Director, Enterprise Risk Management - Risk Analytics Reporting & Metrics

Early Warning Services • Scottsdale, AZ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director leads and strategically evolves Early Warning’s enterprise Risk Management analytics, reporting, and metrics (KRI/KPI) programs. 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 performance reporting for second-line governed risk programs. The Director maintains and monitors report production, validation, data quality standards, formatting, and timeliness, ensuring high quality and integrity.

This highly visible leadership role manages a skilled team and collaborates with employees across the organization, including executives, senior leadership, First Line Risk Management, second-line risk management functions, and Internal Audit. It combines strategic leadership with hands-on expertise in data, analytics, metrics, reporting, automation, and visualization. The Director also owns the strategy and management of the company’s GRC Metric Application and coordinates Risk Management systems integration with the company’s data lake.

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 complete a background and drug screen.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, coach, and motivate a high-performing risk analytics and reporting team, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Balance stakeholder expectations, strategic priorities, and team workload.
• Collaborate with executives, senior leadership, program owners, and leaders across all three lines of defense.
• Lead and continuously evolve Risk Management reporting, particularly reporting for executive and management audiences and Board committees.
• Lead and continuously evolve the Enterprise Risk Management analytics program and enterprise KRI/KPI Metrics Program.
• Perform hands-on risk analytics and build reports or configure dashboards using visualization tools when needed.
• Lead day-to-day production, validation, coordination, and evolution 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.
• Maintain report quality, accuracy, and timeliness; review and update content, formatting, presentation, and compliance with approved templates and company branding.
• Coordinate with management and risk program owners to establish, maintain, and evolve automated dashboards, reports, metrics, and data files.
• Serve as Enterprise Risk Management’s main contact for risk reporting inquiries, questions, and credible challenges.
• Archive report documentation and provide authoritative data files, validation evidence, and prior reports when necessary.
• Maintain expertise in quantitative and qualitative data analysis and visualization tools, including hands-on application or assessment when necessary.
• Identify manual analytics and reporting activities and implement continuous automation improvements.
• Establish, maintain, and monitor data quality and accuracy, proactively identifying and promptly remediating 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 systems with the company’s 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.

Benefits

• Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans.
• Company contributions to a Health Savings Account or pre-tax savings through 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 return-to-work support.
• Eligible for a discretionary incentive plan.

What This Job Offers

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