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Group Chief Risk Officer, Fintech

6 hours ago

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Emerald Zebra Talent Solutions Full time

Industry:
Multi-Asset Digital Trading Platform,

Role Type:
Full-time, Executive (C-Level),

Location:
Dubai (primary), with oversight of India, Cyprus, Poland, Mauritius, and remote global teams.

Reports to:
Group CEO/Founder.

WHO SHOULD APPLY READ CAREFULLY

APPLY ONLY IF YOU HAVE:

  • 15-20+ years of senior executive experience in enterprise risk management for multi-asset trading platforms.
  • Direct leadership building risk engines, frameworks, and global teams across FX, CFDs, equities, cryptocurrency spot, perpetual futures, and copy-trading environments.
  • Proven track record operating at board and regulatory level across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Deep technical competence in quantitative risk, real-time surveillance systems, and digital asset custody frameworks.
  • Experience managing institutional, HNWI, and retail trading flows simultaneously.

DO NOT APPLY IF:

  • You have only worked in single-asset or single-jurisdiction environments
  • Your risk experience is limited to traditional banking without trading platform exposure
  • You lack senior leadership in risk functions at global trading platforms, foreign exchange brokers, Contracts for Difference platforms, banks, or cryptocurrency exchanges.

Role Purpose

  • The Group Chief Risk Officer is accountable for building a
    zero-tolerance, risk-controlled trading and platform ecosystem
    across all business verticals spanning digital assets, foreign exchange, contracts for difference, and equities.
  • The CRO owns every component of
    enterprise risk, trading risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, regulatory risk, and market abuse prevention
    across:
  • Institutional and High-Net-Worth client flows
  • Retail user flows
  • Foreign Exchange, Contracts for Difference, and Equities trading
  • Cryptocurrency spot, perpetual futures, margin, and copy trading
  • Treasury, liquidity, hedging, and bridge flows
  • Market-making counterparties and internal inventory
  • Multi-regulator environments (Dubai VARA, Mauritius FSC, Poland VASP, FIU India, Cyprus, etc.)

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Risk Framework (Group-Wide)

  • Build the Group Risk Framework covering market, liquidity, operational, cyber, compliance, technology, and credit risk
  • Establish three-lines-of-defence architecture across all trading platforms, OTC, treasury, and institutional desks
  • Define risk appetite, limits, capital buffers, stress tests, and escalation protocols

2. Trading Risk & Market Surveillance

  • Implement real-time risk engines for:
  • Foreign exchange, CFDs, and equities
  • Cryptocurrency spot and perpetual futures
  • Margin lending and leverage controls
  • Copy trading risk controls (leader risk scoring, follower allocation limits)
  • Build surveillance systems for:
  • Price manipulation
  • Wash trading
  • Abusive order flow
  • Latency abuse
  • Insider activity
  • Create risk halts, kill switches, automatic deleveraging rules, and liquidation parameters.

3. Liquidity, Treasury & Counterparty Risk

  • Oversee treasury operations for all fiat and digital asset flows
  • Set counterparty onboarding criteria for liquidity providers, market makers, brokers, and custodians
  • Define liquidity stress rules, intraday funding controls, and internal net-off logic

4. Digital Asset Custody Risk & Governance

  • Take full ownership of risk governance within the digital asset custody ecosystem, including:
  • Oversight of policy engine rules, transaction signing policies, routing logic, and approval thresholds
  • Designing MPC-based workflow controls for withdrawals, deposits, internal transfers, and treasury movements
  • Implementing segregation of wallets for retail clients, institutional clients, operational hot wallets, treasury cold wallets, and market-making/hedging wallets
  • Continuous monitoring of transaction logs, risk alerts, and anomaly detection
  • Ensuring no single point of failure exists in signing, approvals, or emergency access
  • Periodic review of custody configurations to match changing regulatory obligations across all jurisdictions
  • Integrating custody systems with internal risk dashboards for exposure tracking, counterparty monitoring, and liquidity risk
  • Approving new workspace setups, vaults, and asset enablement requests
  • Conducting quarterly access control, permissions, and role audits across all internal teams
  • Designing emergency protocols for key recovery, platform downtime, transaction halts, and wallet compromise scenarios
  • Owning the end-to-end digital asset custody risk framework across retail, institutional, OTC, and treasury operations

5. Product Risk Governance

  • No product goes live without the CRO's sign-off.
  • This includes:
  • Perpetual futures parameters
  • Margin tiers
  • Copy-trading frameworks
  • New tokens and new CFD assets
  • Staking, earn, or structured products
  • High-frequency or high-leverage products

6. Regulatory & Jurisdictional Risk

  • Ensure global alignment across Dubai VARA, Mauritius FSC, Poland VASP, FIU India, Cyprus, and any other jurisdictions
  • Maintain documentation, audit trails, incident reporting, and risk capital assessment
  • Engage with regulators directly when required

7. Operational Risk & Business Continuity

  • Build Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) for all markets
  • Create incident-response playbooks across liquidity, pricing, technology, and compliance
  • Ensure vendor risk management, infrastructure risk scoring, and data protection controls

8. Team Building & Leadership

  • Build a global risk function including:
  • Market Risk
  • Liquidity & Treasury Risk
  • Operational Risk
  • Regulatory & Compliance Risk
  • Technology & Cyber Risk
  • Model Validation
  • Surveillance & Monitoring
  • This team must function
    24/7
    across Dubai, India, Europe, and remote hubs.

Candidate Profile

Must-Have Experience

  • Senior leadership in risk functions
    at global trading platforms, FX brokers, CFD platforms, banks, or cryptocurrency exchanges
  • Experience with complex multi-jurisdiction regulatory frameworks.
  • 15-20 years experience
  • Deep understanding
    of market-making, liquidity provider integration, and institutional flows
  • Proven record
    of preventing losses, managing exposure, and implementing real-time risk systems

Technical Competence

  • Quantitative risk knowledge (models, stress tests, margining)
  • Strong understanding of technology, matching engines, bridges, and pricing feeds
  • Knowledge of blockchain, wallets, custody, and transaction risk
  • Experience with MPC (Multi-Party Computation) and digital asset security frameworks

What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation package
    in line with top-tier industry standards
  • Performance-linked bonus structures
  • Long-term incentives
    aligned with company growth
  • Opportunity to build a world-class risk function from the ground up
  • Direct impact on the strategic direction of a global multi-asset trading platform