615 Head Of Risk jobs in the United Kingdom
Head of Financial Risk Management
Posted 3 days ago
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Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain a robust enterprise-wide risk management framework aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Lead the identification, assessment, and quantification of financial risks across the organisation.
- Design and implement effective risk mitigation strategies and controls.
- Oversee the monitoring of key risk indicators (KRIs) and establish early warning systems.
- Prepare comprehensive risk reports for senior management, the Board of Directors, and regulatory bodies.
- Ensure compliance with relevant financial regulations (e.g., PRA, FCA).
- Manage relationships with external auditors, regulators, and other stakeholders.
- Develop and deliver risk management training programs to staff at all levels.
- Lead and mentor the financial risk management team, fostering a culture of risk awareness and accountability.
- Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making by providing expert risk insights.
- Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field. Professional qualifications such as FRM, CFA, or equivalent are highly desirable.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in financial risk management within the banking or financial services sector.
- Proven expertise in market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, and operational risk management.
- Strong understanding of financial markets, instruments, and regulatory frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing risk management policies and procedures.
- Excellent analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
- Proficiency in risk management software and data analysis tools.
- Ability to operate effectively in a high-pressure environment and make sound judgments.
- This role requires full-time on-site presence at our offices in Cardiff, Wales, UK .
Head of Risk Management
Posted 14 days ago
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Head of Risk Management
Posted 20 days ago
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Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and maintain the organization's enterprise-wide risk management framework and policies.
- Lead the identification, assessment, and monitoring of all significant risks facing the organization.
- Design and oversee risk mitigation strategies and controls to safeguard assets and business continuity.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements and industry best practices (e.g., PRA, FCA guidelines).
- Prepare and present comprehensive risk reports to the board of directors, senior management, and regulatory bodies.
- Develop and manage the risk management team, fostering a strong risk-aware culture throughout the organization.
- Conduct stress testing and scenario analysis to evaluate the impact of adverse events.
- Oversee the internal audit function's assessment of risk management processes.
- Advise senior leadership on risk appetite, risk tolerance, and emerging risk trends.
- Manage relationships with external auditors, regulators, and risk management consultants.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in risk management, preferably within the financial services industry.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing enterprise-wide risk management frameworks.
- In-depth knowledge of various risk types (credit, market, operational, liquidity, strategic) and mitigation techniques.
- Strong understanding of financial regulations and compliance requirements.
- Excellent leadership, team management, and strategic planning skills.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
- Proficiency in risk modeling, data analysis, and relevant software.
- Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a hybrid environment, demonstrating both leadership and collaborative spirit.
This is a unique opportunity to hold a senior leadership position, influencing the strategic direction of a respected financial institution while benefiting from a flexible hybrid working arrangement. The role is central to the organization's resilience and success. Opportunities for remote work will be integrated into the hybrid schedule, supporting the successful candidate in their role based out of Norwich, Norfolk, UK .
Head of Risk
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Overview:
A rapidly expanding proprietary trading and global markets firm is seeking a Head of Risk to lead the design and execution of its enterprise-wide risk framework. The firm has deep roots in global markets and prime brokerage, and is now scaling aggressively into multi-asset proprietary trading strategies and client-facing financing. This is a senior, high-impact role reporting directly to the executive team, suited for a candidate with a strong buy-side multi-strategy background who can bridge quantitative risk analytics, governance, and commercial decision-making in a fast paced environment.
The Role:
The Head of Risk will be responsible for building and overseeing the risk management framework across market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk. You will develop and maintain the infrastructure, policies, and culture that enable disciplined growth while supporting an entrepreneurial trading environment. You’ll work closely with trading, finance, technology, and compliance teams to ensure all activities are conducted within the firm’s risk appetite, while enabling strategic expansion into new asset classes and products.
Key Responsibilities
- Risk Framework Design: Define and implement the firm’s overall risk management framework, spanning proprietary trading and prime brokerage activities.
