Group Chief Risk Officer, Fintech

15-20 Years

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Job Description

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

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

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