Group Chief Risk Officer, Fintech, Dubai

Emerald Zebra Ltd; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 600,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Performance-linked bonuses

Long-term incentives

Global impact and leadership role

Job summary

Emerald Zebra Ltd. seeks a Group Chief Risk Officer to establish a zero-tolerance risk framework across digital assets, FX, CFDs, and equities. You will lead a global team, setting risk appetite, implementing real-time engines, and ensuring regulatory alignment across Dubai, India, Europe, and remote hubs.

You will shape enterprise risk governance, surveillance, and custody risk while partnering with executives to safeguard trading ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership in risk functions at global trading platforms (FX/CFD/crypto).
• Experience with multi-jurisdiction regulatory frameworks.
• 15-20 years of senior executive risk experience.
• Deep understanding of market-making and liquidity provider integration.
• Proven track record of preventing losses and managing exposure with real-time risk systems.
• Technical competence in quantitative risk and real-time surveillance.
• Experience with MPC and digital asset security frameworks.
• Experience managing institutional and retail trading flows.

Responsibilities

• Build the Group Risk Framework covering market, liquidity, operational, cyber, compliance, technology and credit risk.
• Establish three-lines-of-defence architecture across all trading platforms and desks.
• Define risk appetite limits, capital buffers, stress tests and escalation protocols.
• Implement real-time risk engines for FX CFDs, equities, crypto and leverage controls.
• Create surveillance for price manipulation, wash trading, and latency abuse.
• Oversee treasury, custody risk governance and counterparty onboarding.
• Govern digital asset custody across retail, institutional, OTC and treasury operations.
• Lead product governance and regulatory risk across jurisdictions.
• Build a 24/7 global risk function with cross-regional teams.
• Drive incident response, business continuity and vendor risk management.

Skills

Senior risk leadership

Multi-jurisdiction compliance

15-20 years experience

Market-making & liquidity

Loss prevention & exposure management

Real-time risk systems

Quantitative risk expertise

Digital asset custody risk

MPC & digital security

Institutional & HNWI flows

Job description

Industry: Multi-Asset Digital Trading Platform Role Type: Full-time Executive (C-Level) Location: Dubai (primary) with oversight of India Cyprus Poland Mauritius and remote global teams. Reports to: Group CEO/Founder.

WHO SHOULD APPLY READ CAREFULLY

APPLY ONLY IF YOU HAVE:

• 15-20 years of senior executive experience in enterprise risk management for multi-asset trading platforms.
• Direct leadership building risk engines frameworks and global teams across FX CFDs equities cryptocurrency spot perpetual futures and copy-trading environments.
• Proven track record operating at board and regulatory level across multiple jurisdictions.
• Deep technical competence in quantitative risk real-time surveillance systems and digital asset custody frameworks.
• Experience managing institutional HNWI and retail trading flows simultaneously.

DO NOT APPLY IF:

• You have only worked in single-asset or single-jurisdiction environments
• Your risk experience is limited to traditional banking without trading platform exposure
• You lack senior leadership in risk functions at global trading platforms foreign exchange brokers Contracts for Difference platforms banks or cryptocurrency exchanges.

Role Purpose

The Group Chief Risk Officer is accountable for building a zero-tolerance risk-controlled trading and platform ecosystem across all business verticals spanning digital assets foreign exchange contracts for difference and equities.

The CRO owns every component of enterprise risk trading risk operational risk liquidity risk regulatory risk and market abuse prevention across:

• Institutional and High-Net-Worth client flows
• Retail user flows
• Foreign Exchange Contracts for Difference and Equities trading
• Cryptocurrency spot perpetual futures margin and copy trading
• Treasury liquidity hedging and bridge flows
• Market-making counterparties and internal inventory
• Multi-regulator environments (Dubai VARA Mauritius FSC Poland VASP FIU India Cyprus etc.)