- Market & Portfolio Risk Oversight: Establish methodologies for exposure measurement, VaR, scenario analysis, stress testing, and drawdown control across multi-asset portfolios.
- Credit & Counterparty Risk: Oversee margining, collateral, and exposure management across counterparties, clients, and clearing relationships.
- Liquidity & Capital Management: Partner with Finance and Treasury to align capital allocation, internal pricing of risk, and regulatory capital requirements.
- Operational & Model Risk: Identify and mitigate operational risks across trading and technology infrastructure; validate and challenge models and assumptions where relevant. • Governance & Reporting: Lead risk committee processes, define escalation thresholds, and deliver clear, actionable reports to senior management and the board.
- Technology Integration: Collaborate with technology teams to develop or refine risk systems and real-time monitoring tools.
- Team Leadership: Build and manage a small, high-performing risk function, fostering a culture of accountability and proactive risk management.
- Strategic Projects: Assess new product lines, asset classes, and jurisdictions from a risk perspective, ensuring appropriate controls before launch.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experience: 10+ years in risk leadership roles within a multi-strategy hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or global markets / prime brokerage environment.
- Expertise: Strong grasp of market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk, with experience designing frameworks in growth or transformation-stage firms.
- Quantitative Rigor: Comfort with risk modelling, stress testing, VaR, and scenario design; able to challenge and validate models with data-driven reasoning.
- Commercial Acumen: Adept at translating complex risk concepts into business context and engaging with trading and executive stakeholders.
- Regulatory Awareness: Familiar with UK/EU financial regulations and risk governance expectations for trading and brokerage firms.
- Leadership: Proven ability to build, develop, and lead teams while working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of providing clear, concise reporting and influencing at board level.
Preferred:
- Experience in a regulated prime brokerage or prop trading environment.
- Advanced quantitative or financial degree (MSc/PhD/CFA/FRM).
- Familiarity with real-time risk monitoring, automation, or big data applications in trading risk.
- Exposure to multi-asset or global market strategies.
Why This Role
- Join a firm in rapid expansion mode with the opportunity to shape its risk culture from the ground up.
- Direct influence over risk policy, governance, and infrastructure.
- Exposure to a broad set of trading strategies and global markets.
- Senior leadership visibility and collaboration with top-tier trading and executive talent.
- Entrepreneurial environment with strong financial backing and institutional rigor.
Head of Risk
Posted today
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Overview:
A rapidly expanding proprietary trading and global markets firm is seeking a Head of Risk to lead the design and execution of its enterprise-wide risk framework. The firm has deep roots in global markets and prime brokerage, and is now scaling aggressively into multi-asset proprietary trading strategies and client-facing financing. This is a senior, high-impact role reporting directly to the executive team, suited for a candidate with a strong buy-side multi-strategy background who can bridge quantitative risk analytics, governance, and commercial decision-making in a fast paced environment.
The Role:
The Head of Risk will be responsible for building and overseeing the risk management framework across market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk. You will develop and maintain the infrastructure, policies, and culture that enable disciplined growth while supporting an entrepreneurial trading environment. You’ll work closely with trading, finance, technology, and compliance teams to ensure all activities are conducted within the firm’s risk appetite, while enabling strategic expansion into new asset classes and products.
Key Responsibilities
- Risk Framework Design: Define and implement the firm’s overall risk management framework, spanning proprietary trading and prime brokerage activities.
- Market & Portfolio Risk Oversight: Establish methodologies for exposure measurement, VaR, scenario analysis, stress testing, and drawdown control across multi-asset portfolios.
- Credit & Counterparty Risk: Oversee margining, collateral, and exposure management across counterparties, clients, and clearing relationships.
- Liquidity & Capital Management: Partner with Finance and Treasury to align capital allocation, internal pricing of risk, and regulatory capital requirements.
- Operational & Model Risk: Identify and mitigate operational risks across trading and technology infrastructure; validate and challenge models and assumptions where relevant. • Governance & Reporting: Lead risk committee processes, define escalation thresholds, and deliver clear, actionable reports to senior management and the board.
- Technology Integration: Collaborate with technology teams to develop or refine risk systems and real-time monitoring tools.
- Team Leadership: Build and manage a small, high-performing risk function, fostering a culture of accountability and proactive risk management.
- Strategic Projects: Assess new product lines, asset classes, and jurisdictions from a risk perspective, ensuring appropriate controls before launch.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experience: 10+ years in risk leadership roles within a multi-strategy hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or global markets / prime brokerage environment.
- Expertise: Strong grasp of market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk, with experience designing frameworks in growth or transformation-stage firms.
- Quantitative Rigor: Comfort with risk modelling, stress testing, VaR, and scenario design; able to challenge and validate models with data-driven reasoning.
- Commercial Acumen: Adept at translating complex risk concepts into business context and engaging with trading and executive stakeholders.
- Regulatory Awareness: Familiar with UK/EU financial regulations and risk governance expectations for trading and brokerage firms.
- Leadership: Proven ability to build, develop, and lead teams while working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of providing clear, concise reporting and influencing at board level.
Preferred:
- Experience in a regulated prime brokerage or prop trading environment.
- Advanced quantitative or financial degree (MSc/PhD/CFA/FRM).
- Familiarity with real-time risk monitoring, automation, or big data applications in trading risk.
- Exposure to multi-asset or global market strategies.
Why This Role
- Join a firm in rapid expansion mode with the opportunity to shape its risk culture from the ground up.
- Direct influence over risk policy, governance, and infrastructure.
- Exposure to a broad set of trading strategies and global markets.
- Senior leadership visibility and collaboration with top-tier trading and executive talent.
- Entrepreneurial environment with strong financial backing and institutional rigor.
Head of Risk
Posted today
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Overview:
A rapidly expanding proprietary trading and global markets firm is seeking a Head of Risk to lead the design and execution of its enterprise-wide risk framework. The firm has deep roots in global markets and prime brokerage, and is now scaling aggressively into multi-asset proprietary trading strategies and client-facing financing. This is a senior, high-impact role reporting directly to the executive team, suited for a candidate with a strong buy-side multi-strategy background who can bridge quantitative risk analytics, governance, and commercial decision-making in a fast paced environment.
The Role:
The Head of Risk will be responsible for building and overseeing the risk management framework across market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk. You will develop and maintain the infrastructure, policies, and culture that enable disciplined growth while supporting an entrepreneurial trading environment. You’ll work closely with trading, finance, technology, and compliance teams to ensure all activities are conducted within the firm’s risk appetite, while enabling strategic expansion into new asset classes and products.
Key Responsibilities
- Risk Framework Design: Define and implement the firm’s overall risk management framework, spanning proprietary trading and prime brokerage activities.
- Market & Portfolio Risk Oversight: Establish methodologies for exposure measurement, VaR, scenario analysis, stress testing, and drawdown control across multi-asset portfolios.
- Credit & Counterparty Risk: Oversee margining, collateral, and exposure management across counterparties, clients, and clearing relationships.
- Liquidity & Capital Management: Partner with Finance and Treasury to align capital allocation, internal pricing of risk, and regulatory capital requirements.
- Operational & Model Risk: Identify and mitigate operational risks across trading and technology infrastructure; validate and challenge models and assumptions where relevant. • Governance & Reporting: Lead risk committee processes, define escalation thresholds, and deliver clear, actionable reports to senior management and the board.
- Technology Integration: Collaborate with technology teams to develop or refine risk systems and real-time monitoring tools.
- Team Leadership: Build and manage a small, high-performing risk function, fostering a culture of accountability and proactive risk management.
- Strategic Projects: Assess new product lines, asset classes, and jurisdictions from a risk perspective, ensuring appropriate controls before launch.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experience: 10+ years in risk leadership roles within a multi-strategy hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or global markets / prime brokerage environment.
- Expertise: Strong grasp of market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk, with experience designing frameworks in growth or transformation-stage firms.
- Quantitative Rigor: Comfort with risk modelling, stress testing, VaR, and scenario design; able to challenge and validate models with data-driven reasoning.
- Commercial Acumen: Adept at translating complex risk concepts into business context and engaging with trading and executive stakeholders.
- Regulatory Awareness: Familiar with UK/EU financial regulations and risk governance expectations for trading and brokerage firms.
- Leadership: Proven ability to build, develop, and lead teams while working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of providing clear, concise reporting and influencing at board level.
Preferred:
- Experience in a regulated prime brokerage or prop trading environment.
- Advanced quantitative or financial degree (MSc/PhD/CFA/FRM).
- Familiarity with real-time risk monitoring, automation, or big data applications in trading risk.
- Exposure to multi-asset or global market strategies.
Why This Role
- Join a firm in rapid expansion mode with the opportunity to shape its risk culture from the ground up.
- Direct influence over risk policy, governance, and infrastructure.
- Exposure to a broad set of trading strategies and global markets.
- Senior leadership visibility and collaboration with top-tier trading and executive talent.
- Entrepreneurial environment with strong financial backing and institutional rigor.
Head of Risk
Posted today
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Job Description
Overview:
A rapidly expanding proprietary trading and global markets firm is seeking a Head of Risk to lead the design and execution of its enterprise-wide risk framework. The firm has deep roots in global markets and prime brokerage, and is now scaling aggressively into multi-asset proprietary trading strategies and client-facing financing. This is a senior, high-impact role reporting directly to the executive team, suited for a candidate with a strong buy-side multi-strategy background who can bridge quantitative risk analytics, governance, and commercial decision-making in a fast paced environment.
The Role:
The Head of Risk will be responsible for building and overseeing the risk management framework across market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk. You will develop and maintain the infrastructure, policies, and culture that enable disciplined growth while supporting an entrepreneurial trading environment. You’ll work closely with trading, finance, technology, and compliance teams to ensure all activities are conducted within the firm’s risk appetite, while enabling strategic expansion into new asset classes and products.
Key Responsibilities
- Risk Framework Design: Define and implement the firm’s overall risk management framework, spanning proprietary trading and prime brokerage activities.
- Market & Portfolio Risk Oversight: Establish methodologies for exposure measurement, VaR, scenario analysis, stress testing, and drawdown control across multi-asset portfolios.
- Credit & Counterparty Risk: Oversee margining, collateral, and exposure management across counterparties, clients, and clearing relationships.
- Liquidity & Capital Management: Partner with Finance and Treasury to align capital allocation, internal pricing of risk, and regulatory capital requirements.
- Operational & Model Risk: Identify and mitigate operational risks across trading and technology infrastructure; validate and challenge models and assumptions where relevant. • Governance & Reporting: Lead risk committee processes, define escalation thresholds, and deliver clear, actionable reports to senior management and the board.
- Technology Integration: Collaborate with technology teams to develop or refine risk systems and real-time monitoring tools.
- Team Leadership: Build and manage a small, high-performing risk function, fostering a culture of accountability and proactive risk management.
- Strategic Projects: Assess new product lines, asset classes, and jurisdictions from a risk perspective, ensuring appropriate controls before launch.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experience: 10+ years in risk leadership roles within a multi-strategy hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or global markets / prime brokerage environment.
- Expertise: Strong grasp of market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk, with experience designing frameworks in growth or transformation-stage firms.
- Quantitative Rigor: Comfort with risk modelling, stress testing, VaR, and scenario design; able to challenge and validate models with data-driven reasoning.
- Commercial Acumen: Adept at translating complex risk concepts into business context and engaging with trading and executive stakeholders.
- Regulatory Awareness: Familiar with UK/EU financial regulations and risk governance expectations for trading and brokerage firms.
- Leadership: Proven ability to build, develop, and lead teams while working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of providing clear, concise reporting and influencing at board level.
Preferred:
- Experience in a regulated prime brokerage or prop trading environment.
- Advanced quantitative or financial degree (MSc/PhD/CFA/FRM).
- Familiarity with real-time risk monitoring, automation, or big data applications in trading risk.
- Exposure to multi-asset or global market strategies.
Why This Role
- Join a firm in rapid expansion mode with the opportunity to shape its risk culture from the ground up.
- Direct influence over risk policy, governance, and infrastructure.
- Exposure to a broad set of trading strategies and global markets.
- Senior leadership visibility and collaboration with top-tier trading and executive talent.
- Entrepreneurial environment with strong financial backing and institutional rigor.
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Head of Risk
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Hybrid role – with a requirement for at least 1 day per week in our office in New Malden.
About Homeprotect
We founded Homeprotect on a simple principle – to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry.
We’re experts at insuring people who want to build or buy a unique property, renovate, rent a home or leave it unoccupied. We can cover people who travel a lot, run a business from home or even collect rare treasures. We protect people who love living in a listed building, having a view of a river or sunbathing on a flat roof.
We can do this because our smart tech enables our customers to get an instant, online quote to cover a huge range of complex needs and our UK customer support teams are on hand to provide information and support when only a real person will do.
Our insurance has already empowered hundreds of thousands of people to protect their homes and the things they love. But we’re not content with being the leading provider of what’s called ‘non-standard’ insurance. We believe there’s no such thing as ‘standard’. We’re all unique and we all deserve home insurance designed with our individual needs in mind – something our combination of real people and smart tech enables us to do.
Our simple promise? Whoever you are and wherever you live, with Homeprotect we’ve got you covered.
What It's Like To Work Here
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our people. We’re a small but perfectly formed team, made up of insurance industry specialists alongside a diverse mix of technologists, data scientists and customer and marketing champions from all sorts of industries and backgrounds. We all bring our individual expertise, an appetite for innovation and a shared ambition to empower people to protect their homes and the things that they love.
Working in a fast-paced environment where change happens regularly is how we do things. But we also recognise that you’ll do your best work when you have the right balance, and that’s why we have fully embraced hybrid working, and in some cases, fully remote working, giving our teams the flexibility to choose the right location and working hours for them. We prefer to focus on the outputs of their work, not where they complete it. That said, there will be times when getting together in one location makes sense, but day-to-day, our teams have the freedom to decide where to work and we trust that they’ll make the right decision balancing the business needs and their own preferences.
Most companies think their culture is great, however at Homeprotect, we have the proof to back this up. We have been recognised externally as a Great Place to Work for the last six consecutive years.
Sound good? Read on to find out more about joining our team…
Key Responsibilities
Risk Management Framework
- Design, implement, and maintain Homeprotect’s Risk Management Framework (RMF), ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, risk appetite, and growth strategy.
- Embed risk culture across the firm, driving awareness, accountability, and consistent practices.
- Advise the Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Board, and Audit & Risk Committee on strategic and emerging risk matters.
Risk Assessment and Identification
- Identify, assess, and monitor enterprise-wide risks, including strategic, operational, conduct, financial crime, data, cyber, outsourcing, and insurance risks.
- Lead scenario analysis, emerging risk reviews, and stress testing to evaluate potential impacts on the firm.
- Maintain risk registers, Risk & Control Self Assessments, and key risk indicators to support ongoing oversight.
Risk Mitigation and Control
- Provide independent second-line challenge of business risks and mitigation plans.
- Collaborate with senior leaders and risk owners to strengthen control effectiveness and embed resilience.
- Ensure mitigation strategies are proportionate, actionable, and aligned with risk appetite.
Risk Reporting and Governance
- Deliver clear, timely, and actionable risk reports to the CR&CO, Senior Leadership Team, and Audit & Risk Committee.
- Present risk insights and data in a format that drives informed decision-making.
- Support governance by ensuring risks are escalated, tracked, and addressed within agreed tolerances.
Requirements
We would love to hear from people with the following skills and experience:
Experience
- Extensive expertise and knowledge of direct risk management and leadership experience in RMF and Operational Risk Management areas.
- Thorough understanding of risk assessment best practices, concepts, practices, and tools.
- Exceptional analytical, problem solving and presentation/report writing skills, combined with a good understanding of business dynamics and commercial value drivers.
- Exceptional project delivery approaches to effectively lead risk management initiatives.
- Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills; ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders. Intellectual mobility and inquisitiveness; Comfortable developing answers/solutions when requirements remain unclear or change.
- Experience in effectively championing risk governance across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Previous experience managing a risk program or framework and liaising with regulators.
- Strong knowledge with Governance, Risk and Compliance and other Controls frameworks.
- You will have a deep understanding of the technical discipline of implementing an RMF and a good understanding of the insurance industry and the unique risks that it faces.
Leadership and Management
- Exceptional capability for managing and leading people with the ability to lead, manage and motivate teams.
- Ability to work effectively and lead teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to change.
- Coach, mentor, and train staff, as well as other team members.
Qualifications and Knowledge
- Prior experience in home insurance or personal lines insurance.
- Relevant certification in Risk Management or related field is preferred.
- Exposure to machine learning/AI risk management (if relevant to pricing or claims).
- Experience with FCA or PRA thematic reviews or s166 (Skilled Person) reviews.
Benefits
We think we have a fantastic company culture and welcome new team members with open arms. We also offer a great range of benefits, including:
- A genuinely flexible approach to work. We are really supportive of you flexing your hours and location to help you keep everything in your life in balance.
- Opportunities to focus on your professional growth whether that’s through training or other personal development opportunities - we want you to build your long-term career with us.
- Discount of 50% when you choose to take out a home insurance policy with us.
- An in-house wellbeing programme including seminars and workshops from wellbeing coaches and professionals.
- Home working starter kit and money to spend on additional equipment you may need.
- Charitable giving scheme, so you can donate to our partner charity, or one of your choices.
- The opportunity to work alongside brilliant people, because this isn’t something that every organisation can offer!
On top of that, we also offer all the standard stuff, like:
- 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays) and the ability to buy and sell >5 days annually.
- Private medical cover for all employees
- Financial Advice with Octopus Money
- Life insurance
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Pension contribution
- Free fruit and really good coffee for the days you come into the office.
- Local and national retail discounts
Have we captured your imagination? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Unique As Standard
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds, as long as you meet the knowledge, skills and experience criteria for the role and have the right to work in the UK. We think everyone can excel in the right environment – no matter your gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disabilities or beliefs. We believe in celebrating difference, and everything that makes both our customers and people unique, by creating an environment where everyone can thrive.
We encourage you to let us know if you need any extra help with your application, or if you have any requirements at any stage of the recruitment journey.
Equally, lots of our staff at Homeprotect work flexibly and in a variety of ways, whether that’s different core hours or remote working. Please chat to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need, as we’re always happy to explore what's possible for the role.
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Head of Risk
Posted 21 days ago
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We’re a pan-European digital wealth manager with 130,000 active investors (growing fast!) and over €5 billion invested on our platform. With 220+ people across 4 offices in Italy and the UK, we’re supported and funded by Poste Italiane, Cabot Square Capital, United Ventures and Allianz. We started in 2011 in Milan with a simple vision - to help more people improve their financial well-being by making personal investing straightforward and accessible through technology. Fast forward a few years, and we’re known as one of the most innovative fintechs headquartered in the heart of London.
