Risk Management Report

About this template

What eight slides carry

Cover, contents, one divider, one body slide, a two-column comparison, four metric cards, a trend chart, closing. A single section makes this a ten-minute risk update to a management committee, not a full risk register. Keep the whole list in a separate table, bring the top three items here, and append the rest. If you need more categories, duplicate slides 3 and 4 as a pair.

The four contents lines already speak risk

The contents page reads risk map, likelihood and impact, key figures, trend analysis, with a “4 items in total” note underneath. The first line is carried by the divider and body on slides 3-4, the second by the two-column slide 5, the third by the cards on slide 6, the fourth by the bars on slide 7, so no line exists without a screen behind it. If you want to split the report by category – financial, operational, regulatory – duplicate the 3-4 pair, add contents lines, and update both the “4 items in total” note and the SECTION 01 / PART 01 labels on the divider. The same applies when you delete a line.

Filling it in

1. Add scope and period under the cover title, for example Q1 2026 Risk Report, Management Committee, and update the ISSUE 01 · 2026 and NO. 01 markers on the cover.
2. Match the PART 01 risk map title on the divider and the body title on slide 4 to the one category you are actually covering.
3. Slide 4 has three numbered lines, shipped as 42 risks identified, 7 in the high-severity band, 5 newly registered in the quarter. Do not stop at counts: put the risk, its impact and the owner on each line so something continues after the meeting.
4. Slide 5 stands A, risks most likely to occur, against B, risks with the largest impact, three lines each. That is where you select the top risks.

Example body lines

• Example: 01 – top three accounts are 61% of revenue; losing one cuts quarterly revenue 12%; sales to add two accounts by June.
• Example: 02 – single payment gateway integration; an outage stops all orders; engineering to add a backup provider in April.
• Example: 03 – personal data retained past its period; security team to purge by end of March and schedule automatic deletion.

To show likelihood and impact on the same line, prefix it with a grade such as (likelihood medium / impact high) – it fits the existing layout.

Metrics and chart

The four cards on slide 6 ship as 42 registered risks, 7 high severity, 78% of mitigations delivered and a 4-hour recovery objective; the 42 and the 7 also appear on slide 4, so never change one alone. Keep counts you can recount identically next quarter, and state the denominator (42) and the cut-off date under the 78%. The note saying the figures are examples is still printed under the cards – delete it once real numbers are in. If you want a tile for overdue actions, replace the recovery objective. The four bars are risk index by category (strategy 64, finance 48, operations 72, regulation 35), not a time series, while the note box beside them describes a quarterly index chart, so the picture and the caption disagree: fix the note box if you keep the category comparison, or relabel and resize the shapes if you plot high-severity risks by quarter (8, 11, 9, 6).

Common mistakes

• Listing risks with no owner or due date – the usual reason nothing happens afterwards.
• Leaving slide 5 on the sample risks: FX-driven cost increases, key staff leaving and supplier delays on the left; losing a major account, a data breach and an extended production stoppage on the right. Replace them with your own.
• Mixing incidents that already happened into a forward-looking list.
• Leaving the repeated “company / organization · 2026” header and the closing thank-you text as defaults.