Associate Vice President, Enterprise Risk Management

Responsible for coordinating and directing activities of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program that assists Leadership in identifying, assessing, managing, and monitoring risks to its strategies to achieve performance and financial targets, prevent losses or other impacts from known events as well as identifying opportunities for transformation and innovation.

Works with the Enterprise Risk Management Executive Committee and delivers the strategic enterprise risk management vision and activities for the System. Identifies and addresses risk as an opportunity to maintain a competitive business advantage.

Essential Functions

• Seeks ways for the organization to exploit risk and uncertainty as an opportunity to maintain a competitive business advantage.

• Leads enterprise risk management (“ERM”) activities with a focus on strategic priorities, including working with senior executives to identify and address obstacles to meeting these strategic priorities.

• Oversees and manages the organization's comprehensive ERM activities designed to ensure that leaders consider significant risks and opportunities before making strategic and business decisions.

• Educates leaders throughout the System on the importance of ERM and how to use ERM as a strategic advantage.

• Serves as a resource for executives and business units to use ERM tools (e.g., risk assessment and scenario analysis) for strategic plan development or other business analysis or planning, project-based assessments, and referrals of issues or conditions that pose significant risk to the organization.

• Oversees completion of the annual risk and control self-assessment (“RCSA”) process for the organization's key business units, including verifying that accountable executives are completing the RCSA process.

• Facilitates accountability for identified enterprise risks and related control activities or counter-measures by regularly assessing whether “risk owners” are managing identified enterprise risks in accordance with established risk response plans.

• Continues to implement and uses the IBM OpenPages software platform as a strategic tool to analyze and report enterprise risks and to manage risks in accordance with the ERM framework, including coordinating data analytics capabilities with respect to risk and uncertainty.

• Monitors and regularly report findings from ERM risk assessments and scenario analyses to make sure that strategic and operational risk information is appropriately disseminated throughout the System.

• Prepares and presents ERM reports for senior management.

Education and Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Health Administration or related area required. Master's in Business Administration or law degree preferred.

• Minimum of 5 years experience in enterprise risk management or a similar discipline

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Excellent ability to lead through influence across a diverse organization to drive the adoption of risk management programs and the implementation of the expected changes in disciplined risk management practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of management and at the Board and Board Committee level.
• Ability to respond effectively to sensitive inquiries or complaints, ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management and/or Board of Directors
• An advanced knowledge of effective risk management practices and related regulatory requirements and expectations.
• Knowledge of the COSO ERM framework.
• Knowledge of data analytics and utilization of tools to create visualizations.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as well as lead and direct team members.
• Ability to identify risks, evaluate them for impact to organization, and influence leaders to understand.
• Strong organizational skills to multi-task and coordinate large-scale projects.
• Ability to identify and solve matters of concern.
• Ability to influence and recommend system improvement opportunities through critical thinking.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to effectively communicate with Leadership