Executive Risk Leader: Reporting, Governance & Audit

Navy Federal Credit Union; Pensacola (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking an experienced executive risk leader in Pensacola, FL, to oversee risk reporting, governance, and audit readiness. You will manage multiple risk teams, translate strategy into actionable plans, and partner with senior leaders to strengthen controls and regulatory compliance.

The role focuses on building high-performing teams, coaching leaders, and driving sustainable risk practices across the organization while ensuring clear communications with stakeholders

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading multiple teams in a complex risk, business, operations, compliance, audit, analytics, or financial services environment.
• Demonstrated ability to translate broader organizational strategies into team priorities, operating plans, governance routines, communications, reporting practices, and measurable outcomes.
• Expert knowledge of applicable federal and state laws, rules and regulations, regulatory expectations, and financial services industry standards.
• Proven ability to develop, coach, and empower people leaders, including building leadership capability, strengthening accountability, managing performance, and supporting succession readiness.

Responsibilities

• Translate broader risk and business strategies into clear priorities, plans, and expectations for assigned areas of risk coverage, ensuring alignment with risk organization objectives, business unit goals, regulatory expectations, and enterprise standards
• Lead multiple teams through managers and people leaders, establishing operating routines, decision-making expectations, and accountability mechanisms that support consistent risk management outcomes
• Oversee executive risk reporting routines, including risk themes, performance insights, key risk indicators, emerging risks, remediation progress, and leadership recommendations to support awareness, decision-making, and accountability
• Direct team and stakeholder risk communications to ensure risk, governance, exam, audit, control, and operational information is clear, coordinated, timely, and tailored to the appropriate audience, including team members, business partners, risk partners, and senior leaders
• Manage exam and audit readiness, response coordination, issue management, corrective action oversight, control enhancement, and timely escalation of material risks, approved recommendations, and remediation commitments
• Operationalize risk priorities through team plans, governance practices, reporting routines, control expectations, and execution roadmaps that enable sustainable delivery
• Partner with and influence senior business leaders, peer risk leaders, Compliance, Audit, Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to align on risk priorities, tradeoffs, coordinated responses, and sustainable solutions
• Develop, coach, and empower people leaders to strengthen leadership capability, deepen risk expertise, build high-performing teams, reinforce accountability, and support succession readiness
• Ensure assigned teams maintain effective risk identification, assessment, monitoring, escalation, remediation, and reporting practices across areas of responsibility
• Align team capacity, priorities, and resources to the highest-risk work while balancing strategic objectives, operational needs, regulatory expectations, and team governance requirements
• Reinforce a proactive risk culture by embedding risk awareness, sound governance, quality standards, and regulatory discipline into business routines and team practices
• Evaluate emerging risks, business changes, operational trends, and regulatory developments to inform planning, resourcing, governance routines, communications, and leadership recommendations

Skills

Executive leadership

Risk management

Strategic planning

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Stakeholder management

Change management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Risk Management, Finance, Auditing, or related field

Tools

Regulatory reporting systems

Audit management tools

Job description

Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking an experienced executive risk leader in Pensacola, FL, to oversee risk reporting, governance, and audit readiness. You will manage multiple risk teams, translate strategy into actionable plans, and partner with senior leaders to strengthen controls and regulatory compliance.

The role focuses on building high-performing teams, coaching leaders, and driving sustainable risk practices across the organization while ensuring clear communications with stakeholders