Key Responsibilities 1. Enterprise Risk Framework (Group-Wide)

• Build the Group Risk Framework covering market liquidity operational cyber compliance technology and credit risk
• Establish three-lines-of-defence architecture across all trading platforms OTC treasury and institutional desks
• Define risk appetite limits capital buffers stress tests and escalation protocols

2. Trading Risk & Market Surveillance

Implement real-time risk engines for:

• Foreign exchange CFDs and equities
• Cryptocurrency spot and perpetual futures
• Margin lending and leverage controls
• Copy trading risk controls (leader risk scoring follower allocation limits)

Build surveillance systems for:

• Price manipulation
• Wash trading
• Abusive order flow
• Latency abuse
• Insider activity

Create risk halts kill switches automatic deleveraging rules and liquidation parameters.

3. Liquidity Treasury & Counterparty Risk

• Oversee treasury operations for all fiat and digital asset flows
• Set counterparty onboarding criteria for liquidity providers market makers brokers and custodians
• Define liquidity stress rules intraday funding controls and internal net-off logic

4. Digital Asset Custody Risk & Governance

Take full ownership of risk governance within the digital asset custody ecosystem including:

• Oversight of policy engine rules transaction signing policies routing logic and approval thresholds
• Designing MPC-based workflow controls for withdrawals deposits internal transfers and treasury movements
• Implementing segregation of wallets for retail clients institutional clients operational hot wallets treasury cold wallets and market-making/hedging wallets
• Continuous monitoring of transaction logs risk alerts and anomaly detection
• Ensuring no single point of failure exists in signing approvals or emergency access
• Periodic review of custody configurations to match changing regulatory obligations across all jurisdictions
• Integrating custody systems with internal risk dashboards for exposure tracking counterparty monitoring and liquidity risk
• Approving new workspace setups vaults and asset enablement requests
• Conducting quarterly access control permissions and role audits across all internal teams
• Designing emergency protocols for key recovery platform downtime transaction halts and wallet compromise scenarios
• Owning the end-to-end digital asset custody risk framework across retail institutional OTC and treasury operations

5. Product Risk Governance

No product goes live without the CROs sign-off.

This includes:

• Perpetual futures parameters
• Margin tiers
• Copy-trading frameworks
• New tokens and new CFD assets
• Staking earn or structured products
• High-frequency or high-leverage products

6. Regulatory & Jurisdictional Risk

• Ensure global alignment across Dubai VARA Mauritius FSC Poland VASP FIU India Cyprus and any other jurisdictions
• Maintain documentation audit trails incident reporting and risk capital assessment
• Engage with regulators directly when required

7. Operational Risk & Business Continuity

• Build Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) for all markets
• Create incident-response playbooks across liquidity pricing technology and compliance
• Ensure vendor risk management infrastructure risk scoring and data protection controls

8. Team Building & Leadership

Build a global risk function including:

• Market Risk
• Liquidity & Treasury Risk
• Operational Risk
• Regulatory & Compliance Risk
• Technology & Cyber Risk
• Model Validation
• Surveillance & Monitoring

This team must function 24/7 across Dubai India Europe and remote hubs.

Candidate Profile Must-Have Experience

• Senior leadership in risk functions at global trading platforms FX brokers CFD platforms banks or cryptocurrency exchanges
• Experience with complex multi-jurisdiction regulatory frameworks.
• 15-20 years experience
• Deep understanding of market-making liquidity provider integration and institutional flows
• Proven record of preventing losses managing exposure and implementing real-time risk systems

Technical Competence

• Quantitative risk knowledge (models stress tests margining)
• Strong understanding of technology matching engines bridges and pricing feeds
• Knowledge of blockchain wallets custody and transaction risk
• Experience with MPC (Multi-Party Computation) and digital asset security frameworks

What We Offer

Competitive compensation package in line with top-tier industry standards

Performance-linked bonus structures

• Long-term incentives aligned with company growth
• Opportunity to build a world-class risk function from the ground up
• Direct impact on the strategic direction of a global multi-asset trading platform