Sr. Enterprise Risk Governance Specialist Job New York New York USA,Business

Our Mission

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Role Overview

The Sr. Enterprise Risk Governance Specialist position is a senior role within Enterprise Risk & Trust, reporting to the Head of Enterprise Risk & Trust. This is the hands-on expert and builder behind the organization’s enterprise risk management and control environment - personally designing, operating, and continuously maturing the frameworks, inventories, controls, and reporting that keep the organization within its stated risk appetite while advancing its strategic objectives.

This specialist owns and executes the technical substance of risk governance across its full lifecycle: obligation identification, control architecture, risk measurement, reporting, and external representation.

Sitting at the intersection of risk, compliance, technology, and AI safety, this role is uniquely positioned to shape how the organization understands and responds to a dynamic regulatory and operational risk landscape. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in enterprise risk frameworks, a systems-level perspective on controls design, and the personal credibility to represent the organization’s risk posture to regulators, customers, auditors, and other critical external stakeholders.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact individual-contributor role that operates across all business functions. Success requires the ability to translate complex risk concepts into actionable governance structures, influence without direct authority, and build trusted relationships internally and externally.

What You'll Do
Control Environment & Risk Framework Architecture

Design, build, and operate a control environment that drives efficient, prioritized adherence to organizational obligations in alignment with management’s objectives and stated risk appetite.
Design and continuously operate an enterprise risk management framework spanning risk identification, measurement, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting - contextualized against the organization’s obligations, objectives, and risk tolerance.
Establish and apply a disciplined approach to risk prioritization that balances operational efficiency with the rigor required to address high-severity exposures across the enterprise.

Policy, Standards & Controls Governance

Operate the organization’s policy and standards issuance lifecycle, ensuring timely coverage of emerging obligations and strategic priorities.
Design, implement, and maintain the controls and guardrails that drive adherence to obligations and objectives within defined risk appetite thresholds.
Build and maintain a structured controls taxonomy and policy hierarchy, ensuring alignment, traceability, and clear ownership across the enterprise.

Enterprise Inventories & Data Stewardship

Own and maintain the enterprise risk registry and control inventory, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and operationalization across all relevant functions.
Steward the design, quality, and utilization of key risk-related ecosystem inventories, including data inventories, IT asset inventories, and other foundational records management infrastructure.
Champion and enforce data quality and governance standards across risk-related inventories, enabling confident risk measurement and management decisions.

Risk Reporting & Executive Communication

Build and maintain executive-quality reporting on enterprise risk posture, policy and standards coverage, and the efficacy of regulatory and risk-driven controls.
Contextualize risk reporting against the…