[Hiring] Risk and Compliance Manager @YPO

Role Description

This role sits within the Risk Management, Audit and Compliance function and partners with the Risk and Compliance Director to build, mature, and operate YPO's enterprise risk management (ERM) program and infrastructure, including the risk register, key risk indicator (KRI) framework, reporting and dashboards, and control library. Working enterprise-wide across YPO's global functions and regions, the role contributes to ERM strategy and program design, risk governance and committee structure, and risk education and awareness, and provides policy advisory support and clear communication to internal and external stakeholders. The role combines strategic framework-building with hands-on execution, with significant autonomy over the infrastructure it builds and strong advisory influence with business and functional leaders, who retain ownership of remediation, while Internal Audit retains independent control testing. It reports to the Risk and Compliance Director and works alongside the Internal Assurance Manager and Tax Accounting Manager.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to work independently with initiative, to be resourceful and self-motivated and proactively manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Exceptionally strong administrative and organizational skills; commitment to detail, methodology and accuracy; effective time management and prioritization skills.
• Excellent communication skills with an emphasis on proactivity, clarity, thoroughness, and diligence.
• Proven characteristics of intellectual curiosity, responsibility, determination, creativity, flexibility, drive, and self-confidence.
• Ability to maintain discretion and integrity of confidential and sensitive information.
• Ability to connect the dots, integrate ideas, influence, partner, build consensus and foster strategic trusted advisor relationships with members and all levels of the organization.
• Ability to identify problems, research alternatives, provide solutions and/or resolve issues in a timely manner. Anticipates customer needs and delivers with clarity.
• Analytical with extremely high judgement, structured thinking and creative problem solving.
• Possesses a distinct global mindset, sensitive to local and international customs and protocols, with the ability to work effectively across functions and regions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; Salesforce experience a plus. Hands-on experience building risk reporting and dashboards, with the ability to evaluate and recommend reporting tools. Keen desire to learn and apply new technologies and tools.
• Great sense of humor and works with integrity and humility.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise risk management, internal audit, or compliance, with direct experience building or operating risk registers, KRI frameworks, or control documentation.
• Working knowledge of COSO ERM and COSO Internal Control–Integrated Framework required.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate control design (not just confirm existence) and communicate recommendations persuasively to business and functional leaders outside the risk function.
• Experience building risk reporting or dashboards and moving manual processes toward more scalable tools.
• Strong policy drafting and written communication skills.
• Comfortable operating as an individual contributor with significant autonomy, balancing operational and advisory work with longer-cycle framework-building.
• Not-for-profit, membership organization, or similarly matrixed environment experience a plus.
• Experience in a global, event-driven, or member-based organization a plus.

Benefits

• Compensation ranges are based on the associate's primary work location.
• For US applicants: USD 88,100–112,300 annually.
• Associates are also eligible for performance-based bonus opportunities, remote work flexibility, and a comprehensive rewards package built around their wellbeing and growth.

Education/Training/Certification

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, risk management, or a related field required; advanced degree a plus, not required.
• One or more of the following certifications preferred: RIMS-CRMP (Certified Risk Management Professional), CRMA (Certification in Risk Management Assurance), CCEP (Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional).

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work flexible and/or extended hours as needed to accommodate members and team members in multiple time zones.
• Ability to work for extended hours at a computer screen.
• Willingness and ability to travel, domestically and internationally, without restrictions, approximately 5% per year.

Company Description

YPO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. YPO takes pride in supporting a diverse workforce and demonstrates this through its policies and practices. YPO does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.