Senior Lead First Line Risk Management – Temporary

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States (Arizona) seeks a senior leader to drive first-line risk programs, assessments, and control strategies across the organization. You will advise senior leaders on material risks, remediation priorities, and governance, while leading major remediation efforts and executive reporting.

The ideal candidate demonstrates expert-level risk management experience, cross-functional influence, and a track record of sustainable remediation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field; education combined with experience
• 12+ years of progressive risk leadership experience
• Expert-level first-line risk management, controls, audit, or compliance experience
• Proven ability to solve complex risk problems impacting broad parts of the business
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and advising senior stakeholders
• Background check and drug screen completed
• Authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available

Responsibilities

• Lead first-line risk programs, assessments, and control strategies
• Advise senior leaders on material risks and remediation priorities
• Drive issue-management, root-cause analysis, and executive reporting
• Shape risk governance, metrics, and escalation approaches
• Represent risk in audits, governance forums, and cross-functional initiatives
• Coach teams and elevate risk capability with standards and tools
• Manage risk inventories, self-assessments, and control design reviews
• Identify systemic gaps using control results and evidence
• Develop risk metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and risk-acceptance approaches
• Prepare readiness for audits and independent assessments

Skills

First-Line Risk Management

Risk Assessment

Control Design Reviews

Data Analysis

Governance Materials

Leadership

Coaching

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, risk management, finance, technology, data, operations, or related field

Job description

• Lead high-impact first-line risk programs, assessments, control strategies, and cross-functional initiatives involving complex or emerging risks


• Anticipate internal and external risk challenges and recommend changes to processes, controls, products, services, or operating practices


• Resolve unique and complex risk problems with broad business impact by integrating business context, data, control evidence, and stakeholder perspectives


• Shape functional risk practices, methodologies, governance routines, metrics, and escalation approaches


• Advise senior business leaders on material risks, control tradeoffs, risk acceptance, remediation priorities, and change readiness


• Lead major issue-management and remediation efforts, including root-cause analysis, sustainable corrective action, and executive-level reporting


• Represent first-line risk in significant audits, examinations, governance forums, and cross-functional initiatives


• Lead project teams or communities of practice and elevate capability through coaching, standards, and reusable tools


• Lead or shape process, risk, and control inventories, risk and control self-assessments, control design reviews, monitoring, and first-line testing approaches


• Use control results and risk evidence to identify systemic gaps, strengthen control performance, and drive sustainable remediation


• Lead risk metrics, key risk indicators, dashboards, governance materials, issue reporting, and risk-acceptance approaches


• Lead first-line readiness for material audits, examinations, independent assessments, and complex issue remediation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, risk management, finance, technology, data, operations, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience


• Typically 12 or more years of progressive experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role


• Expert-level experience in first-line risk management or a closely related risk, controls, audit, compliance, technology, data, product, or operational discipline


• Demonstrated experience solving unique and complex risk problems with broad business impact and contributing to functional strategy or operating practices


• Experience leading major cross-functional initiatives and advising senior stakeholders on significant risk and control matters


• Background and drug screen


• Independently possess eligibility to work in the United States for any employer at the date of hire


• Position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expert-level experience in first-line risk management, including leading complex risk programs, assessments, and control strategies. Capable of advising senior leaders on risk matters and driving sustainable remediation through effective governance and metrics.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• First-Line Risk Management


• Risk Assessment


• Control Strategies


• Cross-Functional Initiatives


• Root-Cause Analysis

Hard Skills

• Risk Management


• Control Design Reviews


• Risk and Control Self-Assessments


• Key Risk Indicators


• Data Analysis


• Issue Reporting


• Governance Materials


• Sustainable Remediation


• Complex Problem Solving


• Process Improvement

Soft Skills

• Leadership


• Coaching


• Stakeholder Engagement


• Communication


• Strategic Thinking

Industry Keywords

• Risk Governance


• Audit


• Compliance


• Operational Discipline


• Business Impact