Senior Risk Manager

Flexton is a growing IT services and staffing company serving some of the world's most renowned and Fortune-listed companies across industries such as eCommerce, HighTech, Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, and Healthcare. With a global presence spanning the US, Canada, Europe, Colombia, Mexico, and India, Flexton offers its clients cost-effective solutions through onsite, offshore, and nearshore models. Flexton provides its employees with opportunities for growth, meaningful work, and continuous learning!
Senior Risk Manager
Payrate: $195/hr on W2
Desired Start Date: August 17, 2026
Desired End Date: August 16, 2027

• Lead and administer the integrated project risk-management program.
• Establish and maintain risk-management processes, procedures, and governance frameworks.
• Ensure consistent application of risk-management practices across project functions and work packages.
• Integrate risk management with project controls, cost management, schedule management, change management, and project execution.
• Establish risk-management roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, and accountability.
• Facilitate risk reviews, risk workshops, and management discussions.
• Identify, assess, quantify, monitor, and communicate project risks and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain the project risk register.
• Ensure risks are documented with causes, consequences, likelihood, impacts, ownership, and response strategies.
• Identify risk interdependencies and relationships between risks.
• Assign and monitor risk ownership and accountability.
• Perform and/or oversee quantitative cost and schedule risk analyses.
• Develop risk-based cost and schedule models using appropriate quantitative methodologies.
• Evaluate the potential impact of risks on project cost and schedule objectives.
• Conduct probabilistic analysis, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and risk-driver analysis as required.
• Support development of confidence levels, contingency estimates, and management reserve recommendations.
• Work with risk owners to develop practical and measurable risk mitigation strategies.
• Establish mitigation actions, responsible parties, target dates, and expected outcomes.
• Monitor the implementation and effectiveness of mitigation activities.
• Track overdue, ineffective, or deteriorating mitigation actions and escalate significant risks.
• Evaluate residual risk following implementation of mitigation measures.
• Integrate risk management with project planning, scheduling, engineering, procurement, construction, installation, testing, and commissioning activities.
• Monitor emerging conditions that could create new risks or opportunities.
• Conduct forward-looking assessments of project risk exposure.
• Identify trends and leading indicators that may affect project objectives.
• Assess the impact of major project changes on the existing risk profile.
• Support change-control and management decision processes through risk analysis.
• Evaluate cumulative and interconnected risks across project functions.
• Provide early warning of emerging issues and potential project impacts.
• Prepare periodic risk reports, dashboards, and executive-level risk summaries.
• Present significant risks, opportunities, trends, and mitigation status to project leadership.
• Prepare risk information for formal project reviews and management assessments.
• Communicate significant changes in risk exposure to appropriate stakeholders.
• Develop clear visualizations of risk trends, exposure, mitigation status, and risk drivers.
• Facilitate risk workshops and cross-functional risk reviews.
• Provide guidance and training to project personnel on risk identification, assessment, response planning, and monitoring.
• Promote consistent application of risk-management methodologies across project teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve risk-management processes, tools, and reporting.
• Capture and apply lessons learned from risk events and mitigation activities.
• Recommend process improvements based on project experience, industry practices, and emerging risk-management methodologies.
• Provide objective, data-driven, and decision-ready risk information to senior leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Risk Management, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in project risk management, program management, project controls, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience leading risk-management programs for large-scale, complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• Strong knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk-management methodologies.
• Experience performing cost and schedule risk analysis.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and managing project risk registers.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, assess, quantify, monitor, and mitigate project risks.
• Experience developing risk mitigation strategies and tracking corrective actions.
• Strong understanding of project cost, schedule, engineering, procurement, and execution processes.
• Experience collaborating with project managers, engineering teams, project controls teams, and functional stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze complex data, identify risk trends, and communicate impacts to senior leadership.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Experience with risk-management tools, project controls systems, scheduling tools, or data-analysis software.
• Ability to facilitate risk workshops, stakeholder meetings, and executive-level risk reviews.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree or professional certification in Risk Management, Project Management, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
• Professional certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), or equivalent.
• Experience supporting large-scale engineering, infrastructure, technology, research, or industrial projects.
• Experience with quantitative risk analysis tools and Monte Carlo simulation methodologies.
• Experience integrating risk management with cost, schedule, and earned-value management processes.
• Experience supporting major capital projects or complex technical programs.
• Experience developing executive dashboards, risk reports, and decision-support materials.
• Familiarity with industry-standard project risk-management frameworks and best practices.
• Experience with enterprise risk-management, project controls, scheduling, or cost-management platforms.
• Experience leading cross-functional risk workshops and senior management risk reviews.