Risk Manager

Trading 212 Ltd.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remuneration package

Impactful work

High-performing colleagues

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Trading 212 Ltd. seeks an experienced Risk Manager to support the CRO in shaping and operating the company’s risk management framework.

You will lead in risk identification, assessment, and reporting across multiple risk areas, with emphasis on regulatory compliance and outsourcing controls. The role requires strong knowledge of PSD2, RCSA, and risk appetite frameworks, plus the ability to challenge executives and communicate with the board.

Qualifications

• Extensive risk management experience in regulated financial services.
• Strong knowledge of RCSA, risk appetite frameworks, and incident management.
• Experience with PSD2/EMD2 and own funds calculation methodologies.
• Familiarity with Three Lines of Defence model and second-line oversight.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; board/committee exposure.

Responsibilities

• Support the CRO in developing and maintaining the Risk Management Framework.
• Own day-to-day maintenance of risk policies and annual review cycles.
• Design, own and maintain the Outsourcing policy and risk assessments.
• Oversee and test outsourcing arrangements and ongoing monitoring.
• Assess whether arrangements are critical/important; challenge concentration risk and sub-outsourcing.
• Prepare risk appetite recommendations and reporting to committees and stakeholders.
• Assist in PSD2-related capital requirements calculations.
• Ensure key risk controls are in place for each risk.
• Assist CRO with engagement with regulators and CB Ireland.

Skills

Risk management

Regulatory risk

PSD2 knowledge

Second-line oversight

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

CRO support

Job description

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth

We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love. Fostering a culture of excellence and high velocity is the key to our success. Today, we serve over 6 million clients, with more than €38 billion in assets under management - a testament to the scale and trust we’ve built in just a few years.

About The Role

We're looking for an experienced Risk Manager to support the Chief Risk Officer in the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of the Company's Risk Management Framework. As a senior member of the Second Line of Defence, the Risk Manager will play a key role in ensuring that risks are identified, assessed, managed, monitored, and reported in line with the Company's risk appetite, strategic objectives, and regulatory obligations. The role also serves as deputy to the CRO when required, providing leadership and oversight across the risk management function. T212 is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland as a Payment Institution, and the successful candidate will help ensure the Company maintains a robust and effective risk management framework that supports sustainable growth and regulatory compliance.

What you'll do

• Support the CRO in developing and maintaining the Risk Management Framework for the effective management of all risks across T212 MIE, including the Company’s safeguarding arrangements, outsourcing, and financial crime.
• Own day-to-day maintenance of underlying risk policies, ensuring annual review cycles are met.
• Design, own, and maintain the Outsourcing policy and related risk assessment methodology, ensuring the Outsourcing RMF aligns with regulatory requirements.
• Overseeing and testing outsourcing arrangements’ effectiveness and the ongoing monitoring as performed by the T212 MIE’s relevant functional owner(s).
• Independently assess whether a proposed arrangement is "critical or important"; challenge concentration risk; sub-outsourcing chains; and exit strategy adequacy.
• Prepare risk appetite recommendations and risk position reporting to the Executive Committee relevant Risk committees; and other stakeholders.
• Support the calculation of T212 MIE's own funds requirement under Article 9 of PSD2.
• Ensure adequate and appropriate key risk control frameworks are in place for each Key Risk.
• Support the CRO in the Company's interaction with the CBI and other regulators.
• Ensure significant control failures or limit breaches are escalated to the appropriate person(s) without delay and track remediation of issues identified in risk-related reviews.
• Provide independent challenge to business divisions and functions on strategy and risk-taking activity, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and managed within approved risk appetite.
• Independently review and challenge proposals made by business areas, supporting the CRO's oversight role.

What you need to have

• Risk management experience within a regulated financial services firm, ideally a payment institution, e-money institution, or bank.
• Strong working knowledge of the Three Lines of Defence model and second-line risk oversight.
• Practical experience with Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) methodology; risk appetite frameworks; and incident management frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to independently challenge business leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to Board-level and committee audiences.
• Direct experience with PSD2 and EMD2 regulatory requirements, including own funds calculation methodologies (Method A, B, C, and/or D).
• Experience with safeguarding arrangements for client funds in a payment institution context.
• Experience deputising for or supporting a CRO in a regulated entity.
• Relevant professional qualification, risk management, internal audit, accountancy, legal, or compliance-related certification).

What we offer

• Challenges that will help you grow and realize your potential fast.
• Opportunity to make a significant impact - you will build innovative services used by millions of investors to build wealth.
• Work with smart, spirited, helpful, high-performing colleagues with a common goal.
• An environment where nothing is set in stone.
• Appreciation for your talent and ideas.
• Generous remuneration package

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