Group Chief Risk Officer, Fintech, Dubai

Emerald Zebra; Dubai; On-site; AED 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Performance-linked bonuses

Long-term incentives aligned with growth

Global impact role

Job summary

A global multi-asset trading platform is looking for a Group Chief Risk Officer to oversee risk management and governance across multiple jurisdictions. The role requires extensive experience in enterprise risk management within trading platforms, with a focus on building zero-tolerance risk-controlled ecosystems. Candidates must have senior leadership experience and proven skills in quantitative risk and market-making. The position offers a competitive compensation package and long-term growth incentives in Dubai, while overseeing global teams.

Qualifications

• 15-20 years of senior executive experience in enterprise risk management.
• Direct leadership in building risk engines and frameworks for trading platforms.
• Deep technical competence in quantitative risk and surveillance systems.
• Deep understanding of market-making, liquidity provider integration, and institutional flows.
• Proven ability to design and implement real-time risk systems and risk governance.

Responsibilities

• Build the Group Risk Framework covering various risk aspects.
• Implement real-time risk engines for trading.
• Oversee treasury operations for fiat and digital asset flows.
• Ensure risk governance within digital asset custody ecosystem.
• Build global risk function with effective team leadership.
• Oversee liquidity, treasury, counterparty risk, onboarding criteria for liquidity providers and custodians.
• Govern risk governance for digital asset custody including MPC-based controls and dual custody.
• Lead product risk governance and sign-off for new tokens, CFDs, and high-leverage products.
• Ensure regulatory alignment across Dubai VARA, Mauritius FSC, Poland VASP, FIU India, Cyprus and others.

Skills

Senior leadership in risk functions

Experience with complex multi-jurisdiction regulatory frameworks

Deep understanding of market-making

Proven record of preventing losses

Quantitative risk knowledge

Strong understanding of technology and pricing feeds

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 CRO's 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 RiskModel 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