Operational Risk Analyst I

Who we are: Cornerstone Capital Bancorp, Inc., headquartered in Houston, is a Texas-based financial services company dedicated to helping families, businesses, and communities thrive. Through its primary subsidiary, Cornerstone Capital Bank, the organization operates a community and business banking franchise alongside a premier national home lending, servicing, and home insurance platform-based financial services company dedicated to helping families, businesses, and communities thrive. Guided by a core Mission, Vision and Convictions statement, Cornerstone operates 17 full-service banking locations across major Texas markets and more than 150 mortgage offices nationwide.  The company has served nearly 700,000 customers through its family of brands, including Cornerstone Home Lending, Roscoe Bank, Peoples Bank, Cornerstone Servicing, and Cornerstone Insurance. Supported by 1,600 team members, Cornerstone is consistently recognized as a Fortune-certified Great Place to Work® and a Top Workplace. Formed through the combination of Cornerstone Home Lending and The Roscoe State Bank, Cornerstone brings more than a century of experience and is the highest-capitalized new bank in Texas history. We honor God by using our talents to make a positive difference in the lives of our Team Members, Clients, Shareholders, Communities, and the People who provide services to us. Who we are looking for: As a key member of the second line of defense, the Operational Risk Analyst supports the bank’s enterprise-wide operational risk management framework — providing independent oversight, challenge, and advisory support to business lines including mortgage production, servicing, and support functions. This role offers meaningful exposure to a broad set of risk disciplines and is well-suited for a detail-oriented professional who thrives at the intersection of risk, process, and regulatory compliance in a community bank environment. What you’ll do: * Participates in the application of operational risk policies, technology, and tools, and governance processes to create lasting solutions for minimizing losses from failed internal processes, inadequate controls, and emerging risks. * Contributes to risk assessments and drives actions to address the root causes that persistently lead to operational risk losses by challenging both historical and proposed practices.

• Ensures policies and procedures meet regulatory and business obligations.
• Utilizes MIS to monitor exceptions; and where necessary perform root cause

analysis.

• Identifies issues, oversees remediation efforts, and escalate.
• Perform business analyses of related control frameworks.

What you’ll need to be successful: Success in this job relies on your time management skills, organization, and positive attitude. In addition, you’ll need the following qualifications:

• 2-5 years of related experience
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

skills * Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to facilitate discussions * Ability to quickly grasp and master new concepts / requirements and related product / functional knowledge

• Ability to create and deliver presentations to management and/or stakeholders
• Ability to work under pressure and manage tight deadlines or unexpected

changes in expectations or requirements

• Willingness to ask questions, challenge the status quo and seek out answers
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various

analyses or reviews

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong computer and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently with a multi-level team
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)

What we offer: Because we recognize and reward hard work, we offer a competitive salary, Medical, Dental, Vision, Accidental Death, Long-Term Disability, Short-Term Disability, FSA, HSA, 401K, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and Paid Parental Leave benefits, as well as the opportunity for a performance-based bonus based on position and department. What to do next: If Cornerstone sounds like the place for you (and if you have the qualifications, drive, and passion to match), we invite you to become a member of our winning team! And remember, once you're part of our Cornerstone family, we'll continue to invest in you as a valuable asset in our company. As many of our team members can tell you, there's something special about working at Cornerstone.