A leading digital financial services organisation is seeking a visionary Financial Risk Management Head to shape the next chapter of its risk management capability.
This is a rare opportunity for an accomplished risk leader to influence strategy at the highest levels of the organisation, build a best-in-class financial risk function, and help guide business growth through disciplined, forward-looking risk management.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in balancing innovation, growth, and resilience while serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and governance bodies on the organisation's most important financial risk decisions.
Why This Role Matters
As the financial services landscape continues to evolve, organisations need risk leaders who can do more than oversee frameworks and controls. They need leaders who can anticipate emerging risks, turn complex data into strategic insight, and enable growth through sound decision-making.
This role offers the opportunity to:
- Shape enterprise-wide financial risk strategy and influence key business decisions.
- Lead the evolution of risk practices in a complex and rapidly changing environment.
- Partner closely with senior executives and governance bodies on matters that directly impact organisational performance and resilience.
- Build and develop a high-performing team of risk specialists across multiple disciplines.
- Drive the adoption of advanced analytics, stress testing, and data-driven risk management capabilities.
- Leave a lasting impact on the maturity, effectiveness, and future direction of the organisation's risk management framework.
What You Will Lead:
- Provide leadership and strategic direction across key financial risk disciplines, including:
- Capital Management and Concentration Risk
- Credit Risk
- Market and Liquidity Risk
- Payments and Transaction Risk
- Model Risk Management and Stress Testing
- Translate risk appetite into actionable frameworks, limits, monitoring practices, and governance processes that support sustainable growth.
- Drive an integrated approach to financial risk management, ensuring effective coordination across risk categories, stress testing, analytics, and reporting.
- Enhance the organisation's ability to identify, measure, monitor, and manage financial risks through robust governance and data-driven decision-making.
- Lead continuous improvement of risk policies, methodologies, models, and oversight practices to meet evolving business and regulatory expectations.
- Provide independent challenge and strategic advice to executive stakeholders and governance forums on key risk issues, emerging threats, and business initiatives.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and high performance across the financial risk function.
What We're Looking For
Experience
- 12–15+ years of progressive experience in financial or quantitative risk management within banking, fintech, payments, or broader financial services.
- Proven success leading large-scale risk programmes and multidisciplinary teams in complex, regulated environments.
- Deep expertise in one or more major financial risk disciplines, with broad exposure across enterprise financial risk management.
- Experience developing risk frameworks, stress testing programmes, capital management approaches, and strategic risk oversight capabilities.
- Demonstrated engagement with financial regulators and governance bodies.
- Strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving organisational change.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Postgraduate qualifications in business, finance, economics, risk management, or a related field are advantageous.
- Professional certifications such as FRM, PRM, CFA, or CPA are highly regarded.
Leadership Profile
- Strategic Thinker
- Able to connect risk insights with business strategy and influence decisions that shape long-term organisational success.
- Trusted Advisor
- Comfortable engaging with senior executives and governance bodies, providing clear and balanced perspectives on complex risk issues.
- Transformational Leader
- Experienced in building capabilities, leading through change, and elevating risk functions to meet future business needs.
- Analytical and Commercial
- Combines strong quantitative expertise with sound business judgement and an appreciation for growth, customer outcomes, and organisational objectives.
- Regulatory and Governance Expert
- Brings a strong understanding of financial services regulation, governance expectations, and industry best practices.
The Opportunity
This is more than a leadership role—it is an opportunity to shape how financial risk management enables growth, innovation, and resilience within a forward-thinking financial services organisation.
For leaders who are energised by complexity, strategic influence, and building high-performing teams, this role offers significant impact, visibility, and the chance to define the future state of financial risk management.
