Senior Risk Manager: Regulatory & Stress Testing Lead

Lever, Inc.; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-from-home arrangement

Global team environment

Opportunities for growth and learning

Job summary

Binance is building a dedicated risk capability in Abu Dhabi with senior leadership to support the Head of Risk for the RCH and RIE. The role focuses on turning regulatory requirements into executable risk policies, metrics, and governance processes to meet FSRA expectations.

You will lead risk analytics, stress testing, and model risk in a regulated, high-growth fintech environment. You will coordinate regulatory submissions, manage cross‑entity risk data, and contribute to risk packs for

Qualifications

• 10+ years in risk management within regulated financial institutions.
• Strong quantitative skills with hands-on methodology experience: stress testing design, VaR or tail-risk measures, collateral haircut frameworks, market impact or liquidation analysis.
• Experience with risk data engineering realities: exposure aggregation, reconciliation between risk and business systems, and data quality remediation.
• Clear, structured written and verbal communication and be able to produce decision-ready papers, regulatory submissions, and model documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on ambiguous problems: defining the framework when the policy exists only in outline.
• Comfortable working in a high-growth, highly regulated environment where standards, processes, and controls continue to evolve.
• Based in Abu Dhabi; presence at ADGM premises as required.
• Desirable: CFA/FRM or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Draft, maintain and operationalise the risk policy suite across the RIE and RCH, including Risk Management Framework, Credit Policy and Procedures, Margin Policy, Collateral Policy, Stress Testing Policy, and related standards.
• Coordinate regulatory submissions and engagement across both entities; prepare prudential reporting deliverables and reconcile inputs.
• Own risk analytics: risk identification and assessment methodologies, KRI dashboards, risk registers and taxonomy maintenance.
• Build and run the stress testing programme: scenario design, liquidity and capital measures, reverse stress testing.
• Develop and maintain margin and collateral risk methodologies: haircut calibration, concentration metrics, governance materials for quarterly review.
• Support prudential risk assessment within incident escalation; draft risk sections of post-incident reviews.
• Operate the model inventory: documentation, performance monitoring, validation reviews, and risk reporting.
• Own risk data infrastructure: risk engine outputs, exposure aggregation, limit monitoring, data quality issues.
• Prepare risk committee and governance papers, monitor risk appetite, and engage business lines for new product assessments.

Skills

Quantitative skills

Regulated finance experience

Risk management

Data engineering

Regulatory engagement

Communication

Independent working

High-growth environment

Tools

Risk analytics tools

Job description

Binance is building a dedicated risk capability in Abu Dhabi with senior leadership to support the Head of Risk for the RCH and RIE. The role focuses on turning regulatory requirements into executable risk policies, metrics, and governance processes to meet FSRA expectations.

You will lead risk analytics, stress testing, and model risk in a regulated, high-growth fintech environment. You will coordinate regulatory submissions, manage cross‑entity risk data, and contribute to risk packs for