Enterprise Risk Lead

Ocean Infinity • London, VA

16h

About The Position

Ocean Infinity is seeking an Enterprise Risk Lead for a senior integrator role. This position is responsible for ensuring that enterprise-level risks are explicitly identified before decisions are made, clearly communicated to Executive and Board levels, and then integrated back into the business with clear ownership, priority, and accountability. The role provides a unified view of enterprise risk exposure, especially for risks that span multiple functions, portfolios, or delivery areas. It ensures that leadership decisions regarding risk are translated into actionable direction, priorities, and follow-through. This is not a compliance, assurance, or audit role; instead, it operates through judgment, synthesis, and influence, embedding risk into the leadership narrative and decision-making process rather than serving as an after-the-fact report. The company is dedicated to using and creating technology to transform maritime operations, aiming for environmental responsibility and challenging traditional industries. They seek individuals who are courageous, trustworthy, conscientious, driven by a desire to do the right thing, strive for excellence, work collaboratively, and are genuinely excited by their work. The company offers opportunities for professional development across various disciplines, open to all backgrounds and experience levels. Working here means being part of a team that leverages technology and creativity to disrupt a traditional industry.

Requirements

• Senior, credible operator with strong judgement and gravitas.
• Comfortable working across functions without formal authority.
• Able to operate in high ambiguity with limited structure.
• Strong integrator and synthesiser rather than a process owner.
• Trusted advisor to Executive and Board.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a clear, forward‑looking view of the organisation’s most material enterprise risks, synthesising inputs from HSEQ and other specialist risk domains (e.g. cyber, legal, commercial, delivery teams).
• Steward the combined enterprise risk register, ensuring risks are consistently evaluated/scored, kept current, and developed as a decision-ready view of enterprise exposure; provide timely steer to Executive risk owners on required actions and trade-offs.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of stakeholder and geopolitical developments that may change enterprise exposure; surface emerging risks and trigger targeted evaluation and impact assessment with relevant executives and, where appropriate, Board committees.
• Identify cross‑functional interdependencies, overlaps and cumulative exposure that are not visible within individual functions or programmes.
• Ensure risk is made explicit before Executive and Board decisions are taken, including clear articulation of: the risk being accepted, mitigated or deferred the consequences and trade‑offs involved alignment to agreed risk appetite.
• Translate Executive and Board risk decisions into clear direction, priorities and ownership within the business, without taking ownership of execution or controls.
• Ensure enterprise risk decisions are embedded into business governance and delivery rhythms (e.g., planning, mobilisation, investment and performance reviews) so that ownership, prioritisation and follow‑through are explicit and visible—not left as narrative.
• Track whether agreed risk decisions have landed and been acted on, closing the loop between enterprise‑level decision‑making and functional delivery.
• Escalate risks early and proportionately, including calling for Executive or Board consideration, where enterprise exposure exceeds appetite, particularly in high‑consequence contexts (e.g. defence or government work).
• Provide clear, decision‑ready enterprise risk narratives to the Executive team and Board, focused on implications, options and trade‑offs rather than detailed registers.
• Support leadership in articulating and applying risk appetite consistently across strategic and material decisions.

Benefits

• Opportunities for our people to develop beyond their role and span a multitude of disciplines.
• Creating equal opportunities for all, celebrating each and everyone’s differences.
• Being inclusive and respectful to all is fundamental to who we are.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees