Business Unit Risk Officer (On-site

Business Unit Risk Officer

The Business Unit Risk Officer serves as a first-line risk leader and trusted advisor to Business Unit leadership, helping the business identify, understand, manage, and escalate risk in alignment with enterprise expectations. This role executes, facilitates, and leads risk program requirements, including issues management, RCSA, KRIs, risk appetite, control assessments, emerging risk monitoring, and remediation oversight. The role is expected to connect risk insights to business outcomes, translate complex risk requirements into practical execution, and provide clear challenge, advice, and reporting across assigned Business Units.

The Business Unit Risk Officer I supports assessment and documentation of processes, risks, controls, and resiliency dependencies, identifies control weaknesses or failed processes, and helps drive timely, effective remediation.

Role is NOT remote. In office expectations are 5 days per week.

For this opportunity:
Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration-related support for this position (including, but not limited to H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN-1 or TN-2, E-3, O-1, or future sponsorship for U.S. lawful permanent residence status.)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide risk advice and serve as a trusted first-line risk leader and Subject Matter Expert (SME) to assigned Business Unit across all risk types, promoting strong risk ownership, compliance with applicable regulations, and effective execution of enterprise risk program requirements.
• Translate enterprise resiliency, risk, and control requirements into practical business routines, execution plans, evidence expectations, and leader-ready insights.
• Assess and advise on resiliency, operational, technology, third-party, data, workforce, facilities, and process risks that could impact business execution, client outcomes, or operational readiness.
• Partner with Enterprise Resiliency, second line risk, technology, operations, and business leaders to identify control gaps, provide effective challenge, support issue remediation, and strengthen preparedness across resiliency and risk programs.
• Aggregate, monitor, and communicate risk insights through governance routines, executive reporting, testing outcomes, emerging risk monitoring, and timely escalation of material concerns, with a focus on clear "so what" implications for business leaders.
• Partner with teammates across assigned business areas to identify, escalate, and remediate risk and control gaps, driving accountability, sustainable fixes, and alignment with Enterprise Risk Management programs and policy.
• Assess, test, and effectively challenge assigned Business Units to support self-identification of control weaknesses, evaluate remediation quality, and confirm issues are resolved in a timely and sustainable manner.
• Aggregate, synthesize, and communicate risk results in plain language so stakeholders understand risk themes, business impacts, decisions needed, and escalation points for Business Unit leaders and committees.
• Monitor and report on emerging risks that may impact Business Unit partners and Truist, using data, stakeholder feedback, issue trends, control results, and external/internal signals to support proactive risk management.
• Oversee risk appetite and business risk strategy by supporting risk identification, acceptance, prioritization, escalation, and decision-making for current and emerging risks.
• Understand Business Unit goals, priorities, and transformation activity; provide risk management expertise on strategic initiatives; and bring forward practical solutions that balance risk reduction, business execution, and client impact.
• Other activities and special projects, as deemed required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or related field, or equivalent education and related training.
• 6+ years of experience in a financial institution with emphasis on risk management or equivalent work experience and training, and/or equivalent education, training and experience.
• Experience in compliance and…