Enterprise Risk Management, VP

A leading financial services organization is seeking a senior risk leader to help advance its enterprise risk program and strengthen risk governance across the organization. This individual will serve as a key partner to executive leadership, overseeing core enterprise risk disciplines while ensuring risk practices remain aligned with strategic priorities, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices. This role offers a blend of strategic influence and hands-on execution, with responsibility for enhancing risk frameworks, driving enterprise-wide assessments, monitoring emerging risks, and delivering meaningful risk insights to senior management and governance committees. The successful candidate will also lead a team of risk professionals and play a central role in fostering a strong risk culture across the organization. Overview A leading financial services organization is seeking a senior risk leader to help advance its enterprise risk program and strengthen risk governance across the organization. This individual will serve as a key partner to executive leadership, overseeing core enterprise risk disciplines while ensuring risk practices remain aligned with strategic priorities, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices. This role offers a blend of strategic influence and hands-on execution, with responsibility for enhancing risk frameworks, driving enterprise-wide assessments, monitoring emerging risks, and delivering meaningful risk insights to senior management and governance committees. The successful candidate will also lead a team of risk professionals and play a central role in fostering a strong risk culture across the organization. Key Responsibilities Lead the ongoing enhancement and governance of the enterprise risk management program. Establish and maintain enterprise-wide methodologies for identifying, assessing, monitoring, and reporting risk. Oversee risk appetite governance, including development, measurement, monitoring, and escalation processes. Direct enterprise reporting for executive management and governance committees, translating complex risk information into actionable insights. Manage and enhance key risk indicator (KRI) programs, ensuring meaningful risk metrics are in place across the organization. Provide oversight of issue management activities, including remediation tracking, root cause analysis, escalation procedures, and governance reporting. Guide enterprise risk assessment activities spanning operational, technology, vendor, product, and business process risks. Partner closely with business leaders to challenge risk assumptions, evaluate control effectiveness, and drive risk-informed decision making. Support risk and compliance transformation initiatives, including enhancements to governance, workflows, reporting, and risk technology platforms. Evaluate control environments and oversee independent assessments of control effectiveness. Monitor emerging operational and technology risks and assess their potential impact on the organization. Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the three lines of defense to ensure effective execution of risk management activities. Lead, mentor, and develop a team of risk professionals. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Risk Management, Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline. 10+ years of experience within Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk, or related second-line risk functions. Demonstrated experience designing or enhancing enterprise risk frameworks within a regulated financial services environment. Strong expertise in risk assessments, risk governance, issue management, control effectiveness reviews, and risk reporting. Experience working with risk technology platforms such as Archer, OpenPages, or similar GRC solutions. Excellent executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. Proven leadership experience managing and developing risk teams. Preferred Qualifications Advanced degree (MBA, Master\'s, or equivalent). Professional certifications such as FRM, PRM, CRISC, or similar. Experience supporting banking, payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure organizations. Exposure to technology risk, cyber risk, cloud environments, and information security risk management. Familiarity with agile delivery models and associated risk considerations. #J-18808-Ljbffr Selby Jennings