Role Description
Support the identification, assessment, monitoring, and reporting of risks that could affect organizational objectives. Work with business owners and specialist functions to strengthen enterprise risk practices, evaluate responses, and provide clear insights for decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate risk assessments across business functions, projects, and strategic initiatives.
- Analyze internal incidents, performance indicators, and external developments to identify emerging risks.
- Maintain risk registers, assessment records, ownership information, and action trackers.
- Assess potential impacts, likelihood, existing controls, and residual exposure using approved methods.
- Support the development of risk appetite measures, thresholds, and escalation criteria.
- Monitor key risk indicators and investigate significant changes or breaches.
- Coordinate risk treatment plans and track progress with accountable business owners.
- Conduct scenario analysis and assess dependencies between risks.
- Prepare reports, dashboards, and committee materials explaining exposures and priorities.
- Review the quality and consistency of risk assessments and supporting evidence.
- Coordinate with compliance, internal audit, finance, security, and resilience teams.
- Deliver guidance and training to improve risk awareness and assessment practices.
- Document assumptions, uncertainty, and limitations, escalating material concerns promptly.
Role-Specific Responsibilities
- Corporate Risk Analyst: Gather risk information, analyze indicators and incidents, maintain registers, and prepare reports under appropriate guidance.
- Enterprise Risk Associate: Own defined assessment and reporting workstreams, coordinate business inputs, and support scenario analysis and governance activities.
- Enterprise Risk Specialist: Provide expertise in risk methods or assigned risk areas, challenge assessments constructively, and improve frameworks, indicators, and response planning.
Qualifications
- Relevant experience in enterprise risk, operational risk, corporate planning, audit, compliance, business analysis, or a related field.
- Understanding of risk assessment, controls, risk appetite, and treatment planning.
- Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to assess evidence and communicate uncertainty and business implications clearly.
- Proficiency in spreadsheets and familiarity with reporting or risk management systems.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Effective communication, facilitation, and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Sound judgment, professional integrity, and discretion.
- A degree in business, finance, economics, accounting, engineering, risk management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- For associate roles, experience independently delivering defined risk activities.
- For specialist roles, demonstrated expertise in risk assessment methods, governance, or relevant risk domains.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant risk, audit, finance, or governance qualifications.
- Familiarity with recognized enterprise risk management frameworks.
- Experience with quantitative analysis, stress testing, or risk aggregation.
- Knowledge of business intelligence tools, SQL, or reporting automation.
- Experience supporting multi-entity organizations or risk committee reporting.
- Relevant industry knowledge and experience tracking remediation effectiveness.
Scope by Role
- Corporate Risk Analyst: Provides analysis and documentation supporting risk visibility.
- Enterprise Risk Associate: Coordinates assigned enterprise risk assessments and governance deliverables.
- Enterprise Risk Specialist: Strengthens risk methodologies and provides specialist challenge, while business owners remain accountable for managing their risks.