Enterprise Risk Management – Senior Advisor
MidFirst BankMidFirst Bank occupies a unique position within the banking industry. With assets totaling $42.8 billion, MidFirst Bank is the largest privately owned bank in the United States. This combination of scale and private ownership enables us to deliver sophisticated products and services comparable to larger financial institutions while maintaining the personalized service, agility, and flexibility of a community bank.
Enterprise Risk ManagementThe Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) department provides independent oversight and strategic support for enterprise-wide risk management activities. ERM partners with business and functional leaders to promote a strong risk culture, effective governance, and sound decision-making across the organization.
ERM responsibilities include:
- Enterprise risk assessment development, implementation, and maintenance
- Risk advisory and consultation services
- Product and service change governance
- Model risk management oversight
- Coordination of regulatory agency relationships
- Board policy governance and administration
- Aggregation, analysis, and reporting of enterprise risks to senior leadership and the Risk Committee of the Board of Directors
- Serve as a trusted risk advisor to business and functional leaders, promoting effective risk management practices.
- Facilitate risk committees, RCSAs, risk event analyses, operational risk reporting, issue management, and remediation planning.
- Provide independent assessment of business risks, control effectiveness, and emerging risks.
- Partner with leadership to identify, assess, and address operational, compliance, strategic, and reputational risks.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of the Three Lines of Defense framework.
- Support governance activities and committee structures aligned with regulatory expectations.
- Build strong partnerships with Audit, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and business stakeholders.
- Develop recurring risk reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and KRIs.
- Analyze business processes, identify control gaps, and recommend improvements.
- Contribute to the continued maturation of the Bank’s enterprise risk management framework.
- Bachelor's degree required; relevant certifications are a plus.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex information, identify root causes, evaluate risks, and recommend practical solutions.
- Strong organizational, planning, and prioritization skills.
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- Ability to influence stakeholders, build consensus in a matrixed organization, and demonstrate strong leadership skills.
- Experience working with Legal, Compliance, Audit, Finance, Accounting, Credit, Technology, and Operational Risk teams.
- 7+ years of experience in risk management, audit, compliance, controls, legal, banking operations, consulting, or project management.
- Proficiency with reporting, analysis, and presentation tools, including Excel and PowerPoint.
- Demonstrated experience supporting risk management, internal controls, compliance, or audit functions.
- Demonstrated project management skills, including the ability to execute initiatives, manage timelines and deliverables, promote accountability, and build effective processes, partnerships, and solutions.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of experience in risk management, audit, compliance, controls, legal, banking operations, consulting, or project management
- Experience supporting risk management, internal controls, compliance, or audit functions
- Experience working with Legal, Compliance, Audit, Finance, Accounting, Credit, Technology, and Operational Risk teams
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, including root-cause analysis and risk evaluation
- Strong organizational, planning, prioritization, and multitasking skills
- Interpersonal and relationship management skills
- Ability to influence stakeholders, build consensus, and demonstrate leadership in a matrixed organization
- Proficiency with reporting, analysis, and presentation tools, including Excel and PowerPoint
- Project management skills, including managing timelines, deliverables, accountability, processes, partnerships, and solutions
- Relevant professional certifications
MidFirst Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about MidFirst Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by MidFirst Bank.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, and vision coverage are available to eligible full‑time and part‑time employees, with company‑paid long‑term disability and an EAP included. Medical plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield and wellness incentives that can lower premiums are highlighted.
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Retirement Support — A company 401(k) match with a clear formula and a defined vesting schedule provides meaningful retirement support. Eligibility and enrollment timing are specified, reinforcing predictable access to the plan.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, paid sick leave, and paid holidays are emphasized, with a paid community service day also referenced. Time‑off offerings are portrayed as generous across materials.
MidFirst Bank Insights
What We Do
MidFirst Bank occupies a rare position within the banking industry. With $41.2 billion in assets, MidFirst Bank is the largest privately owned bank in the country. This combination of size and private ownership provides our customers with a special brand of banking. MidFirst Bank offers a full range of personal, commercial, trust, private banking and mortgage banking products and services. MidFirst is a strong commercial real estate lender and a major servicer of mortgage loans nationally. As a private business ourselves, we understand the unique needs of each business community we serve at each of our locations in Arizona (Phoenix), California (Los Angeles, Orange County, Santa Barbara, San Diego), Colorado (Boulder, Denver, Edwards, Fort Collins), Nevada (Las Vegas), Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Western Oklahoma), Texas (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio) and Utah (Salt Lake City). Additionally, MidFirst Bank has commercial lending offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New York City, Orlando, Raleigh and Southern California. We serve Southern California through 1st Century Bank, a division of MidFirst Bank. We also operate MidFirst Business Credit as a subsidiary of MidFirst Bank. MidFirst Bank provides services that compete with larger banks, while the people and culture truly define the MidFirst Bank difference. MidFirst provides exceptional financial and deeply committed customer service. Team members are loyal in their character, loyal in their personal commitment to customers, and loyal to always doing the right thing. MidFirst customers can always count on working with thoughtful, intelligent, honest professionals who are true to their financial goals. MidFirst Bank is a strong supporter of the communities they serve, investing time and money in important educational, charitable and civic organizations. Copyright © 2025 MidFirst Bank. All rights reserved. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.
