Analyst III - Risk - Akron FirstEnergy Headquarters

Responsibilities

• Support and/or lead portions of the enterprise risk assessment, which is an annual exercise to work across all of FE to identify and assess the top strategic risks to the business and provide assurance that they are managed.
• This team executes the annual risk assessment through both a bottom-up and top-down approach to assess risks, pressure-test mitigation plans, and determine the overall risk profile of FE.
• Support and/or lead Risk Reviews of prioritized enterprise risks which will deep-dive the most important drivers of these risks, identify current and potential mitigation plans, and determine if there are gaps to exploit new opportunities.
• Perform risk projects to support business units and senior management to continue to manage enterprise risks by producing insights for the business as to how to best manage risks and capture opportunities on enterprise topics.
• Support and/or lead the enterprise risk management program within one or more of FE’s business segments (OH, PA, NJ, WV/MD, and/or FE Transmission) by working with risk owners within each of these segments to support FE’s “risk intelligence” and ability to manage risks.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to mature the enterprise risk management program to meet the needs of FE’s business units and provide services across FE that support the ERM strategy to make risk actionable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering or related discipline required. Advanced degree is a plus but not required.
• Minimum 4 years relevant work experience required. Relevant experience includes risk management, program management, change management and facilitation, or other strategic project leadership roles.
• Other work experiences will be considered if they are demonstrated to be applicable to successfully performing this role.
• Experience working with diverse teams and building an inclusive work environment.
• Project management skills.
• Effective communications skills, written and verbal, including excellent PowerPoint skills and the ability to create presentations tailored to all audiences, from individual contributors through Executive Council and the Board of Directors.
• Strong understanding or ability to learn risk management processes.
• Highest standards of business conduct and ethical behaviors.