Director, Enterprise Risk Management - Risk Analytics Reporting & Metrics

Early Warning® • Chicago, IL

21h • $172,000 - $258,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director leads and strategically evolves the company’s enterprise Risk Management analytics, reporting, and key risk and performance metrics (KRIs/KPIs). The role oversees critical reporting for management and executive committees, Board committees, and regulators, including the Risk Appetite Statement, monthly and quarterly reporting cycles, and the performance of second-line governed risk-based programs. The Director maintains and monitors report production, validation, data quality standards, formatting, and timeliness to ensure quality and integrity. This visible leadership role manages a high-performing team and works with employees across the organization, including executives, senior leadership, First Line Risk Management, second-line risk management functions, and Internal Audit.

The Director leads the strategy and day-to-day production of risk reporting and analytics, advises executives and management on reporting standards and methodologies, and ensures reports are accurate, consistent, and delivered on time. The role also advances reporting automation, dashboards, visualization, metric design and governance, data quality, and integrations between Risk Management systems and the company data lake. The position works in a hybrid environment. The normal office environment is primarily sedentary and involves extensive computer use.

Requirements

• Typically 12 years of experience or a demonstrated portfolio consistent with the experience required for the role.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams, managing performance, and delivering functional objectives.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise risk management frameworks, methodologies, governance, and internal controls.
• Experience working within a three-lines-of-defense risk management model.
• Understanding of financial services regulatory requirements and risk management practices.
• Experience leading risk assessments, risk appetite processes, and enterprise risk reporting.
• Ability to translate business objectives into functional plans, manage competing priorities, and drive results.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Effective communication and relationship management skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience leading process improvements and managing organizational change.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Must independently be eligible to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire; the position is ineligible for employment visa sponsorship.
• Background and drug screen.

Nice To Haves

• Tableau, Power BI, or other visualization tool certifications.
• SQL programming experience, or ability to learn.
• Familiarity with or direct experience in SDLC agile strategies.
• Experience with GRC systems as an end user or administrator.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, coach, and motivate a highly engaged, high-performing risk analytics and reporting team; manage performance and balance stakeholder expectations, priorities, and team workload.
• Collaborate with executives, senior leadership, program owners, and leaders across all three lines of defense.
• Lead and continuously evolve Enterprise Risk Management reporting and the enterprise Risk Analytics and Metrics (KRIs/KPIs) programs, particularly reporting for executive and management audiences and Board committees.
• Provide hands-on risk analytics, report production, and dashboard configuration using visualization tools when needed.
• Lead day-to-day production, validation, coordination, and continuous improvement of analyses, metrics, and reports, including the Risk Appetite Statement, committee and Board metrics, and risk program performance.
• Advise executives and management on reporting strategies, standards, and methodologies as the reporting subject matter expert.
• Establish and maintain high standards for report quality, accuracy, and timeliness; review content consistency, formatting, presentation, and compliance with approved templates and branding.
• Coordinate with management and risk program owners to establish, maintain, and evolve automated dashboards, reports, metrics, and data files.
• Represent Enterprise Risk Management as the main contact for risk reporting inquiries, questions, and credible challenges.
• Ensure report documentation is archived and provide authoritative data files, validation evidence, and prior reports when needed.
• Maintain expertise in quantitative and qualitative analysis and visualization tools, applying or assessing them hands-on when necessary.
• Identify manual analytics and reporting activities and implement automation improvements.
• Establish, maintain, and monitor data quality and accuracy; proactively identify and remediate data anomalies and errors.
• Own the strategy and management of the company’s GRC Metric Application.
• Conduct credible challenges of proposed metric designs and metric design updates or periodic reviews.
• Produce an annual active metric inventory report identifying metric types, categories, findings, and general compliance with the EWS Metric Standard.
• Monitor and ensure timely entry of metric results by Metric Owners.
• Coordinate with the Chief Data Office and technology resources to implement, monitor, and evolve integration of GRC and other Risk Management-owned systems with the company data lake.
• Lead and coordinate employee reporting self-service using the data lake and company-provided visualization tools.
• Coordinate with Data Governance to identify, catalogue, obtain approval for, and maintain Risk Management’s critical data element inventory.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Benefits

• Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans.
• Company contributions to a Health Savings Account or pre-tax flexible spending accounts for commuting, health, and dependent-care expenses.
• 401(k) plan with a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on the first 6% deferred, immediately upon eligibility.
• Flexible Time Off for exempt employees and generous PTO for non-exempt employees.
• 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Maven Family Planning support, including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.
• Eligibility for a discretionary incentive plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed