Alpaca - ERM Program Manager
Requirements
• Mid-career (roughly 5 to 10 years) in operational risk, ERM, GRC, or compliance program management at a regulated financial institution (broker-dealer, fintech, or capital markets). • Built or run a risk register from intake through reporting. Not framework design only. • Can coordinate Legal, Compliance, Finance, Product, Security, and Operations stakeholders without direct authority. • Clear writing: risk statements, executive summaries, board-ready tables. • SEC/FINRA familiarity or equivalent regulated-environment experience. • Who You Might Be (Nice-To-Haves) • Broker-dealer, clearing, or custody operations context. • High-growth fintech where you stood up ERM while the business scaled. • Crypto / digital assets risk register exposure. • Multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction risk consolidation. • Jira service desk or structured intake workflow design. • COSO ERM / ISO 31000 implementation as an operator. • Prior work drafting board or risk committee reporting. • How We Take Care of You: • Competitive Salary & Stock Options • Health Benefits • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card • Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. • Recruitment Privacy Policy
Responsibilities
• This is a hands-on operator role. You will update risk registers yourself, run functional risk lead check-ins, and produce board materials. No direct reports. • Alpaca has the ERM framework, taxonomy, and scoring model. As ERM Program Manager, you will own execution: intake from functional risk leads, risk register hygiene, residual scoring with risk owners, and board-ready reporting on schedule. You report to the CISO / ERM Lead and work closely with the ERM Working Group, functional risk leads, and local entity leaders. • Things You Get To Do • Run the ERM intake cycle end to end: Ticket ingestion, functional interviews, surveys, and ad hoc signals from incidents or operational channels. • Maintain functional and enterprise risk registers in Vanta: owners, inherent and residual scores, mitigations, and status. • Coordinate functional risk lead check-ins, chase blockers, and normalize inputs into the enterprise view. • Map risks to Alpaca's 15 L1 categories and Appendix C L2 subcategories to enterprise scenarios for reporting. • Track mitigation plans, action owners, target dates, and escalations. • Define KRIs with data owners; use proxy metrics where instrumentation is still maturing. • Produce leadership and board ERM materials. • Support ERM Working Group agendas, minutes, and action tracking. • Operate the intake triage workflow: score, dedupe, register action. • Build playbooks and templates for functional leads. • Support local entity quarterly risk updates and escalation hygiene. • Surface emerging risks (crypto, AI, multi-jurisdiction) for review.
Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card • Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. • Recruitment Privacy Policy
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