BRCO RISK PARTNER LEADThe Business Risk and Control Officers (BRCO) play a pivotal role in guiding the business to identify and understand risk exposures and the controls needed which are integral to reducing risk and safeguarding our customers and colleagues.
BRCOs are critical to the success of the Risk Management Lifecyle and play a role in Planning, Identifying, Assessing, Mitigating, Monitoring, and Reporting. BRCOs are members of the First Line of Defense (1LOD) who:
- Provide leadership and coaching to the 1LOD to proactively identify and effectively manage risks.
- Translate and educate 1LOD to enable and drive business relevant implementation of Second Line of Defense (2LOD) risk management frameworks, policies, taxonomies and inventories.
- Review, validate, and test 1LOD activities to ensure adequate control design and effective control operation.
- Provide credible challenge to 1LOD colleagues, ensuring safeguard and risk mitigation measures are upheld in decision making and adherence to 2LOD frameworks and policies prior to 2LOD review.
- Drive two-way collaboration across 1LOD and 2LOD; liaise between 1LOD and 2LOD to drive engagement throughout the risk management lifecycle.
- Collaborate and coordinate across the organization to help navigate and mitigate horizontal risk promoting resilience and ensuring safety and soundness.
- Document, aggregate and report risk in accordance with the risk management lifecycle.
- Engage with 1LOD on the development and design of implementing new controls as well as changes to existing processes.
- Develops options and actions for control owners to perform that will result in improved controls and greater control effectiveness.
- Monitors controls, including advising on appropriate monitoring structures and conducts thematic analysis providing insights on drivers of risk and emerging risks.
Job Responsibilities:Business PartnershipsDevelops and maintains partnerships with the Line of Business process owners to provide end-to-end thought leadership through strategic consulting and providing expertise in control design that can lead to early identification and sustainable mitigation of risks.
- Inquires about and builds deep familiarity with critical Line of Business processes to advise on controls.
- Drives a strong enterprise risk culture by fostering rigor and discipline focused on risk and compliance awareness, ethical business practices, transparency and escalation.
- Collaborates with and supports other BRCO team members to ensure a robust and comprehensive implementation of 2LOD frameworks within 1LOD.
- Depending on size of LOB and the number BRCO Risk Partners, may align support to specific leaders.
Design Controls- Engages in the development and design of implementation of new controls as well as changes to existing processes. Develops options and actions for control owners to perform that will result in improved controls and greater control effectiveness.
- Designs controls to fit for purpose, are relevant and primarily address the root causes of the risk, they should also be appropriate, covering the full extent and scope of the risk and its consequences, taking into consideration efficiency and cost-effectiveness as well as ensure they conform to relevant standards or regulatory requirements.
- Supports Line of Business process owners and ensures appropriate controls for new and changing processes are identified, risk assessed, documented, and implemented to mitigate risks and ensure all incremental risks have been captured.
- Drives adherence within 1LOD to enterprise-wide control design standards, policies, and frameworks.
- Engages with 2LOD to ensure risks and control results are in alignment with Comerica's objectives, all risk pillars, and risk appetite and provides 2LOD with regular updates.
Monitoring and Analyzing of Controls- Oversees Line of Business monitoring of controls, including advising on appropriate monitoring structures * Performs validation to demonstrate the remediation has effectively address root cause of issue, is effective and aligned with regulatory/audit expectations.
- Conducts thematic analysis providing insights on drivers of risk and emerging risks.
Control Assessment Participation- Participates in various control assessment processes (e.g., RCSA) and supports/advises on reviewing and responding to control testing results and monitoring.
Other duties as assigned 
