Risk Officer for Synthix (Fintech/SaaS)

Position Overview

Job Title: Risk Officer for Synthix (Fintech/SaaS)

Location: London

Corporate Title: Vice President

Synthix is a Deutsche Bank–backed SaaS fintech building multi-bank, treasury, and payment orchestration platforms. We connect corporate clients with banks, Payment Service Providers (PSPs), and ERP systems at scale. While closely integrated with Deutsche Bank’s ecosystem, Synthix operates as a standalone, unregulated fintech with its own technology, data, and operating model.

As Synthix scales, we require senior, hands-on legal and technology risk leadership to ensure our products, client contracts, data usage, and operating model are robust, defensible, and future-proof in a fast-evolving regulatory and technology landscape.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days

• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family

• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits

• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Own and lead first-line risk management for Synthix, acting as the primary risk adviser to product, engineering, and commercial teams

• Advise on fintech, payments, technology (with a focus on AI), and data protection law, translating legal obligations into practical, scalable controls for a SaaS platform

• Define and manage Synthix’s risk posture as an unregulated, DB-backed fintech, including interface with Deutsche Bank governance, Legal, Compliance, and Risk functions

• Lead client assurance, due diligence, and contractual risk discussions, clearly articulating Synthix’s legal, regulatory, and data risk position to clients and procurement teams

• Own incident response and post-incident risk assessment, including data, technology, outsourcing, and client-impacting events

• Embed risk-by-design principles into product architecture, AI usage, data models, and payments flows without slowing delivery

Your skills and experience

• LLM-qualified lawyer with strong academic grounding in financial services, payments, technology, or data law

• Hands-on experience working inside a fintech (as legal counsel, compliance, data protection, or risk), preferably in payments, banking-as-a-service, or SaaS platforms

• Deep working knowledge of payments regulation, fintech law, outsourcing, data protection (UK/EU GDPR), and technology risk

• Proven ability to advise on AI, data usage, platform architecture, and emerging technology risk from a legal and regulatory perspective

• Experience managing risk for unregulated or lightly regulated entities operating alongside regulated banks or financial institutions

• Demonstrated ability to personally own risk decisions and provide clear, pragmatic advice — not consulting or theoretical ERM

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• Coaching and support from experts in your team

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers .

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