Director, Enterprise Risk Management & Internal Controls

About the role

A fast-growing international renewable energy and industrial processing business is building its enterprise risk and internal controls framework from scratch. The role reports directly to the CFO and leads the development of the enterprise risk management framework across the organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and maintain risk registers, risk assessment methodologies and risk reporting mechanisms.
• Design and enhance internal control frameworks aligned with COSO principles and business requirements.
• Partner with operations, engineering, commercial and finance teams to identify, assess and mitigate key business risks.
• Support the development of policies, procedures and governance standards across critical business processes.
• Monitor remediation activities arising from audits, risk reviews and control assessments.
• Drive risk awareness, training and stakeholder engagement to strengthen risk culture.
• Act as a key partner to senior leadership on strategic, operational, regulatory and financial risk matters.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline.
• At least 12 years of experience across Enterprise Risk Management, Internal Controls, Governance, Risk & Compliance.
• Experience in oil & gas, renewable energy, chemicals, industrial manufacturing, agribusiness processing or similar process-driven industries, with exposure to plant or operational environments.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive organisation-wide initiatives in complex environments.

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of COSO frameworks, risk assessment methodologies, control design and governance practices.
• Familiarity with large ERP environments such as SAP or Oracle, including governance and control considerations.