VP, Enterprise Risk Management

About the role

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.

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.