Director, Enterprise Risk Management

CapMetro

Director of Enterprise Risk Management at CapMetro overseeing enterprise risk management strategies and building a risk-aware culture. Leading initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and stakeholder confidence.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Assess CapMetro’s current approach to identification and management of enterprise risks and develop an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework that supports the Strategic Plan, capital project development and management, and significant organizational initiatives.
Partner with leaders to facilitate an ERM approach to enterprise-level decisions, helping ensure alignment with the strategic plan and agency risk appetite.
Align risk methodologies, priorities, and mitigation strategies across the organization and ensure consistency between risk management initiatives and other agency policies and processes.
Identify, assess, prioritize, monitor, escalate, mitigate, and report on enterprise-level risks, such as strategic, operational, financial, compliance, reputational, environmental, and emerging risks.
Aggregate and analyze risk information across business units and functions to identify emerging risks, trends, and enterprise-level exposures.
Lead through influence across all business units and executive leadership to embed risk management practices into decision-making.
Consult with business units on risk management processes and drive cross-functional risk dialogue, including recurring and ad hoc risk training, forums, assessments, working groups, and governance discussions.
Analyze highly complex problems to seek understanding of the underlying issue and root cause of the problem. Improves upon existing solutions, programs and processes using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation.
Prepare clear, accurate, and actionable risk communications, analysis, and recommendations to executive leadership.
Review failures in risk management processes and formulate recommendations or corrective action plans for their future prevention.
Support Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Safety Management Systems (SMS) process by following safety and security policies, considering safety in every action and reporting safety and security concerns.
Perform other duties as required and/or assigned in support of the Capital Metro Strategic Plan.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in risk management, business, economics, finance, public administration, management, or related field.
Ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in risk management, with a strong focus on enterprise risk management and at least six (6) years in a leadership role.
Professional risk management qualification such as Enterprise Risk Manager (ERM), International Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management (IRM), Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
Demonstrated experience in implementing Enterprise Risk Management systems/frameworks
Strong knowledge of public sector management principles
Strong financial, reporting, and data analytics acumen
Proven track record of establishing and maintaining relationships with individuals at various levels of the organization, including senior executives, internal/external stakeholders, and business partners.
Experience effectively managing and pivoting between competing priorities
Experience leading change, communicating effectively, and overcoming resistance.
Experience developing collaborative solutions and building consensus among diverse stakeholders.
Excellent interpersonal communication, a high attention to detail, and critical problem-solving skills to garner credibility and develop strong relationships
Ability to lead and work in a team environment in a matrix organization, partnering well with employees, management, users, business areas, and contractors
Ability to be a positive and constructive contributor in a team-based environment
Excellent organization skills and ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and diverse groups of people and activities simultaneously
Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a pragmatic and data-driven approach to recommendations and decision-making.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to a non-technical audience.
Demonstrated leadership ability.
Proactively and effectively perform duties and assigned tasks without close supervision
Ability to handle and resolve unstructured problems and provide effective solutions or avenues for the solutions to come from other team members
Navigate differing perspectives and risk tolerances with professionalism and sound judgment.
Be self-motivated and seek opportunities for continuous improvement of skills and processes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise risk managementrisk assessmentdata analyticsfinancial reportingrisk communicationproblem-solvingrisk mitigation strategiesrisk methodologiesrisk management processessafety management systems

Soft Skills

leadershipinterpersonal communicationorganizational skillscollaborative solutionscritical thinkingrelationship buildingchange managementeffective communicationattention to detailself-motivation

Certifications

Enterprise Risk Manager (ERM)International Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management (IRM)Financial Risk Manager (FRM)