Head of Risk

2 weeks ago


United Arab Emirates Revolut Ltd Full time
Head of Risk

About Revolut
People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, more freedom. And since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that.

With an arsenal of awesome products that span spending, saving, travel, transfers, investing, exchanging and more, we've helped 40+ million customers get more from their money.

And we're not done yet.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth, two things are essential to continuing our success: our people and our culture.

We've been officially certified as a Great Place to Work in recognition of our outstanding employee experience So far, we have 10,000+ people working around the world, from our great offices or remotely, on our mission.

And we're looking for more.

We want brilliant people that love building great products, love redefining success, and love turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.


About the role
Our Risk team sits at the very core of Revolut. Those special agents work across functions, products, and regions to monitor front-line performance and ensure that the business is on safe footing People in the Risk team are among the first in the company to get involved in new business initiatives, from App Technology, through Treasury and Finance, to Customer Support


We're looking for a Head of Risk to join one of the most successful financial technology companies in the world, An expert to support the design, implementation, and embedding of the ERM framework.

Someone to join the team which sets out the global risk management approach at Revolut factoring in the business strategy and board-level risk appetite

Up for the challenge? Let's get in touch

What you'll be doing

  • Developing the UAE's risk management strategy and risk appetite in collaboration with the Group Risk Management function
  • Assisting UAE leadership in identifying and assessing risks associated with current and proposed future business activities, including new products, new business relationships, and any extension of operations through partnerships or acquisition
  • Providing independent assurance on the key operational risks of the business, partnering the business to address any identified gaps
  • Monitoring of key risk indicators against prescribed limits together with the senior management team
  • Establishing a strong and productive working relationship with UAE regulators
  • Assessing the key implications for the business and contributing to and supporting the implementation strategy
  • Providing earlywarning, guidance, and advice on upstream and regulatory change
  • Supporting the business in the creation of strong business continuity plans and provide assurance that these plans are sufficient current, and tested
  • Monitoring and developing the UAE risk registers and ensure agreed controls have been embedded into the business
  • Preparing appropriate reporting to help safely grow the business, inform management decisions, and update regulators as appropriate
  • Localising group risk policies and advising the Board on the company's risk profile and the suitability of the risk management framework
  • Followingup of outstanding risk issues from internal/external audits or reviews and regulator visits/inspection

What you'll need

  • 10+ years of work experience in risk management in the financial services sector
  • Broad and tenured expertise and experience in managing risk functions in a successful regulated retail banking environment and experience with setting up and managing respective first or second line of defence risk functions
  • Knowledge of the financial services regulatory landscape impacting risk management (experience in MiFID II, IFR/IFD, Basel III regulation will be considered an advantage)
  • Technology and data savvy ability to innovatively create and analyse data in order to generate meaningful and important business and risk insights (ideally proficient with SQL and business intelligence tooling)
  • Strong stakeholder management, project management, problem solving skills

Nice to have

  • Exposure to highgrowth startups or scale ups in finance or across other industries
  • Previous experience as Chief Risk Officer or Head of Risk
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