[Remote] Project Manager, Risk Americas
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Daikin Comfort is a company focused on risk oversight functions in the Americas. They are seeking a Project Manager to serve as the operational backbone for the Americas Risk Committee, responsible for managing project infrastructure and ensuring effective governance processes.
Responsibilities
- Plan, coordinate, and manage all ARC meetings (quarterly and ad hoc)
- Develop decision-focused agendas aligned to ARC priorities with input from ARC facilitators (i.e., Jaime and Manish)
- Prepare and distribute integrated pre-read materials
- Facilitate meeting logistics and ensure clear documentation of outcomes
- Maintain action logs, decision registers, and follow-up tracking
- Track remediation actions, owners, and timelines
- Monitor progress against risk mitigation plans and KPIs/KRIs
- Escalate delays, gaps, or issues to ARC leadership
- Ensure closure and validation of risk actions
- Consolidate inputs from ERM, Internal Audit, and Legal & Compliance
- Develop a single, integrated ARC reporting package
- Ensure consistency in risk taxonomy, scoring, and messaging
- Highlight cross-discipline risk convergence
- Produce executive-level dashboards, heat maps, and trend analysis
- Serve as the primary liaison across ERM, Internal Audit, Legal & Compliance
- Partner with functional leaders to improve risk reporting quality
- Support onboarding of new ARC members and participants
- Provide guidance on ARC expectations, roles, and governance processes
- ARC agendas and meeting materials
- Integrated quarterly ARC reporting package
- Enterprise risk dashboards and heat maps
- Action and decision tracking logs
- Audit Committee risk reporting inputs
- ARC governance documentation and updates
- Perform additional activities/projects to support ongoing business needs
Skills
- Strong project-management and organization skills
- Experience with executive-level reporting and communication
- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights
- Enterprise mindset and cross-functional collaboration
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder influence skills
- High attention to detail with strategic perspective
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and transformation
- Strong strategic thinking capabilities with the ability to naturally translate strategy into plans for execution
- An open, inclusive, team-oriented work style and the ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with employees and leaders at all levels of the organization
- A commitment to the pursuit of excellence, demonstrates a willingness to speak honestly, listen openly, and lead purposefully
- Solid understanding of business concepts, strategic alignment and identification of talent implications
- Excellent strategic planning and operational deployment skills with the ability to integrate and align strategy, people, and activities across functions, processes, and teams
- Ability to grasp issues quickly and form, initiate and carry through design to implementation and measurement
- Ability to thrive and pivot in a fast-paced work environment while navigating change
- Intuitive, strategic and conceptual thinker with an orientation to detail and results
- 12+ years of experience in corporate function project management
- Bachelor's Degree required
- Experience supporting executive governance committees
- Familiarity with COSO ERM, IIA Standards, or similar frameworks
- Strong PowerPoint and executive presentation development skills
- PMP certification preferred
- Japanese language skills and familiarity with Daikin culture are strongly desired
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