ABOUT VARO

Varo is a bank for all of us. We're all digital, mission-driven, FDIC-insured, and designed for the way you live.

We're on a mission to bring financial inclusion and opportunity to all hard-working Americans. Through our mobile app, we offer premium bank accounts that have no minimum balance requirement or monthly account fees, high-interest savings accounts, short term lending and solutions to help customers stretch their paycheck, build credit and start saving. Our tech-first products are designed to make money work for everyone and help customers and communities build greater financial resiliency.

Varo is distinct from other fintechs: we've made history as the first and only consumer fintech to be granted a full national bank charter by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

Varo Bank represents the evolution of a new generation of banks that are born from innovation and built on technology to empower consumers and businesses.

Our team combines the best of both consumer tech and banking, and we’re wildly passionate about helping our customers. Our teams are based in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. Privately held, we've raised over $419M to date from leading institutional investors and strategic partners including Warburg Pincus, The Rise Fund / TPG Growth, Gallatin Point Capital, Harbourvest Partners, and Progressive Insurance.

Varo is entrepreneurial, collaborative, enthusiastic, customer-oriented, fast-paced, and multicultural. This is an open and relatively flat organization that puts an emphasis on collaboration, sharing ideas and information. For a relatively early stage company, Varo is grounded in a strong set of values and takes pride in the diversity of its employees and board. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Administrator position is an important role in our Risk team at Varo and will report to the Risk Platform Manager. The Risk Platform team manages the suite of tools used across Risk Management. This role will be responsible for the design, implementation and user support for the GRC RSA Archer platform and other Risk tools and reporting functions. This position offers the ability to work across the various risk functions, interact with senior leaders and business partners across the Firm to help define Archer to solve real business challenges and deliver measurable benefits for risk management.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

• Administer the GRC RSA Archer platform, facilitate defining business requirements, process design and solution configuration.
• Evolve and support the GRC platform, establishing an environment that promotes continuous process improvement. Functionality to be built includes risk and control assessments, information security and policy governance. 
• Define and execute on improvement projects that aim at user experience, enhanced functionality, data management and reporting.
• Identify future functionality for the GRC tool and drive the project plan for completion of a bank ready GRC system.
• Manage the ERM WatchTower tool for measuring key metrics across Risk 
• Develop business intelligence reporting functionality to support the risk management analytics and reporting requirements of Risk and lead that function once it is stood up.
• Collaborate\partner with all business units to integrate risk requirements into their processes and culture.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES THAT'LL HELP YOU BE GREAT

• Ability to communicate\collaborate effectively with team members, internal customers, senior management and the board
• Knowledge of risk data analytics and business intelligence frameworks
• Implementing new systems in the risk domain
• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience working in multiple data environments, including cloud
• Extensive experience working with banking regulatory requirements, particularly OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve Board
• Experience reporting\presenting to the senior management

THE THREE SKILLS THAT MATTER MOST

Nobody can be great at everything, but we’re looking for candidates who are extraordinary at:

• Passion for innovation and execution with a growth mindset approach
• 3-5 years of GRC Archer systems experience with a financial institution
• 3-5 years of risk and data analytics experience with a financial institution

OTHER NICE TO HAVES

• A very high level of professional integrity, intellectual curiosity
• Passion for and dedication to mastering the details of any project
• Experience managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, high volume environment
• Tenacity, resiliency, can-do attitude and game for any task
• Able to adapt to quick changes in direction
• Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and thought-leadership

CULTURAL ALIGNMENT

Varo is entrepreneurial, collaborative, enthusiastic, customer-oriented, fast-paced, and multicultural. This is an open and relatively flat organization that puts an emphasis on collaboration, sharing ideas and information. For a relatively early stage company, Varo is grounded in a strong set of values and takes pride in the diversity of its employees. 

OUR CORE VALUES

Customers First: Understand the problems our customers are trying to solve. Respond with a sense of urgency. Build relationships that result in loyalty. Be data and insights-driven. Test everything. Achieve results through strong execution. Build a product people love. Assess new initiatives with the customers’ interest in mind. Act with empathy. 

Take Ownership: Bias towards action. Have high standards. Be accountable for the results of your work, our product, our company. Trust others to own it.

Respect: Treat others how you want to be treated. Listen first before being heard. Speak the truth even when it's not easy. Assume best intentions. Bring your full self to work.

Stay Curious: Ask why. Dare to make things better. Learn something new each day (even from mistakes). Be open to growth. Develop creative solutions.

Make it Better: Think big. Set high goals. Work towards long term value rather than short term wins. Create change. Be resilient.

Varo is an equal opportunity employer. Varo embraces diversity and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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