Enterprise Risk Management Lead, Associate Director

Overview

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Join our Core Business Services (CBS) team, where you will support the essential business enablement functions that keep our organization running strong. As a CBS professional, you will work across teams to provide the knowledge, resources, and tools that help EY deliver exceptional quality service to our clients, win in the marketplace, and support EY’s growth and profitability. Major teams within CBS include Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Enterprise Support Services, Brand Marketing and Communications, Business Development, Knowledge, and Ethics & Compliance.

The Ethics & Compliance function helps protect EY from risks that arise from its professional practice. Ethics & Compliance teams provide coordinated advice and assistance on regulatory and risk management issues, as well as management and oversight regarding the organization’s ethics.

Title:
Enterprise Risk Management Lead, Associate Director

The opportunity

Ethics, Compliance, and Risk Management (ECRM) supports our people in managing the risks that arise during our daily working lives. We work closely with all parts of the organization to identify, manage and monitor risk, providing coordinated advice and assistance on independence, conflicts, compliance, regulatory, policy, security issues, as well as dealing with claims and any queries regarding ethics.

ECRM is seeking an Associate Director to lead Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for the US Firm, responsible for driving the enterprise‑wide risk strategy, executing the three‑year roadmap approved by ECRM, and partnering with senior leadership to embed ERM into strategic planning, operational processes, and capital allocation across the US Firm. This role partners closely with US Firm leadership and serves as a key liaison to EY Global Risk Management, ensuring alignment of the US Firm’s ERM strategy, methodologies, taxonomy, processes, and reporting with Global frameworks and expectations.

The Associate Director strengthens the US Firm’s risk posture by embedding ERM into strategic planning, transformation initiatives, and operational decision-making. This leader will oversee enterprise risk assessments, risk appetite alignment, scenario analysis, and executive reporting, while building Center of Excellence capabilities that drive consistency, quality, and maturity of risk practices across the US Firm, in coordination with EY Global.

• Leadership & Management: Leading the US Firm ERM team; setting the vision for ERM capabilities; establishing a Center of Excellence aligned to EY Global standards; fostering a risk-aware culture; collaborating with cross-functional leaders; and providing strategic risk guidance that integrates ERM into US Firm business planning and decision-making.

• Risk Assessment: Overseeing enterprise-wide risk identification, rating, quantification, and scenario analysis; maintaining a standardized US Firm risk taxonomy and rating scales; developing advanced, data‑driven assessment methods; and informing related programs such as third‑party, country, and operational resilience risk management.

• Risk Mitigation & Control: Leading development and monitoring of mitigation strategies and control frameworks; partnering with first-line teams to evaluate control effectiveness; ensuring alignment with EY Global control expectations; and organizing the US Firm’s enterprise risk infrastructure, including methodologies, tools, and capability enablement.

• Reporting & Communication: Driving production of aggregate US Firm risk profiles and dashboards that provide hindsight, insight, and foresight; preparing executive‑level and Global-quality reporting; communicating key trends, exposures, and emerging risks to senior leadership and risk committees; and coordinating with EY Global on integrated reporting and cross‑border themes.

• Framework & Process Development: Establis…