U.S. Bank

Capital Stress Testing Program Specialist

U.S. Bank$92K — $109K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years in program management or related fields
  • Experience with integrated program planning, calendars, and tracking
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Proven ability to work independently and drive cross-team collaboration
  • Commitment to a growth mindset and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

  • Create and manage stress testing calendars ensuring alignment across all workstreams
  • Build and maintain program trackers to provide visibility into milestones and deliverables
  • Deliver insightful reports to senior leadership on priorities and risks
  • Translate program data for actionable decision-making
  • Support onboarding/offboarding and coordinate timely audit requests
  • Facilitate the review of procedures and assist in documentation
  • Lead feedback collection to identify improvement opportunities

Benefits

  • Healthcare options including medical, dental, and vision
  • Life insurance coverage options
  • Disability insurance for short-term and long-term
  • Generous parental leave and pregnancy disability benefits
  • 401(k) with employer contributions toward retirement
  • Paid vacation that increases with tenure
  • 11 paid holidays per year
  • Adoption assistance program
  • Sick and safe leave accruals
Full Job Description
Job Description

The U.S. Bancorp Central Stress Testing Oversight (CSTO) team is seeking a candidate to join the program management team. This role supports the preparation and execution of stress testing and capital management activities in alignment with SR 15-19, adapting to evolving regulatory and leadership expectations.

This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining the core program infrastructure that enables successful execution of the stress testing cycle and other management requests. This includes developing integrated calendars, building and maintaining program plans and trackers, and delivering program reporting with insights. Together, these elements ensure the program remains aligned, on track, and positioned to deliver timely, decision-ready insights to senior management.

The role requires strong ownership, accountability, cross-team collaboration, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

Program Calendars
  • Create and communicate end-to-end stress testing calendars, including forecast production, review & challenge, and documentation timelines
  • Maintain alignment across calendars by identifying dependencies and sequencing across workstreams
  • Update and communicate calendar changes, ensuring impacted partners remain aligned on key deliverable expectations
  • Partner with teams to resolve timeline conflicts and downstream impacts

Program Planning, Tracking & Reporting
  • Build and maintain centralized program plans and trackers providing visibility into milestones, deliverables, and ownership
  • Deliver clear and concise reporting that enables senior leadership to understand priorities, risks, status, and key decisions
  • Translate program data into actionable insights to support informed decision-making
  • Leverage Workiva and AI capabilities to enhance reporting quality and efficiency
  • Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of program deliverables, ensuring timelines are met and risks and issues are proactively managed
  • Partner across teams to drive accountability and ensure timely completion of production and documentation deliverables

Ad Hoc Program Support
  • Support user access onboarding/offboarding and quarterly/annual access audits
  • Coordinate with partners to meet audit and regulatory requests timely
  • Coordinate with internal team to complete control audit requests timely
  • Coordinate annual procedure review and assist with procedure documentation as necessary
  • Facilitate coordination of meetings and supporting presentations
  • Lead post-cycle feedback collection and translate insights into actionable improvement plans
  • Communicate, monitor and drive closure of program action items and challenges


Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
  • Typically three or more years of related experience


Preferred Skills/Experience
  • Strong program management, planning, organization, and prioritization skills
  • Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and ability to work independently
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex information for senior leaders
  • Experience building and maintaining calendars, trackers, dashboards, program plans, or status reporting
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to drive accountability across teams
  • Adaptability in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with evolving priorities
  • Growth mindset with a desire to continuously learn and improve processes


The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Basic term and optional term life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law


Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $92,820.00 - $109,200.00

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

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