Director - Enterprise Risk

About the Business

This is a global organisation with a strong focus on responsible growth and long-term resilience. As part of their continued evolution, they are strengthening the risk function.

The organisation operates across multiple functions and geographies, with a leadership team that values clear insight, commercial thinking, and strong stakeholder engagement.

About the Opportunity

This is a senior role within the Enterprise Risk function reporting directly to the CRO, responsible for helping ensure operational risk is vitally important to the board.

Working closely with senior leaders across the organisation, you will help shape how risk is identified, analysed, and managed across a range of areas.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Developing and improving the organisation's approach to identifying and managing operational risks

• Partnering with technology teams to assess and quantify cyber-related risks

• Producing clear, data-driven analysis and reporting to support executive decision-making

• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across multiple functions

This role offers strong exposure to senior leadership across the organisation and the ability to influence is important.

A Bit About You

You will be an experienced risk professional who is comfortable working at a senior level and influencing senior leadership.

You will likely bring:

• Around 10 years of experience in operational or enterprise risk within a large organisation

• Experience liaising with the SLT

• A track record of implementing or improving operational risk frameworks

• Strong analytical capability, including the ability to apply quantitative or scenario-based risk analysis

• The ability to communicate complex ideas to stakeholders at different levels

• A pragmatic, commercially minded approach to balancing risk management with business objectives