Senior Associate Governance & Communications

Job Summary

The Enterprise Delivery Office (EDO) owns intake execution and governance of enterprise initiatives for the Bread Financial. The Governance & Standards team exists to protect and accelerate enterprise delivery by establishing strong standards providing reliable insights and ensuring continuous audit readiness across the EDO. This role will play a critical role in establishing routines and processes across the EDO by supporting the organizations initiative governance practices reporting process documentation and communications.

Essential Job Functions

• Accountable for audits and overall governance of initiatives to ensure seamless execution. Ensure cadence plan for regular reviews and engagement from leaders to ensure successful reporting risk and mitigation call outs. This includes validating Complexity Scorecards to adhere to Operating model standards. - (40%)
• Assist with developing business dashboards for senior leadership deliverables. Prepare internal/external presentations on book of work performance process and performance opportunities and key wins. - (25%)
• Serve as an active and valued partner to value stream teams stakeholders and the EDO organization by championing process and supporting the Operating model. Process expertise and continuous training for the organization will be required to ensure consistency in the inputs and outputs of the initiative lifecycle. - (15%)
• Work collaboratively on continuous improvement of processes to support department key performance indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) goal impacts. - (10%)
• Support culture and engagement through execution of various activities including but not limited to ACT survey feedback action plans and results culture committee and associate events management. - (10%)

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• 2-3 years experience in a relevant business environment
• 2-3 years experience with Project Management process improvement and quality assurance processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Business Marketing or related field of study
• 3 years Project Management experience
• Experience in retail financial services or information technology files with a waterfall and agile methodology background
• PMP Certification
• Familiarity with business law/ business governance
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma
• Experience with FDIC or compliance audits

Skills

• Process Governance
• Business Management
• Process Efficiencies
• Process Improvements
• Microsoft Office
• Project Management

Reports To: Senior Manager and above

Direct Reports: 0

Work Environment

• Normal office environment. (Remote or Hybrid) 3 to 4 days per month are required in office if within 60 miles of a posted Bread Financial location.

Travel

• Ability to travel up to 5% annually

Physical and Mental Requirements

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily and meet the physical mental and work environment requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions absent undue hardship.

• Communicate/Hearing
• Communicate/Talking
• Stationary Position/Seated
• Typing/Writing
• Maintain focus in high pressure or fast-paced work environment

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

Salary Range (unless otherwise noted below):

$71500.00 - $114400.00

Full Salary Range for position:

California: $82200.00 - $143000.00 Colorado: $71500.00 - $125800.00 New York: $78700.00 - $143000.00 Washington: $78700.00 - $131600.00 Maryland: $78700.00 - $125800.00 Washington DC: $82200.00 - $131600.00 Illinois: $71500.00 - $125800.00 New Jersey: $82200.00 - $131600.00 Vermont: $71500.00 - $114400.00 Ohio: $71500.00 - $114400.00 Maine: $71500.00 - $114400.00 Connecticut: $78700.00 - $125800.00 Virginia: $71500.00 - $114400.00

The actual base pay within this range may be dependent upon many factors which may include but are not limited to work location education experience and skills.

You must be work authorized in the United States on a full time basis without the need for any sponsorship now or in the future from any employer or organization. The Company cannot offer employment to F-1 (student) visa holders.

Bread Financial offers medical prescription drug dental vision and other voluntary benefits (including basic and optional life insurance supplemental medical plans and short and long-term disability) to eligible associates (regular full-time associates scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more) and their spouses/domestic partners and child(ren) under the age of 26. New associate elected coverage begins on date of hire (with the exception of disability coverage which has a 6-month waiting period). Six weeks of 100% paid parental leave for eligible parents is available after a 180-day waiting period. Hired associates can immediately enroll in Bread Financials 401(k) plan.

All associates receive 11 paid holidays. Associates have discretion in managing their time away from work through the Flexible Time Off (FTO) program and may need to notify and receive approval from their manager prior to taking the time off. Associates (except those located in Illinois) receive 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time (PSST) upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year. Illinois associates receive 40 hours of Illinois PSST upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year and 40 hours of Illinois Paid Leave upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year. Illinois Paid Leave must be used before associates in Illinois will be approved to take FTO.

Hired associates will be able to elect the purchase company stock during offering periods in June and December. You will be eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance.

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About Bread Financial

At Bread Financial youll have the opportunity to grow your career give back to your community and be part of our award-winning culture. Weve been consistently recognized as a best place to work nationally and in many markets and were proud to promote an environment where you feel appreciated accepted valued and fulfilledboth personally and professionally. Bread Financial supports the overall wellness of our associates with a diverse suite of benefits and offers boundless opportunities for career development and non-traditional career progression.

Bread Financial(NYSE: BFH) is a tech-forward financial services company that provides simple personalized payment lending and saving solutions to millions of U.S. payment solutions deliver growth for some of the most recognized brands in travel & entertainment health & beauty technology electronics jewelry home and specialty apparel through ourco-brand and private label credit cards and pay-over-time products providing choice and value to our shared we offer Bread Financial general purpose credit cards and saving products that empower our customers and their passions for a better life.

Bread Financial proudly marks 30 years of success in 2026. To learn more about our global associates our performance and our sustainability progressvisit follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn.

• Bread Financial offers competitive pay a comprehensive selection of benefit options including 401(k).

• The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Any applicant offered employment will be required to establish that they are legally authorized to work in the United States for the Company.

• The Company participates in E-Verify.

• The Company will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable federal state and local laws including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the New York City Fair Chance Act. Applicants with criminal histories are encouraged to apply.

• The Company complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as amended and all applicable state/local laws. The Company will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process. Applicants with disabilities may contact the Company to request and arrange for accommodations. If you need assistance to accommodate a disability you may request an accommodation at any time. Please contact the Recruiting Team at .

Job Family:

Project Management

Job Type:

Regular