Enterprise Risk Lead

GreenPath Financial Wellness; Farmington Hills (MI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

GreenPath Financial Wellness is seeking an Enterprise Risk Lead to strengthen how we identify, understand, and respond to risk and opportunity across the organization. This role will advance enterprise risk management as an organizational capability, giving leaders the insights, tools, and frameworks they need to make informed decisions with confidence.

You’ll partner across the organization to connect strategic, operational, and emerging risks, strengthen resilience, and help GreenPath balance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• 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 translate risk analysis into clear recommendations and actionable insights that support informed decision-making and appropriate escalation.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and strengthen enterprise risk management.
• Provide risk advisory and decision support.
• Build risk capability and culture.
• Develop risk intelligence and reporting.
• Support enterprise resilience and continuous improvement.

Skills

Facilitation

Cross-functional leadership

Influence without authority

Executive communication

Analytical judgment

Problem-solving

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ERM frameworks

Job description

This position follows a hybrid work model, with two days per week onsite at our Farmington Hills, Michigan headquarters and additional flexibility to work remotely when needed.

About GreenPath

GreenPath Financial Wellness is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people to lead financially healthy lives. We provide counseling, education, and innovative solutions to help individuals and families achieve their financial goals. Our mission-driven culture values collaboration, integrity, and continuous improvement.

About the Role

GreenPath Financial Wellness is looking for an Enterprise Risk Lead to help strengthen how we identify, understand, and respond to risk and opportunity across the organization.

This role will help advance enterprise risk management as an organizational capability, giving leaders the insights, tools, and frameworks they need to make informed decisions with confidence. You’ll partner across the organization to connect strategic, operational, and emerging risks, strengthen resilience, and help GreenPath balance risk, opportunity, innovation, and mission impact.

If you enjoy working across functions, facilitating thoughtful conversations, analyzing complex information, and turning risk insights into practical recommendations, this could be a great opportunity.

What You’ll Do

Lead and strengthen enterprise risk management

• Maintain and continuously improve GreenPath’s enterprise risk management framework, governance practices, assessment methodologies, reporting standards, and escalation processes.
• Help 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.
• Provide visibility into significant risks, emerging threats, interconnected exposures, and areas of concentrated risk.

Provide risk advisory and decision support

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to leaders, project sponsors, and cross-functional teams.
• Help teams 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

• Develop practical training, coaching, tools, resources, and awareness initiatives that strengthen risk management capabilities.
• 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

• Develop and maintain 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

• Partner with business 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.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• 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 translate risk analysis into clear recommendations and actionable insights that support informed decision-making and appropriate escalation.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

What Will Help You Succeed

You’ll thrive in this role if you bring:

• Strong risk and business acumen
• Strategic and systems thinking
• Confidence to respectfully challenge assumptions and encourage thoughtful discussion
• An ability to simplify complex information for different audiences
• Strong facilitation and influencing skills
• A learning and continuous-improvement mindset
• Sound judgment, integrity, and professionalism
• A balance of analytical thinking and practical problem solving

This position follows a hybrid work model, with two days per week onsite at our Farmington Hills, Michigan headquarters and additional flexibility to work remotely when needed. The role may require approximately 5% travel.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

GreenPath is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.