Lead, Enterprise Risk Management

Scout Motors • Charlotte, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As Lead, Enterprise Risk Management, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and scaling Scout Motors’ enterprise-wide risk management program. The role also supports the development and maturation of the Internal Control System, ensuring that key enterprise and operational risks are mitigated through effective, risk-based controls embedded in business processes. Reporting to the Chief Integrity & Compliance Officer, this role serves as a key advisor to executive leadership and supports informed decision-making, organizational resilience, and sustainable growth.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise risk management, internal controls, internal audit, compliance, finance, or a related field.
• Proven experience designing and implementing ERM frameworks and/or supporting Internal Control Systems in complex or growing organizations.
• Strong understanding of the linkage between enterprise risk, operational risk, and internal controls.
• Experience engaging senior executives and Boards on risk-related matters.
• Integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, positive attitude, and a growth mindset.
• Comfort with change and flexibility in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals.
• Strategic and systems thinker with the ability to connect strategy, risk, and controls.
• Strong program-building capability with a pragmatic, execution-oriented mindset.
• Clear, persuasive communicator able to translate complex topics for senior leaders.
• Sound judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the confidence to challenge constructively.
• Collaborative influencer with high integrity and independence.

Nice To Haves

• Background in manufacturing, automotive, mobility, or other operationally complex and regulated industries.
• Experience working in multinational or matrixed environments.
• Practical familiarity with frameworks such as COSO ERM and COSO Internal Control.
• Experience supporting organizations through rapid growth, transformation, or governance maturation.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead the phased implementation of an enterprise-wide ERM framework aligned with strategy, growth objectives, and the organization’s risk profile.
• Establish clear risk governance, including defined roles, escalation pathways, and risk oversight structures.
• Support the development and articulation of a formal risk appetite and tolerance framework.
• Partner cross-functionally to identify, assess, and prioritize key enterprise risks and embed risk considerations into strategic planning and major initiatives.
• Ensure that agreed risk mitigation actions are actively monitored, implemented, and embedded in business decision-making.
• Act as a commercially minded partner to the business, supporting entrepreneurial risk-taking within the agreed risk appetite.
• Develop concise, forward-looking risk reporting for the Scout Management Board while managing regular risk reporting obligations to Scout’s parent company.
• Support the design and ongoing development of a risk-driven Internal Control System (ICS) aligned to enterprise and operational risks.
• Help link key risks to control objectives and support the identification and design of proportionate, effective controls.
• Collaborate with first-line functions to embed internal controls into core business processes and systems.
• Partner with Integrity & Compliance, Finance, and Internal Audit to support risk-based control assessment, monitoring, and remediation.
• Provide integrated insight into changes in risk exposure and control effectiveness.
• Promote a strong risk and control culture that emphasizes accountability and management ownership.
• Drive consistent risk and control language, tools, and understanding across the organization.
• Ensure alignment and coordination between ERM, ICS, compliance programs, and audit activities.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with: An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including: 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave

What This Job Offers

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