The role will have responsibility for the second line of defence function that oversees and guides the quality and effectiveness of enterprise risk management practices across the Company. As a risk leader and subject matter expert, the Head of ERM will be responsible for collaborating with key stakeholders across the Global Functions, and businesses units in order to identify key risks and evaluate the control environment of BCG, highlighting priorities to strengthen our overall risk management model at BCG.
You will perform The Chief of Staff role for the firm’s Audit and Risk Committee Chair, setting the agenda and priorities for the committee, and advising the committee chair to ensure effective oversight of our risk landscape and risk management model. You will also serve as delegate to the CRO on important strategic projects, able to step in to situations with firm leadership to work issues to resolution, representing the Risk function and expertise in ERM and across the team.
You will drive both continuous improvement in existing practices of risk management as well as initiating transformational efforts to strengthen BCG’s risk management capabilities. You will drive from strategy, through operational design, and organizational change management.
- Setting strategic direction of the Enterprise Risk Management program with core objective of driving a data-driven assessment of BCG’s risk landscape, highlighting strengths/gaps/priorities for BCG’s risks management program, fostering a risk-aware culture with prioritization of the top risks all front line employees must understand and manage, and proposing enterprise level risk strategies and policies
- Providing frameworks and structure to support management’s decisions, business processes, and activities to understand and strengthen overall risk practices and programs
- Collaborating with business units (incl. Practice Areas and specialty businesses) and functional leaders in Legal, Finance, Operations, Human Resources, and Information Security to develop, scenario assess, communicate, and maintain corporate policies and programs directed at identification and mitigation of risk
- Monitoring changes in Business unit risk profiles via GRC Platform to provide effective support to key stakeholder’s remediation plans
- Regularly presenting, with credibility and presence, to the firm’s Leadership
- Evaluating and articulating the firm’s evolving risk posture in clear and concise terms to Senior Leadership
- Managing and enhancing the data, processes, tools, and systems used to identify, assess, measure, manage, monitor, and report risks
- Monitoring areas where risk is identified and working with all stakeholders to mitigate risk
- Partnering with the Risk Product Portfolio team to improve risk-monitoring tools and processes, workforce enabling tools, with a strong focus on awareness and workflow support
- Staying up to date on trends that affect our industry; performing risk analyses and providing early warnings to the firm’s Leadership
- Refining risk-based measurement and reporting metrics and communicating vulnerability findings
- Manages relationships with external service providers (e.g., Eurasia Group, Software providers, Auditors , ARC Senior Advisor)
- Leading, managing, and developing the Enterprise Risk Management team
- Serve on various Steering Committees or business unit committees (global and regional levels) and ensure that relevant risk-related management information is considered and incorporated into outcomes
- Collaborating day-to-day on Risk governance practices across the Risk Function to further enhance the connectivity of ERM processes
- Developing and managing the planning and budgets (people, infrastructure, consulting) as assigned by the Chief Risk Officer
- The ability to build credible and influential stakeholder relationships that enable delivery of an effective Risk management strategy
- Strong collaboration skills, be quick to react and execute in a fast-paced environment.
You are an experienced executive with proven experience operating and transforming enterprise teams, as well as:
A senior risk management or consulting professional
A results-driven and solutions-oriented individual
Adept at responding quickly and multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment
Able to generate immediate credibility at the Managing Director & Partner level through gravitas, track record, and leadership skills
And you have:
The ability to develop and implement ERM frameworks and tools within a competitive, fast-paced environment, to enable execution of the ERM strategy and support future improvements
Strategic foresight to anticipate risks and regulatory changes that may affect the industry
The ability to build credible and influential stakeholder relationships that enable delivery of an effective ERM strategy
Strong collaboration skills, and the capability to react and execute quickly in a dynamic environment
You have successfully operated in a matrixed environment with a dispersed power base and have a track record of influencing change within that setting. You also understand professional services environments (management consulting or investment banking) in order to empathise with a high- intellect, professional workforce.
Minimum of 15-20 years of related experience in the ERM or management consulting space within the professional services industry or equivalent experience
Graduate degree in ERM, Finance, Economics, or MBA preferred and relevant professional qualifications (e.g., CIA, CMA, CPA)
Experience leading an ERM program at the corporate level and detailed understanding of global ERM Frameworks
Demonstrated experience evaluating risks and developing strategies to mitigate risks for a matrixed global professional services company
Deep knowledge and understanding of risk management principles and strategies as well as the emerging trends
A proven track record of delivering business facing outcomes in a dynamic, global, fast-paced and commercially driven environment
Substantive international experience, a willingness to travel and the flexibility to deal with a diverse set of stakeholders, clients, advisers and colleagues around the globe
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the personal presence to influence others whether in small groups or presenting to large audiences
Superior analytical and creative problem-solving skills combined with a talent for absorbing new skill sets and areas of expertise efficiently
A high degree of professional ethics and integrity
Proven success bringing people together and pushing boundaries
BCG’s Global Risk Team manages a full spectrum of risk areas, including Compliance, Audit & Assurance, Information Security, Data Protection and Strategy & Operations. The firm’s Risk team serves as both a trusted advisor to the business and an activist agent of change.