Risk Manager
You own the risk management framework, maintain and evolve the second line of defence, design risk methodologies, monitor exposures, and provide the Board and senior management with a clear view of business risks. You translate regulatory requirements into practical controls, policies, and monitoring across digital-asset custody, settlement, and safeguarding of client funds. You quantify exposures and collaborate with compliance, finance, product, engineering, and operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the risk management framework
- Maintain and evolve the second line of defence
- Design risk methodologies
- Monitor exposures
- Provide the Board and senior management with a clear view of business risks
- Translate regulatory requirements into practical controls, policies, and monitoring
- Quantify exposures
- Present risk to Boards, regulators, and non-specialist stakeholders
- Collaborate with compliance, finance, product, engineering, and operations teams
Requirements
- Experience in risk management within a regulated financial institution
- Familiarity with the Cypriot and EU regulatory landscape
- Experience covering crypto or digital-asset activities and e-money or payments activities
- Knowledge of MiCA, PSD2, EMD2, and related national law
- Understanding of operational, credit, liquidity, market, conduct, technology or ICT, and financial-crime risk
- Experience designing and maintaining risk management frameworks, risk appetite statements, capital and liquidity assessments, and risk registers
- Ability to translate regulatory requirements into controls, policies, and monitoring
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to present risk to Boards, regulators, and non-specialist stakeholders
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth, and globally distributed organisations
- Ability to collaborate with compliance, finance, product, engineering, and operations teams