Enterprise Risk Management Intern

Who We Are

Cross River is a highly profitable, fast-growing financial technology company powering the future of financial services. Our comprehensive suite of innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, and lending products deliver financial services for millions of businesses and consumers around the globe. Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion. 

We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services. While our company has tripled in size over the last three years, our strong sense of purpose led Cross River to be named to American Banker’s list of Best Places to Work in Fintech for the last 6 years. The reason for this success is simple – our nimble and collaborative family culture lives in every member of our growing team. Together we are at the forefront of technology and innovation, and we invite passionate, collaborative, and motivated high performers to join our expanding team.

What We’re Looking For

Cross River is looking to hire new talent for our eight-week summer internship program beginning in June 2025. Cross River has developed a customized, project-based program where we strive to individualize each student’s experience based on their unique skill set and career choice.

Responsibilities:

• Learn key concepts of Banking, Fintech, and how Enterprise Risk Management enables key decision making of an organization.
• Apply key concepts learned to conduct research and gather data related to risk management activities across the enterprise through various systems and sources of record.
• Identify a project topic related to Enterprise Risk Management to leverage key concepts learned and apply in a practical manner at the conclusion of the internship. 
• Support the Enterprise and Third Party Risk Management Teams in reviews of key business and functional area’s policies and procedures to assist in verifying key controls.
• Support the Third Party Risk Management team on initiatives related to third-party reviews and contracts.

Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Administration, Legal or a related field.
• Ability to think critically and propose solutions to mitigate risks.
• Strong time management and ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to present findings and recommendations effectively.
• High attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment. 

This internship will have a hybrid schedule in our Fort Lee, NJ office.

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Hourly Rate: $15.00 - $25.00