Risk Manager - Abu Dhabi

Copper; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Risk Manager to join their dynamic team. This role involves supporting the Chief Risk Officer in implementing a robust risk assessment framework and ensuring the effectiveness of risk systems and procedures. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in risk governance, particularly within the fintech sector, and will be adept at managing security risks and compliance. By joining this forward-thinking firm, you will play a crucial role in safeguarding assets and enhancing operational resilience in a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about risk management and ready for a rewarding challenge, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in risk governance and security, preferably in fintech.
• Strong awareness of process controls and technology relevant to fintech.

Responsibilities

• Support the Chief Risk Officer with risk assessment and controls.
• Manage risk oversight of high security environments and technologies.

Skills

Risk Management

Security Governance

Process Controls

Operational Risk Acumen

Influencing Skills

Education

Risk Management Certifications

Security Certifications (CISA, CISM, CISSP)

Job description

Since being founded in 2018, Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody, collateral management, and prime services.
Led by Amar Kuchinad, Copper's Global CEO, the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody, trading, and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Copper's offering is Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology, the gold standard in secure custody. Copper's multi-award winning custody system is unique in that it can be connected to centralized exchanges, DeFi applications, and even staking pools without the assets leaving the custody.
Built on top of this state-of-the-art custody, ClearLoop is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counterparty risk with exchanges. This solution underpins a full prime services offering, connecting global exchanges and enabling customers to trade and settle directly from the safety of their MPC-secured wallets. By reducing settlement time for transfers to a few milliseconds (without blockchain network dependency) and offering enhanced security measures, ClearLoop is rapidly reshaping the way asset managers trade and manage capital.
In addition to industry-leading security certifications, Copper has one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A-rated insurer, positioning the firm as the partner of choice for institutions seeking to safeguard their assets.

Department Environment

The Risk Team at Copper embeds and maintains an effective Enterprise Risk Management Framework across all business lines, ensuring that any risks to the business are identified and assessed. Where applicable, measures are put in place to mitigate or reduce the risk in accordance with regulatory compliance, our approved risk tolerance, risk appetite, and strategic plans.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

Risk Management

• Support the Chief Risk Officer with the risk assessment framework, including the identification of risks, assessing controls, measuring the residual risks, and ensuring the business remains within our risk appetite.
• Analysis, reporting, and tracking of all material risks as a 2nd line function.
• Assisting the design & implementation of quantitative & qualitative strategy & risk controls.
• Ensure the protection of the business with the operational effectiveness of Risk systems & procedures.
• Attend all risk review meetings and contribute to the quarterly Risk Committee, which aims to continually assess and manage all forms of risk across the enterprise.
• Develop, improve, manage, and promote effective Risk Management within a regulated business.

Security

• Risk oversight of high security environments.
• Risk oversight of the technologies used at Copper and the security systems and programmes.
• Conduct security risk assessments for facilities, staff, and life systems e.g. access control.

Resilience

• Assist with the management of resilience programmes for a financial services business with regulatory obligations.
• Managing external clients and/or regulators.

Your Experience, Skills, and Knowledge

• Professional experience working in a role managing risk governance and security, preferably in the fintech space or in a regulated environment.
• Strong awareness of process controls, systems, and technology relevant to a fintech business.
• Understanding of operational, technical, market, and liquidity Risk.
• A working knowledge of the main regulatory frameworks relating to Risk.
• Ability to assert and influence and clearly articulate risks and issues.
• Strong operational risk acumen, including the perceptiveness to identify early key risk indicators.
• Ability to lead and drive controls across products and functions.
• Ability to manage through influence, having the soft skills required to form meaningful cross-functional relationships.
• Assurance programme experience or qualifications.

Desirable

• Risk Management certifications, Security Certifications (CISA, CISM, CISSP, ISO27001 or other relevant certifications desirable).
• Experience working in the cryptocurrency industry desirable.

The Benefits Offered

In return for everything you can bring to Copper, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business with career opportunities and a welcoming working environment.

If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love you to apply for the opportunity.

This role is deemed an Approved Persons role and will require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications and pass fitness and propriety assessments.

Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. So bring us your experience, perspectives, and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. Copper is a Disability Confident Employer; please let us know if you have a disability.

If you require us to provide any assistance during the recruitment process, then we would ask you to highlight this to us and we will be happy to accommodate.

Required Experience:

Manager