Enterprise Risk Director FinTech

Enterprise Risk Director - FinTech Singapore | Hybrid | Up to S$220,000 + equity.

We are working with a rapidly growing international financial technology business looking to appoint an Enterprise Risk Director to build and establish its enterprise-wide risk function from the ground up.

This is a newly created position with broad responsibility across the organisation. The successful candidate will design the Enterprise Risk Management framework, establish risk governance and risk appetite, identify and prioritise key organisational risks, and create the processes required to manage and report these effectively as the business continues to scale internationally.

The scope spans multiple areas of enterprise risk, including operational, third-party, business continuity, legal and compliance, technology and cyber, privacy, financial and commercial risk.

A further important element of the role is Commercial Risk. The Director will partner with Commercial and client-facing teams to help assess risks associated with clients, counterparties, contracts and more complex deal structures, translating the company's overall risk appetite into practical guidance for the business.

This is not a role for someone who has only operated within a mature, highly structured risk organisation. We are looking for someone who has previously built, established or materially evolved a broad risk framework and is comfortable operating hands-on within a growing organisation.

Responsibilities will include:

• Building and evolving the enterprise risk governance framework from the ground up.
• Establishing risk appetite, policies, standards, reporting and accountability across business functions.
• Leading senior-level risk governance discussions and ensuring key risks and remediation actions remain visible and owned.
• Developing Commercial Risk standards covering clients, use cases, contract structures and deal-level risk.
• Working closely with Commercial teams on complex client situations and helping translate risk appetite into practical commercial guidance.
• Assessing counterparty, supplier, credit, reputational and concentration risk.
• Establishing effective third-party and supplier risk oversight.
• Owning the broader Business Continuity Management framework and supporting crisis preparedness.
• Providing second-line oversight across legal, compliance, privacy, cyber and technology-related risks.
• Partnering with specialist teams to support relevant assurance and industry-standard requirements.
• Ensuring risk management remains commercially aware, pragmatic and appropriate for a fast-growing technology business.

What we are looking for: We are only interested in candidates who have worked within FinTech, payments, financial technology or another high-growth technology environment and have had broad exposure across multiple areas of risk.

You should bring:

• Approximately 8+ years experience across risk management.
• Previous experience building or materially developing an Enterprise Risk framework.
• Strong Commercial or Business Risk experience involving direct interaction with Sales, Business Development or Client Management teams.
• The ability to identify commercial and contractual risk and translate this into clear standards and decision-making guidance.
• Broad exposure across enterprise, operational, third-party, business continuity, legal/compliance and technology-related risk.
• Experience operating within a startup, scale-up or similarly fast-changing environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to challenge senior commercial and executive stakeholders constructively.
• The ability to operate hands-on in an environment where processes and infrastructure are still being developed.

Candidates who have only operated within highly established or narrowly specialised risk functions are unlikely to have the breadth required for this particular position.

Why consider it

This is an opportunity to genuinely build the risk function rather than inherit one.

You will have executive visibility, broad organisational influence and the freedom to establish a risk capability capable of supporting continued international growth.

For someone who enjoys combining commercial thinking with enterprise risk and wants their work to have a visible impact across an organisation, the scope is unusually broad.