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Lead Consultant, Enterprise Risk – Risk Insights & Monitoring

Target Minneapolis, MN Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$95,000 - $171,000 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Lead Consultant, Enterprise Risk – Risk Insights & Monitoring to join our team. As a Lead Consultant, Risk Insights & Monitoring, you will lead cross-functional development of enterprise risk and control monitoring standards that strengthen governance and control effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead cross-functional development of enterprise risk and control monitoring standards that strengthen governance and control effectiveness.
  • Partner with risk owners to convert documented controls into monitorable controls and practical KPIs/KRIs that demonstrate control performance.
  • Develop and implement monitoring procedures and routines to evaluate the effectiveness and sustainability of internal controls across multiple business areas and compliance domains.
  • Identify monitoring gaps, data limitations, and unmonitorable controls; establish compensating testing or validation strategies to ensure coverage of key risks.
  • Enhance traceability between risks, controls, monitoring metrics, testing results, and findings within Risk Cloud to improve transparency and reporting accuracy.
  • Develop a strong understanding of regulatory expectations, industry trends, and emerging risks to inform monitoring strategies and governance priorities.
  • Influence compliance program leaders and key stakeholders regarding monitoring solutions, implementation strategies, and maturity expectations.
  • Lead complex analysis of monitoring data, control performance trends, and risk indicators to identify emerging issues and drive risk-based mitigation strategies.
  • Establish trusted relationships with risk owners to support adoption of monitoring standards and continuous improvement actions.
  • Collaborate with Technology, Data, Internal Audit, and stakeholders to support dashboard development, data quality improvements, and integrated assurance visibility.
  • Support risk governance by defining risk driver metrics, escalation triggers, and executive-ready reporting insights.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Risk Management, Compliance, or related area of study, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience supporting compliance, risk management, audit, or controls assurance frameworks and processes.
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives that impact multiple compliance programs or business units.
  • Strong interpersonal and stakeholder collaboration skills with the ability to facilitate meetings, resolve conflict, build consensus, and influence without direct authority.
  • Effective root cause analysis skills with the ability to use analytical and critical thinking to identify risks, evaluate control effectiveness, and recommend improvement actions.
  • Effective communication skills with the ability to create transparency, confidence, and influence across all levels of Target team members.
  • Ability to design and implement monitoring routines, metrics frameworks, and governance processes that scale across a federated compliance environment.
  • Ability to plan, execute, monitor, and close projects to meet specific objectives in response to ambiguous, changing, or competing priorities.
  • Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining appropriate prioritization and adherence to deadlines.
  • Ability to apply discretion and sensitivity while working with confidential information.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary: $95,000.00 - $171,000.00 per year
  • Comprehensive health benefits and programs
  • 401(k)
  • Employee discount
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Risk Cloud
  • Governance, Risk, and Compliance technology platforms
  • Dashboard development
  • Metrics frameworks
  • Data-driven reporting solutions
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