Risk and Controls Director

Page Executive; City Of London; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Risk and Controls Director for a Payments/Fintech organisation in London. The successful candidate will ensure alignment of risk frameworks with strategic objectives and manage a team of ERM specialists. Excellent communication and proven C-level management experience in enterprise risk management are essential. This role offers a highly competitive salary, benefits, and bonus.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Benefits

Bonus

Qualifications

• Proven senior management experience at C-level in ERM preferably in payments, fintech or retail banking.
• Significant professional experience in managing a team of ERM specialists.
• Experience of recovery and resilience planning incorporating risk assessments and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure risk frameworks align to strategic objectives and drive governance.
• Monitor and assess the risk horizon for emerging operational and regulatory risks.
• Design and oversee enterprise risk management practices.

Skills

C-level management experience in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Team management of ERM specialists

Understanding of Governance, Risk and Regulatory Compliance

Experience with risk frameworks

Recovery and resilience planning

Excellent communication skills

Job description

• Risk and Controls Director for a Payments/Fintech organisation
• enterprise risk, opps risk, C level, strategy

About Our Client

Payments/Fintech organisation

Job Description

I am recruiting a Risk & Controls Director for a Payments/Fintech organisation based in London. As a member of the executive board the Risk and Controls Director will:

• Ensure risk and control frameworks are fully aligned to the Board strategic objectives and drive ownership, transparency and robust decision making through effective governance, risks and controls management.
• Build and maintain organisational and operational resilience across t.
• Develop and promote the current strong risk stewardship culture across the organisation to provide timely identification and management of risk/control issues.
• Support the Board to define risk appetite and monitor compliance.
• Design, implementation and oversight of enterprise risk management
• Ensure risk and control defence management operates effectively across the organisation and support the outsourced Internal and External Audit activities.
• Responsibility for management of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework, ensuring best practice is adopted.
• Monitor and assess the risk horizon for new/emerging operational and regulatory risks.

The Successful Applicant

You will have:

• Proven senior management experience at C-level in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) over preferably in payments, fintech or retail banking financial services.
• Significant professional experience in managing a team of ERM specialists.
• An understanding of Governance, Risk and Regulatory Compliance policies, controls and best practice.
• Experience of Risk frameworks and the management of enterprise risks across a dynamic business with a good understanding of technology and service delivery management.
• Experience of recovery and resilience planning incorporating risk assessments, threat modelling and cyber security incident management.
• Proven leadership skills including performance management and improvement, measurement of KPIs, situational leadership, issue resolution, negotiation and motivating others
• Demonstrable experience in a stakeholder-facing role to Board level.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work streams simultaneously.
• Demonstrate experience in identifying, classifying and managing risks across an organisation.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-moving IT landscape and keep pace with the latest thought-leadership and technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate security and risk-related concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

What's on Offer

Highly competitive salary, benefits and bonus