[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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