VP - Enterprise Risk Management - GM Financial Bank

Why GM Financial Bank

GM Financial Bank is a newly formed bank. Team members joining now will play a pivotal role in shaping the bank, which will offer auto finance and deposit products. Joining GM Financial Bank means an opportunity to help build a customer-focused bank from the ground up.

The Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) – Banking leads the development, maintenance and evolution of the bank’s risk framework to ensure alignment with regulatory standards and Board-approved policies. This leadership role oversees enterprise risk management activities, operational risk programs, model risk governance, and risk reporting to executive committees and the Board. The VP ERM partners across business lines to ensure the bank’s business activities remain aligned to strategy while strengthening controls, monitoring key risks, and supporting governance for long-term financial performance.

About the role:

ERM
•    Develop, maintain and evolve the bank’s ERM framework in alignment with FDIC regulatory guidance for large banks and board-approved policies
•    Lead risk assessments, risk inventory updates, and risk appetite calibration efforts
•    Develop and maintain Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and continuous monitoring.
•    Partner with business lines to document material risks, controls, and mitigation strategies
Operational Risk
•    Implement and manage the operational risk framework, including risk event capture, RCSA processes, and control testing
•    Conduct root-cause analyses of operational incidents and develop recommendations to strengthen controls
•    Oversee third-party vendor risk, operational resiliency, and information security risk programs in partnership with IT and bank lines of business
Model Risk
•    Implement and evolve bank model governance program that meets or exceeds the requirements of FDIC FIL 22-2017
•    Interface with parent company model governance team
Governance & Reporting
•    Prepare monthly and quarterly risk reporting for management ERM Committee and the Board of Directors
•    Maintain and update risk policies, charters, procedures and governance documentation
•    Support internal audit coordination and responses to regulatory and auditor requests
•    Perform other duties as assigned
•    Conform with all company policies and procedures