Director, Enterprise Risk Manager

About Origence

With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, we specialize in SaaS lending solutions that lead the industry. Our core mission is customer-centric, focusing on empowering Credit Unions across the United States with the tools to offer accessible, competitive lending services. We're deeply committed to enhancing the financial ecosystem for a broad network of credit unions, members and auto dealers. We invest in our greatest assets, our employees, and foster a culture of innovation and ownership through freedom and responsibility. We celebrate fiscal accountability, operational rigor and efficiency to create a sustainably healthy and robust business for the long term.

The Director, Enterprise Risk Management is responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and oversight of the company’s enterprise risk management (ERM) framework. This role identifies, evaluates, mitigates, and monitors operational, strategic, compliance, and emerging risks. The Director partners with business leaders to embed risk-aware decision-making, strengthen internal controls, and support regulatory and audit readiness.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Risk Management

• Manage and maintain enterprise risk management tools, practices, policies, documentation, and reporting to identify and assess key risks across the organization.
• Conduct risk assessments and scenario analyses; prepare root-cause investigations and lessons learned when incidents occur.
• Support analysis, documentation, and tracking of risk associated with new products, services, technologies, and business initiatives; recommend risk mitigation strategies.
• Provide risk consultation to business units across functions (e.g., operations, engineering, IT) and contribute to control design and evaluation.
• Prepare risk reporting for senior leadership and stakeholders; contribute key risk indicator metrics and insights to the risk dashboard.

Policy & Compliance

• Assist with the ongoing development, review, and implementation of risk policies, procedures, and control standards to align with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with Compliance to ensure ERM strategy aligns with applicable regulations, industry standards, and internal policies.
• Support regulatory readiness, audits, and examinations; respond to inquiries from regulators (e.g., CFPB, NCUA) as needed.

Business Continuity & Resilience

• Support maintenance and testing of business continuity and disaster recovery plans, including facilitating workshops and exercises.
• Identify resilience gaps and recommend continuity enhancements.

Insurance & Third-Party Risk

• Assist in reviewing and managing insurance programs related to enterprise risk exposures.
• Partner with internal teams and brokers to manage claims and risk transfer strategies.
• Participate in third-