Enterprise Risk Management Analyst

Job Title: Enterprise Risk Management Analyst

Location: Taylor TX 76574

Duration: 24 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Hybrid

Payrate:$ 45.00 - 70.00/hr.

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.

Job Description:

• The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Analyst supports the organization's risk management program by identifying, analyzing, and quantifying risks that could impact strategic objectives.
• Working closely with risk owners and business units across the enterprise, the ERM Analyst provides data-driven insights and recommendations that enable informed, risk-aware decision-making at all levels of the organization.

JOB DUTIES:

Level 1:

• Assist in risk identification sessions by gathering information from business unit stakeholders and documenting findings.
• Populate and maintain the enterprise risk register, ensuring accuracy and completeness of risk entries.
• Conduct preliminary qualitative risk assessments using established frameworks and templates.
• Collect and organize quantitative and qualitative data to support risk scoring and heat map development.
• Perform basic data validation to ensure integrity of risk data used in analyses.
• Prepare draft sections of routine risk reports and compile data for management dashboards.
• Format and proof presentations and documents prior to distribution to stakeholders.
• Participate in risk assessment workshops and document discussion outcomes and action items.
• Track status of risk mitigation action items and follow up with risk owners on outstanding deliverables.
• Maintain monitoring schedules and communicate upcoming review deadlines to relevant stakeholders.
• Support ERM team projects by completing clearly defined tasks within established timelines.
• Research industry trends and regulatory changes to provide background for risk reviews.

Level 2:

• Independently facilitate risk identification sessions and workshops with business unit personnel.
• Conduct comprehensive qualitative and quantitative risk assessments for assigned business areas.
• Develop and execute quantitative models to estimate risk exposure, probability distributions, and potential financial impact.
• Design and maintain KRI frameworks and thresholds in collaboration with risk owners.
• Perform scenario analysis and stress testing to evaluate organizational resilience under various risk conditions.
• Prepare high-quality risk reports and executive presentations translating complex risk data into clear management insights.
• Serve as the day-to-day ERM point of contact for assigned business units, building trusted relationships with risk owners.
• Coordinate timing and logistics for risk assessment activities across multiple business units simultaneously.
• Collaborate with internal audit, compliance, legal, and finance teams to share risk intelligence.
• Partner with risk owners to develop practical mitigation plans aligned with organizational risk tolerance.
• Monitor mitigation action effectiveness and escalate unresolved or emerging risks to ERM leadership.
• Manage small-to-medium ERM projects from initiation through completion, including planning, stakeholder coordination, and status reporting.

Level Senior:

• Lead enterprise-wide risk identification and assessment initiatives, designing methodologies appropriate to the scope and complexity of each engagement.
• Analyze strategic, operational, financial, and reputational risks, including interdependencies and cascading effects.
• Evaluate organizational risk tolerance levels in partnership with leadership, translating concepts into actionable thresholds.
• Design and oversee sophisticated quantitative models, sensitivity analyses, and value-at-risk calculations.
• Lead scenario planning and stress testing exercises, linking risk outcomes to business performance metrics.
• Own development of senior leadership and board-level risk reporting, ensuring content is accurate, insightful, and decision-relevant.
• Act as primary ERM liaison for senior business unit leaders, providing subject matter expertise and strategic risk guidance.
• Lead cross-functional working groups for enterprise risk projects, coordinating across business units, corporate functions, and external advisors.
• Advise senior risk owners on mitigation strategy design, ensuring plans are measurable and aligned with strategic priorities.
• Contribute to the development and periodic review of enterprise risk policy and supporting procedures.
• Mentor and provide quality assurance review for other team members.
• Lead complex, multi-workstream ERM projects, managing timelines, resources, and stakeholder expectations.

Level Lead:

• Lead the strategic direction and continuous evolution of the ERM program, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and governance standards.
• Own the design and implementation of ERM frameworks, methodologies, and processes across the enterprise.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex, high-impact, or cross-enterprise risk issues requiring senior judgment.
• Represent ERM in executive forums and risk committee meetings
• Provide authoritative analysis on strategic risks, advising executive leadership on risk implications for organizational strategy.
• Lead integration of risk intelligence into strategic planning, capital allocation, and major investment decisions.
• Lead development and periodic review of enterprise risk policy, procedures, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Partner with legal, compliance, and internal audit to coordinate risk oversight and mitigation plans
• Build and maintain executive-level relationships, serving as a trusted advisor on risk strategy and organizational resilience.
• Provide leadership to the ERM analyst team, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Sponsor and oversee major ERM program initiatives, managing resource allocation and delivery across all workstreams.

EXPERIENCE:

• Level 1: Requires no minimum job related work experience in excess of degree requirements
• Level 2: Requires minimum 2 years job related work experience in excess of degree requirements
• Senior: Requires minimum 5 years job related work experience in excess of degree requirements
• Lead: Requires minimum 8 years job related work experience in excess of degree requirements

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's Degree : Finance, Engineering, Economics or related field (Required)
• or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required

CERTIFICATION:

• PMP Project Management Professional (Preferred)
• CQRM Certified Quantitative Risk Management (Preferred)

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.