Risk Manager

THE COMPANY:

We are delighted to be working with a great client who are an award-winning fintech company, offering an advanced transaction payments platform and APIs for emerging payments and financial services. They are looking for a Risk Manager for their London team.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as the day to day owner of PCS risk management framework, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and mitigated.
• Maintain the risk register and in some cases update the Business-Wide to ensure alignment with regulatory expectations and business objectives.
• Coordinate with risk owners across the business to ensure accountability and timely remediation of risks.
• Produce regular MI and risk dashboards for the Board, Group risk and compliance committee, and regulators.
• Lead the integration of new regulatory requirements into the risk framework (e.g., DORA, failure to prevent fraud).
• Close off audit items and manage risk audit
• Provide training to the business
• Clearly conveying risk assessments, reports, and recommendations to executives, teams, and regulators, while influencing action and compliance
• Work with the board to develop a risk strategy
• Educate the business on risk and set risk maps

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Solid understanding of Risk management and of UK and EU regulatory frameworks
• At least 5 years of experience working within risk management within a regulated financial institution (e-money, payments, fintech, banking, FX, trading).
• Experience developing and maintaining risk frameworks, registers, and MI reporting.
• Experience in a managerial level or similar position
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound, data-driven decisions in complex compliance and risk management scenarios.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the capacity to effectively advocate for solutions and gain buy-in from diverse stakeholders