SmartSuite for the Enterprise Risk Director
The Enterprise Risk Director runs the ERM programme day to day: the methodology, the assessment cycles, the risk register and the reporting that keeps the organisation within its risk appetite. They enforce standards, consolidate data and produce the heat maps leadership relies on.
What you own
- Design and maintain the ERM methodology, templates and scoring scales
- Run enterprise-wide risk assessment cycles and keep scoring consistent
- Maintain the enterprise risk register, ownership and KRIs
- Automate mitigation routing, escalation and review cadences
- Link risks to controls, audits and compliance results
- Produce risk summaries, heat maps and executive dashboards
- Enforce ERM standards and documentation requirements across business units
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How they use the Enterprise Risk Management suite
Assessment coordination
Manages enterprise-wide risk assessment cycles and scoring consistency.
Reporting & analytics
Produces risk summaries, heat maps, and executive dashboards.
Program governance
Enforces ERM standards, review cadences, and documentation requirements.
How they use SmartSuite
Dynamic risk register
Maintains a live, centralized risk inventory with scoring and ownership assignments.
Mitigation Workflow Management
Automates task routing, escalation, and review cycles for mitigation actions.
Integrated insights
Links risk data to controls, audits, and compliance results for comprehensive oversight.
Suites that serve this role
How SmartSuite supports this role
Risk management. Maintains a live, centralised risk inventory with scoring, ownership and KRIs, and manages enterprise-wide assessment cycles with standardised templates.
Issues and actions. Automates task routing, escalation and review cycles for mitigation actions so treatment plans do not stall.
Internal audit. Links risk data to controls and audit findings for unified risk and assurance visibility.
Compliance management. Connects compliance obligations to enterprise risks so the register and the obligations library share one model.
Reporting. Produces heat maps, trend analytics and executive dashboards from the register without manual consolidation.
Industry reference
ISO 31000:2018 and COSO ERM (2017) set the method the director operates: a consistent scoring scale, documented assessment cycles, defined ownership and reporting that links risk to objectives. GAO's Green Book and OMB Circular A-123 apply the same discipline to US federal programmes.
Regulated sectors add specifics. Banks and insurers evidence the programme in Basel-based supervisory reviews and the Solvency II or NAIC ORSA; healthcare systems follow ASHRM's enterprise risk management guidance alongside HIPAA's required risk analysis; technology companies typically fold information security risk in through ISO/IEC 27005.
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