Senior Director of Risk

Job description

HIRING: Director / Senior Director of Risk

We are partnering with a fast-growing global FinTech business to appoint a Director / Senior Director of Risk .

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for an experienced risk professional who knows how to build, not just maintain .

The business operates internationally and partners with some of the world's leading financial services and FinTech brands. As the company continues to scale, they are looking for a senior risk leader to strengthen and evolve their enterprise-wide risk governance framework .

Reporting directly to the CFO , you will act as the second line of defence and work closely with senior stakeholders across Commercial, Legal, Finance, Operations and IT Security.

What you'll own:

Build and evolve the enterprise risk governance framework, including risk appetite, standards and accountability

Lead the company's Risk Committee and drive remediation and accountability across functions

Own counterparty risk across clients and suppliers, including credit, reputational and concentration risk

Develop commercial risk frameworks governing clients, use cases and deal structures

Provide senior-level risk guidance on complex client situations and unusual or high-risk commercial arrangements

Oversee customer risk and due diligence assessments

Partner with IT Security on cyber and technology risk

Support assurance requirements including ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI DSS

Own the Business Continuity Management (BCM) framework

Oversee legal, regulatory, contractual and data privacy risk, including GDPR and CCPA

What we’re looking for:

10+ years' experience in Risk Management, in USA and/or Asia and/or Europe

Strong exposure to commercial/business risk , ideally working directly with Commercial, Business Development or Client Management teams

Experience designing and implementing commercial risk frameworks

Proven experience building or significantly evolving Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) programmes

Strong knowledge of counterparty, supplier and concentration risk

Experience with BCM and business resilience

Working knowledge of legal, regulatory and data privacy risk

Enough understanding of cyber/IT security risk to effectively challenge and partner with technical teams

Experience within a FinTech, financial services, technology or similarly high-growth environment

Comfortable building frameworks from scratch in a lean, fast-moving organisation

Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to challenge senior leadership when required

This is not a role for someone who only wants to operate an established risk framework .

We are looking for a pragmatic, commercially minded risk leader who can balance risk versus revenue , bring structure without unnecessary bureaucracy, and build a function that can scale alongside a rapidly growing international business.

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Worksite address

new york, NY, 10261, US

Who can apply

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