RCI-RID-17967 Lead Risk Specialist - Enterprise Risk - NY/MA (HYBRID)

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Hybrid - 2/3 days a week in office.

This role can be located in Waltham, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, New York and/or Melville, New York with hybrid working.

Job Title: Lead Risk Specialist - Enterprise Risk

Job Purpose

• This is a high-impact, high-visibility role that partners closely with senior leadership to shape and influence critical business decisions, including multi-billion dollar infrastructure investments.
• The position plays a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of the clean energy transition, while also providing the opportunity to lead, develop, and grow a key capability within a critical risk function.

You’ll go beyond managing risk—you’ll enable progress across Client’s biggest priorities:

• Advance cleaner energy Manage risks tied to decarbonization, grid transformation, and regulatory change
• Strengthen infrastructure investment Provide insight and challenge on large-scale capital programs and system resilience
• Deliver for customers Ensure risks impacting reliability, affordability, and service are proactively managed
• Drive better decisions Translate complex risk into clear, actionable insights for executive leaders

Key Accountabilities

• Lead delivery of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework
• Act as a trusted advisor to a Business Unit —providing challenge, insight, and solutions
• Coordinate and advise risk owners on risk identification, assessment, and analysis—delivering practical guidance aligned to policy and informed by industry best practice.
• Deliver executive-ready reporting to leadership and governance forums
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of direct and/or virtual risk professionals
• Strengthen risk culture and continuously improve how we operate

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in risk management (or related field), including experience of operating across various areas of a 3 Lines Model, and leading ERM initiatives and leadership reporting.
• Experience gained in a large, complex organization (matrixed, multi business, regulated, or capital intensive).
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in risk, business, finance, accounting, or a related discipline
• Relevant professional certification (e.g., ERMCP, CRM, CRMP, ACA/ACCA/ICAS, CPA, CIA/CMIIA)
• Ability to provide expert risk advice and practical recommendations to stakeholders and leadership
• Strong communication skills—able to distil complex risk into clear, actionable insight
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI) and GRC systems
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop team members
• Excellent planning and project management capability
• A continuous improvement mindset, with a track record of driving value-add outcomes
• Commercial mindset with the ability to connect risk to strategy