Risk and Controls Director

London Permanent View Job Description
Risk & Controls Director for a Payments/Fintech organisation
  • 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.

Contact
Kas Rothwell
Quote job ref
JN-042025-6712307

Job summary

Function
Policy, Economics & Regulatory Affairs
Subsector
Policy, Economics & Regulatory Affairs Subsector
Industry
Financial Services
Location
London
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Kas Rothwell
Job reference
JN-042025-6712307

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