Risk Manager Resume Example (2026 Guide)
Risk Manager resume example
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Felix Nolan
[email protected] • (555) 014-7361 • Hartford, CT • linkedin.com/in/felixnolan
Professional Summary
Risk Manager with 15 years of experience in enterprise risk management, corporate insurance and internal controls for a manufacturer, a health system and a public accounting firm. Leads ERM, insurance and business continuity for a $2.4B industrial manufacturer with 11 sites, reporting enterprise risks to the audit committee each quarter. Lowered total cost of risk from 1.12% to 0.86% of revenue and cut SOX key control deficiencies from nine to one. Turns the risk register into decisions by giving every top risk an owner, a key risk indicator and a funded mitigation plan.
Core Skills
- Enterprise Risk Management: ERM framework design, COSO ERM, ISO 31000, risk appetite statements, risk registers, key risk indicators, emerging risk reviews
- Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Risk assessments, heat maps, scenario analysis, root cause analysis, business continuity planning, M&A risk due diligence, third-party risk
- Insurance & Claims: Property and casualty programs, total cost of risk, captive insurance, broker and carrier management, workers’ compensation, cyber and D&O coverage, claims management
- Controls & Compliance: SOX 404, internal controls over financial reporting, control testing, IT general controls, internal audit coordination
- Governance & Board Reporting: Audit committee reporting, board risk presentations, management risk committee, risk policy development
- Tools: Archer, Riskonnect, Origami Risk, ACL Analytics, Power BI, Excel
Education & Certification
- School of Business, part-time program; concentration in Risk Management and Insurance.
Work Experience
Senior Risk Manager, Enterprise RiskMay 2019 – PresentBrightstone Industrial Group, Hartford, CT
- Built the ERM program from a spreadsheet of 140 risks into a COSO-aligned framework with 22 enterprise risks, named owners, risk appetite statements and quarterly key risk indicators.
- Report the top enterprise risks and mitigation status to the audit committee each quarter and to the full board each year, with heat maps and KRI trends reviewed first with the CFO.
- Lowered total cost of risk from 1.12% to 0.86% of revenue over four years by restructuring the $9M property and casualty insurance program, raising retentions and marketing renewals to 14 carriers.
- Cut SOX key control deficiencies from nine to one in two years by mapping enterprise risks to the controls matrix with internal audit and the controller and retesting each fix.
- Reduced recordable workers’ compensation claims by 31% by pairing claims data with the EHS team on ergonomics fixes at the three plants with the highest losses.
- Led risk due diligence on two acquisitions ($180M and $95M), finding environmental, cyber and supplier concentration exposures that were priced into the deals or covered by insurance.
- Rebuilt business continuity plans for 11 sites after a supplier fire stopped one line for six days, adding dual-source plans for 30 critical components with procurement.
- Lead a team of three risk analysts and a claims specialist, and chair the management risk committee of eight business-unit leaders.
Risk and Insurance ManagerMarch 2015 – April 2019Northfield Health Partners, Springfield, MA
- Saved $1.6M at the 2017 renewal by moving professional liability for employed physicians into the health system’s captive, with actuarial support and board approval.
- Managed the $14M insurance program for a four-hospital health system, covering professional liability, cyber, property and directors and officers insurance.
- Reduced hospital professional liability claim frequency by 18% by running root-cause reviews of serious safety events with patient safety and nursing leaders.
- Gave the audit and compliance committee its first ranked view of operational risk by introducing a risk register and annual risk assessment across 40 departments.
- Placed the system’s first standalone cyber liability policy with $10M limits and a pre-approved incident response panel after leading a ransomware tabletop exercise.
Senior Associate, Risk Advisory ServicesJuly 2011 – February 2015Hollister & Grange LLP, Hartford, CT
- Tested SOX 404 internal controls over financial reporting for 12 public company clients in insurance, manufacturing and retail, documenting walkthroughs and deficiencies.
- Found $2.3M in duplicate vendor payments for a manufacturing client using ACL data analytics, leading to recovery and a new vendor master control.
- Led fieldwork teams of three to five associates on risk assessments and co-sourced internal audits, presenting results to client audit committees.
- Wrote control design recommendations for revenue, procurement and IT general controls that 9 of 12 clients adopted before their next external audit.
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Tailor my resumeWhy This Resume Works
- The ERM bullet shows a framework being built, not just named: 140 loose risks became 22 enterprise risks with owners, appetite statements and KRIs, which is what "ERM" means to a CRO.
- Outcomes are measured where risk work can be measured: total cost of risk down from 1.12% to 0.86% of revenue, SOX deficiencies from nine to one and workers’ compensation claims down 31%, fixing the page’s "no metrics" mistake.
- Board reporting is explicit (quarterly to the audit committee, annually to the full board), a keyword and a seniority signal recruiters look for in risk manager postings.
- Insurance, mitigation, controls and business continuity each get their own bullet, covering every keyword on the page without a separate keyword list.
- Audit, then health system insurance, then manufacturing ERM is a logical 15-year path, supported by an MBA, the RIMS-CRMP and the ARM.
Common Resume Mistakes
- No incident or finding metrics.
- Missing ERM or assessment keywords.
- Generic "managed risk" without framework or outcome.
Keywords Recruiters Look For
- Risk management
- ERM
- Risk assessment
- Mitigation
- Insurance
- Board reporting
- SOX
- Control
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