Mission
To provide investment solutions and advice to protect and grow client wealth through time.
Our Core Values:
We’ve built our business on three Principles:
- Relationships are our first asset: We’re one team, built on trust, honesty and transparency. We value our relationships above all else.
- Trust drives success: We give each other the space to grow. We empower our employees to succeed, so they can make a real impact.
- Our customers dream big, just like us: We see the bigger picture and we make sure our customers see it, too. We’re always focused on the best outcomes for our clients and for each other, no matter what the goal, or how big the dream
What this means in practice:
At Moneyfarm, diversity is the foundation of our competitive advantage. We value our employees for who they are – their backgrounds, experiences, talents, knowledge and individual differences. This is what makes us better at what we do. To accommodate our different needs and commitments, we offer flexible working to all. Our individual impact and output is what counts most.
About the role:
About the role
Reporting directly to the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, the Head of Risk will be responsible for establishing and embedding an enhanced enterprise-wide risk management framework and leading the Moneyfarm risk management strategy across all areas of the business, including financial, operational, regulatory, and technology risks.
The Head of Risk will partner with senior management and work closely with the executive team and Board to understand and quantify business risks, as well as working with Compliance to understand existing and emerging regulatory risks, to ensure robust governance and proactive risk management as we expand our business.
Key Responsibilities
Risk Leadership & Strategy
- Define and implement the company’s enterprisewide risk management framework and policies
- Work with the Board to set risk appetite.
- Act as the primary advisor to senior leadership on all risk-related matters.
- Develop a strong risk culture across the organisation.
Governance & Oversight
- Lead the risk function, including second line of defence oversight of operational, conduct, and financial risks.
- Actively participate in Risk Committees and support the Board Risk Committee.
- Report regularly to the Executive and Board on key risks and emerging issues.
- Lead the risk review for ICARA reporting.
Regulatory & Compliance Risk
- Ensure the firm’s risk management practices comply with FCA, Bank of Italy, CONSOB and other relevant regulatory standards.
- Work closely with Compliance and Legal teams to manage regulatory obligations.
- Prepare for regulatory reviews, audits, and inspections.
Controls Management
- Establish, embed and oversee controls a new controls management framework.
- Work with Control Managers to ensure controls are periodically tested; where possible this should be automated.
Operational & Technology Risk
- Oversee operational risk management, including incident reporting, business continuity, and outsourcing/vendor oversight.
- Monitor technology, data protection, and cyber security risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Understand artificial intelligence risks relevant to digital wealth management and the Moneyfarm business and, where possible, utilise artificial intelligence for risk management activities.
Requirements
- Significant experience in risk management within fintech, digital wealth/asset management, or financial services essential.
- Strong understanding of UK and EU regulatory frameworks (FCA, Bank of Italy, ESMA, MiFID II).
- Proven ability to design, build or lead a risk function in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Experience with operational and technology risk, ideally within a digital-first business model. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence at Board and regulator level.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage time effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with use of tech focused software and project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, etc.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with a “can-do” attitude.
- Able to work independently while contributing effectively as part of a team
- Discretion and an understanding of how to handle sensitive or confidential information appropriately.
Financial Risk Manager
Posted today
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Your new company
Global (Re)insurer (confidential)
Your new role
The role sits within the Risk & Compliance function and reports directly to the CRO, where you'll oversee the effective operation of the company's management of key financial risks relating to capital, liquidity, reserves/technical provisions, investments, pricing, reinsurance etc.
What you'll need to succeed
It's a great fit for someone with ideally 5+ years' work experience, from an actuarial background, who's looking to step into a strategic leadership role with real influence across the business.
Previous knowledge of financial risk management methods and principles is essential, but they are flexible regarding the candidate's background, so they could be from either a non-life or life background.
What you'll get in return
They can offer a competitive base salary of up to c. £85k (DoE) with excellent benefits and bonus.
Flexible working options available.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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