Lead - GRC

Job Summary : -

• The Lead, GRC will support the design, execution, and maturity of Bread Financial's Enterprise Risk Management framework.
• This role will advance enterprise risk governance, risk and control framework alignment, RCSA and control data quality, risk aggregation, reporting, and decision-ready insights for senior leaders and governance committees.
• Partnering with business, risk, governance, and technology stakeholders, the Lead GRC will help strengthen risk taxonomy, control integration, issue visibility, and enterprise-wide risk transparency.
• The role will also support GRC platform enhancements, backlog prioritization, optimization, and AI-enabled capabilities that improve risk assessment workflows, monitoring, reporting, and regulatory alignment, including OCC expectations.
• Through these efforts, the Lead GRC will mature ERM practices, improve governance discipline, and enable a more integrated, data-driven risk management ecosystem

Essential Job Functions : -

• ERM Framework, Governance & Program Maturity: Advance ERM framework components across GRC platforms, risk and control framework, risk assessments, issue themes and governance reporting. Improve risk data quality, consistency, transparency, and traceability to support oversight and regulatory expectations. - (35%)
• AI-Enabled ERM Modernization & Risk Assessment Automation: Lead Gen AI-enabled and agentic capabilities that modernize ERM and GRC processes, including risk assessments, control mapping, monitoring, issue identification, reporting insights, and workflow automation aligned to governance and ERM priorities. - (35%)
• Risk Analytics, Reporting & GRC Platform Optimization: Enhance dashboards, analytics, and reporting to improve risk visibility, aggregation, issue themes, trends, and decision-making. Partner with technology teams to improve GRC usability, workflow design, data integrity, and scalability. - (15%)
• Stakeholder Engagement, Risk Governance & Technology Partnership: Partner with business, risk, governance, and technology stakeholders to strengthen ERM execution, risk culture, and adoption of standard practices. Communicate risk insights, priorities, and AI-enabled capabilities. - (15%)

Minimum Qualifications : -

• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting, Risk Management, Information Technology, or related field of study or equivalent, relevant work experience
• 8-10 years of experience in Enterprise Risk Management, IT Operations, Internal Audit, Compliance, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications : -

• 10-13 years work experience

Skills : -

• Risk Assessments
• Risk IT Framework
• Regulatory Risk Assessment
• Risk Control Self Assessment
• Control Procedures
• Internal Control Testing
• Dashboard Reporting
• Executive Presentations