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