Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Director for Global Regulatory Risk Assessment is a critical role in the Global Governance Regulatory & Specialty Legal organization. The role has primary responsibility for executing the activities of the Global Regulatory Risk Assessment (GRRA) team, the team responsible for assessing and developing plans for mitigating Walmart's regulatory risk. The Director actively partners with senior leaders across the business and global governance to mitigate legal and compliance regulatory risks by conducting governance and business unit regulatory risk assessments and driving a consistent approach to assessing risk. Together with the stakeholders, the Director identifies and discusses the root causes of key regulatory risks and proposes action plans designed to mitigate those root causes. The Director will also help manage strategic goals for the GRRA team, including management of governance, standards & controls, and stakeholder engagement.

• Helping to drive Global Governance's regulatory risk assessment strategy.
• Using Legal or Compliance subject-matter experience to identify regulatory risks.
• Using Business subject-matter experience and understanding to assess business initiative processes and plans against regulatory risks and creating actionable steps to reduce identified areas of risk
• Drafting concise and effective, written work product for applicable teams and executive leadership and presenting findings to relevant stakeholders.
• Effectively and timely synthesizing and distilling complex processes.
• Exhibiting strong interpersonal skills and the ability to partner and influence partners within a matrixed organization.
• Exhibiting data and risk analysis experience with the ability to drive engaging, thoughtful risk-oriented discussions in a collaborative manner.
• Independently leading and executing one or more team projects.
• Optimizing processes, standards, and operating procedures for conducting legal and regulatory risk assessments, which includes developing resources for program level risk assessment and risk management activities.
• Exploring opportunities to enhance the GRRA's team's ways of working, including department tools, educational resources, and data streams that may inform the global risk assessment process.

• Quickly grasp the fundamentals of our governance programs and how they relate to our business processes - A thorough assessment process requires a working knowledge of each of those areas and being able to effectively ascertain how risk manifests in our various businesses.
• Draft and assemble comprehensive risk assessment reports - The outputs of every risk assessment are documented. The Director position is responsible for ensuring that the risk assessment reports are well-drafted, accurate, and completed on time.
• Leverage data, metrics, and analytics - Our risk assessment process is data driven and relies on a number of data sources. The Director will be responsible for continuing to evolve and improve how data is used to assess risk. This will include developing risk-relevant analytics, acquiring new data sets, and analyzing metrics (e.g., Business, Compliance, Ethics).
• Forge strong partnerships - The risk assessment process involves stakeholders across the business, corporate functions, and global governance. An effective and efficiently executed risk assessment will require development of a strong and broad network.
• Operate with excellence - The Director will help to drive excellence in every aspect of the process by possessing an understanding of the company's legal, regulatory, and operational requirements.

• You can drive innovation in how we think about risk.
• You have direct experience driving risk assessment processes.
• You have subject-matter experience in internal audit, forensic accounting, legal, compliance, or investigations.
• You can think on your feet.
• You are strong when it comes to understanding and processing metrics and data.