Head of Risk Management

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Job Description
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, our super app has helped 20 million customers get more from their money. And we're not done yet.
As we continue our lightning-fast growth, we believe that two things are essential to continuing our success: our people and our culture. So far, we have 5000 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 About the team
Our Risk team sits at the very core of Revolut. It works 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, to treasury and finance, to customer support.
If you want to gain priceless experience and exposure in one of the fastest-growing scaleups in Europe, helping to make Revolut safer for our customers, employees and shareholders, then apply to join our Risk department today.

About the role
Risk Management sits at the very core of Revolut. Working with business representatives across all parts of the company we have an exciting opportunity to see the whole picture and help everywhere. This role is responsible for implementation of risk management framework and governance structures; monitoring daily risk exposures and supporting MI reporting to MAS.

What you need to achieve
  • Operational risk framework - Design and implementation of the operational risk management framework and third party risk management framework
  • Risk register approval process - Oversight of risk and control profile and data quality
  • KRI approval process - Oversight of KRI design and data quality
  • New initiative risk assessment - Risk assessment of operational risk for the approval of new initiatives
  • Risk action tracking - Oversight of risk actions from operational risk KRI breaches, risk incidents and risk issues
  • Risk analytics - Thematic analysis and operational risk deep dives
What you'll be doing
  • Providing strategic leadership as a member of our local EXCO, with a whole-of-business perspective, proactive approach to growing our business and a consistently positive and growth oriented mindset;
  • Oversee daily operations of the risk management team, and advise on all risk matters;
  • Work with the first line of defense to identify, assess, document and regularly review risks of all risk types and coach the business to design and implement controls;
  • Assist with developing and implementing risk policies, risk procedures, key risk indicators and risk appetite statement;
  • Monitor risks against limits and thresholds, produce respective reports to management and other relevant stakeholders;
  • Implement the risk incident management process including registration of risk events, managing and delivering risk incident reports for senior management and regulators;
  • Monitor KRI breaches and work with risk owners/group risk team to resolve them within set timeline;
  • Constantly develop and maintain risk tools and systems; and
  • Conduct presentations and workshops in risk identification and mitigation. Work with the first line of defense to identify, assess, document and regularly review risks of all risk types and coach the business to design and implement controls;
  • Assist with developing and implementing risk policies, risk procedures, key risk indicators and risk appetite statement;
  • Monitor risks against limits and thresholds, produce respective reports to management and other relevant stakeholders;
  • Implement the risk incident management process including registration of risk events, managing and delivering risk incident reports for senior management and regulators;
  • Monitor KRI breaches and work with risk owners/group risk team to resolve them within set timeline;
  • Constantly develop and maintain risk tools and systems; and
  • Conduct presentations and workshops in risk identification and mitigation.
What you'll need
  • Degree in business administration, economics, finance, or a related field required.
  • Experience in Operational Risk Management ( good to have Credit Risk Management exp.) or a related role from preferably consumer platform (Banks / NBFIs)
  • Must have proficiency in SQL
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Organizational and communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail
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