting the bank.
• Establish effective, efficient and supportive independent relationships with all functional areas
• Support regulatory examinations and other supervisory activities as required.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Skills

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as procedure manuals, general business correspondence and/or journals or government regulations
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret financial report and/or legal documents
• Ability to write routine reports, procedures and business correspondence
• Ability to respond in writing to customer complaints, regulatory agencies or member of the business community
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations, to customers, clients and other employees in the organization
• Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups and/or boards of directors
• Strong Collaboration and Influencing Skills
• Change management
• Advanced knowledge of econometric/regression-based modeling

Education and/or Experience

* Degree in statistics, mathematics or economics; Advanced degree is a plus

• Minimum 8-10 years combined relevant financial services, bank enterprise and operational risk and/or other industry enterprise and operational risk management experience
• Experience focused on banking and operational risk controls including Implementing Enterprise Risk Management program & Framework

Equal Employment Opportunity Information: Simmons First National Corporation and its subsidiaries are committed to a policy of equal employment with respect to a person's race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, covered veterans, military status, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected classifications. Simmons First National Corporation and its subsidiaries are committed to Affirmative Action Programs consisting of results-oriented procedures to ensure equal employment opportunities. These programs require positive action in lieu of neutral non-discrimination and merit hiring/performance policies.