Cyber Risk Senior Lead

Job title: Cyber Risk Senior Lead

The position is described below.

Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The Cyber Risk Senior Lead is a senior first-line risk professional responsible for identifying, assessing, and managing complex cyber risk. This highly visible role partners with technology, cybersecurity, risk, and audit leaders to strengthen risk decisions, improve the control environment, and drive measurable risk reduction within a large financial institution.

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 & Responsibilities:

1. Identify and assess cyber risk across strategic initiatives, technology changes, projects, operations, and incidents, ensuring material risks and control impacts are understood, addressed, and escalated appropriately.

2. Evaluate cyber processes, risks, controls, policies, standards, exceptions, assessments, and metrics to determine the effectiveness of risk mitigation and identify opportunities to strengthen the control environment.

3. Lead the management of cyber issues from identification through remediation and closure, including risk rating, remediation plan review, execution monitoring, evidence evaluation, reporting, and escalation.

4. Maintain an integrated view of cyber risk and develop clear, executive-level reporting on risk exposure, control performance, issues, trends, and required decisions.

5. Support risk and control self-assessments, regulatory examinations, audits, and cyber assessments by providing risk expertise, coordinating evidence, and partnering effectively across the first, second, and third lines of defense.

6. Monitor emerging cyber and technology risks and provide senior-level guidance on their potential impact to the organization’s technology environment, control framework, and business objectives.

General Responsibilities:

Risk Culture & Operational Integration

1. Advise business managers and leadership on strategic execution of enterprise risk programs and governance practices, providing guidance on the identification, assessment, and escalation of operational, control, and regulatory risks within assigned business areas.
2. Shape resolution of risk and governance issues by influencing business ownership and accountability, reinforcing governance expectations and enterprise risk requirements through strategic stakeholder engagement and risk-based guidance.

Governance, Reporting & Leadership Support 3. Advise on governance forums, reporting processes, and escalation routines, providing expert analysis and interpretation of KRIs, operational risk metrics, and governance reporting to inform leadership decision-making and enhance oversight 4. Guide the development and enhancement of governance deliverables and reporting outputs, including governance materials, action tracking, and remediation oversight, ensuring alignment with enterprise requirements and enabling accurate, timely insights for stakeholders.

Business Coordination & Operational Support 5. Facilitate coordination of governance activities, stakeholder communications, and enterprise partner engagement, including collaboration with ECCO, Compliance, Audit, Legal, and other governance functions to support aligned risk management and oversight. 6. Guide audit, regulatory, and enterprise readiness efforts, providing subject matter expertise for examinations, reviews, remediation activities, and operational readiness for business initiatives and governance programs.

Business-Specific Risk Support & Execution 7. Advise on enterprise risk program activities, including RCSA, issue management, risk monitoring, and remediation tracking, providing insight and interpretation across supported business areas. 8. Guide implementation of risk management requirements and governance practices, offering risk-based input on operational monitoring, business-specific governance needs, and corrective action planning to strengthen overall risk posture.

Required Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Risk Management, Economics, Public Administration, or equivalent professional experience
2. 7+ years of experience in operational risk management, governance, compliance, audit, controls, enterprise risk management, or related disciplines
3. Understanding of operational risk management frameworks, governance processes, issue management activities, and remediation practices
4. Experience supporting governance reporting, audits, examinations, and risk management programs
5. Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills
6. Ability to manage multiple priorities and support governance execution activities
7. Strong organizational and problem-solving capabilities

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Extensive cyber risk management experience within a large, complex financial institution, preferably in a first-line risk role.
2. Experience working across and collaborating with first, second, and third lines of defense, with a strong understanding of their respective responsibilities, interactions, and governance expectations.
3. Deep knowledge of cyber processes, risks, controls and metrics associated with data protection, cyber defense, security architecture.
4. Experience leading cyber risk assessments, issues, controls, metrics, policy adherence, risk and control self assessments, regulatory examinations, audits, technology changes, and incident-related risk analysis.
5. Demonstrated ability to translate complex cyber and technology risks into clear business impacts, executive-level reporting, and actionable risk decisions.
6. Advanced professional certification such as CRISC, CISM, CISSP, CGEIT, CCSP, or an equivalent cyber risk, security, or governance credential.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

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