Staci Payant

About Staci Payant

27 years financial services, fraud, risk and Compliance experience with 24 years management experience. Responsible for Enterprise Non-Financial Operational Risk testing and frameworks team. Implementation of Risk taxonomies. Identify test objectives, collaborate with technology partners on data science elements for test sampling methodology. Oversight of quality assurance processes and governance.Communicate exceptions to Risk Partners providing supporting documentation of testing results for reference in development and implementation of remediation plans with the 1st line to achieve excellence in efficiency, capacity, process, technology, governance, strategy and compliance. Plan and execute testing for validation of remediation efforts and closure of outstanding audit/exam findings. Ensure results are concise, clear and presented in a professional manner. Department owner/administrator for technological applications (SharePoint/Power BI/Jira/Confluence/Agile). Work to identify continuous enhancements including reporting dashboards and metrics creation and deployment. Ongoing monitoring of system performance, layout, issue and error resolution, reconciliations, documentary repository oversight and bi-annual user access certification reviews and approval. Manage user access request to systems as required approver. Coordinate and document all UAT and remediation testing on new updates/changes to tech applications.Identify tests where automation opportunities exist working in partnership with data partners. Manage data file impact to technological applications performance and capacity. Tagged for special projects across Risk Management groups with high priority and confidentiality. Assisted Model Risk team with mapping, analysis and reviews of findings/controls in GRC. Promoted reports created to global levels for ease of access across Model Risk. SOC and SOX control validation and assessments.ACFE Advisory Council Member. Specialties: Mgmt/Leadership, Enterprise Risk Testing (Non-Financial Risk, Operational-Compliance/WM), department technology admin/liaison, Fraud prevention, Fraud solutions, Regulatory and Compliance (BSA), Investigations, R&D, Training facilitator, budget/audit reviews, Strategy, procedural assessments. Risk control testing evaluation and assessment. Training development. Expert witness.

Experience

1. Enterprise Risk Testing Manager-svp

   Regions Bank

   Jul 2024 — Present · Birmingham, AL, US

   Manage Enterprise wide Non-Financial Operational Risk Testing, including but not limited to controls testing for Cyber testing, 1st Line Validation, Business Led Third Party and Third Party Collections. Liaison for data sampling methodology request reviews and automation analysis. Department designer and administrator of SharePoint site. Manage a team of four (4) testing analysts. Attend and/or lead various testing touchpoint meetings and Compliance/Fed meetings. Represent Enterprise Risk Testing (ERT) as training facilitator, developer and mentor. Provide reporting via presentations as requested or Power BI through dashboard creation. Staff management and talent development. Monitor testing capacity and prioritization with risk partners. Promote staff opportunities for growth and lead volunteer events.

Education

• Jeff State Community College

  Business

  1988 — 1990

Skills

• Commercial Banking
• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Aml
• Leadership
• Legal Liaison
• Credit Risk
• Security
• Investigative Reporting
• Commercial Lending
• Private Investigations
• Business Development
• Operational Risk
• Executive Reporting
• Management
• Fraud Detection
• Deliverables
• Anti Money Laundering
• Customer Experience
• Fraud Prevention
• Banking
• Risk Management
• Budgets
• Fraud
• Training
• Credit Cards
• Financial Risk
• Payment Card Processing
• Compliance
• Online Fraud
• Recruiting
• Staff Development
• Relationship Management
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Mobile Payments
• Strategic Planning
• Financial Analysis
• Treasury Management
• Retail Banking