Enterprise Risk Lead

greenpath, inc.•Farmington Hills, MI

2h•$85,000 - $105,000•Hybrid

About The Position

GreenPath Financial Wellness is seeking an Enterprise Risk Lead to enhance the organization's ability to identify, understand, and respond to risks and opportunities. This role will advance enterprise risk management as a core capability, providing leaders with the necessary insights, tools, and frameworks for informed decision-making. The position involves collaborating across departments to connect strategic, operational, and emerging risks, bolster resilience, and help GreenPath effectively balance risk, opportunity, innovation, and its mission impact. Ideal candidates will enjoy cross-functional work, facilitating discussions, analyzing complex information, and translating risk insights into practical recommendations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
3–5 years of relevant experience in enterprise risk management, audit, compliance, privacy, or a related field.
Knowledge of enterprise risk management frameworks, risk assessments, governance practices, controls, indicators, and reporting.
Strong ability to facilitate complex, cross-functional discussions and influence without direct authority.
Ability to turn risk analysis into clear recommendations, decisions, actions, and escalation strategies.
Strong business acumen with the ability to connect risk and opportunity to strategy, operations, financial performance, technology, people, compliance, reputation, and delivery.
Strong analytical judgment, problem-solving, facilitation, and executive-level communication skills.
High level of integrity, confidentiality, objectivity, and professional judgment.

Nice To Haves

Experience within financial services or another regulated environment.
Experience supporting executive leadership, enterprise governance committees, or Board committee reporting.
Professional certification in risk management, project management, auditing, compliance, internal controls, or a related discipline.
Experience developing risk education, leadership development, training, or organizational capability-building programs.

Responsibilities

Lead and strengthen enterprise risk management by maintaining and improving the ERM framework, governance, assessment methodologies, reporting standards, and escalation processes.
Establish consistent risk definitions, assessment criteria, tolerances, scoring methods, and reporting practices.
Coordinate enterprise risk governance activities, including the Internal Risk Management Committee.
Prepare clear and meaningful risk reporting for executive leadership and Board committees, providing visibility into significant risks, emerging threats, interconnected exposures, and areas of concentrated risk.
Provide risk advisory and decision support by serving as a trusted thought partner to leaders and teams, helping them evaluate uncertainty, opportunities, assumptions, dependencies, tradeoffs, and potential impacts.
Facilitate risk-informed discussions during strategic planning, major projects, operational decisions, and organizational change.
Translate complex risk information into clear options, recommendations, and actionable next steps.
Build risk capability and culture by developing practical training, coaching, tools, resources, and awareness initiatives.
Promote consistent enterprise risk practices across GreenPath and its affiliates.
Encourage a culture where teams proactively identify and discuss risk while remaining focused on opportunity and innovation.
Help leaders integrate risk considerations into planning, operations, projects, and decision-making.
Develop risk intelligence and reporting by creating and maintaining key risk indicators, monitoring processes, escalation triggers, and supporting data sources.
Monitor risk exposure, trends, emerging issues, external developments, and cross-functional impacts.
Create dashboards and reports that clearly communicate risk status, trends, response progress, residual risk, and areas requiring leadership attention.
Track key risk response and mitigation commitments with designated business and project owners.
Continuously improve the quality, consistency, accuracy, and timeliness of enterprise risk information.
Support enterprise resilience and continuous improvement by partnering with leaders and specialist functions to maintain a connected view of enterprise risks, opportunities, and interdependencies.
Coordinate GreenPath’s crisis management plan in partnership with Internal Audit, Compliance, Information Security, Business Continuity, and other assurance functions.
Help define requirements for risk-related policies, standards, procedures, tools, and guidance.
Use lessons learned, risk events, audit findings, performance data, and industry practices to strengthen GreenPath’s risk management maturity and organizational resilience.