Risk and Controls Director

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

Job summary

A Fintech organisation in London is seeking a Risk & Controls Director to oversee enterprise risk management and ensure governance alignment. This executive role involves guiding risk frameworks, managing compliance, and fostering a risk stewardship culture to safeguard organizational integrity. Candidates should possess significant C-level experience, demonstrate strong leadership capabilities, and be adept in managing enterprise risks across technology-driven environments.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Benefits package

Bonus structure

Qualifications

• Proven senior management experience at C-level in Enterprise Risk Management.
• Understanding of Governance, Risk and Regulatory Compliance policies.
• Experience in managing risks across dynamic businesses.

Responsibilities

• Ensure risk and control frameworks are aligned to strategic objectives.
• Build and maintain organisational and operational resilience.
• Monitor and assess risks for regulatory compliance.

Skills

Governance

Risk Management

Leadership

Communication

Job description

• Risk & 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 competive salary, benefits and bonus.