Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) to make and receive payments in a convenient borderless manner.
The Role: Flutterwave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as an Associate, Enterprise Risk Management.
The Associate, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) will support the implementation and continuous improvement of the organization's enterprise risk management framework. The role is responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, and reporting risks across business functions, while partnering with stakeholders to strengthen risk awareness, control effectiveness, and regulatory compliance. The Associate will contribute to risk assessments, issue management, risk reporting, governance activities, and the promotion of a strong risk culture throughout the organization.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Support the execution of enterprise-wide risk assessments and risk profiling exercises.
- Facilitate the identification, evaluation, and documentation of strategic, operational, financial, regulatory, technology, and third-party risks.
- Assist business units in maintaining risk registers and ensuring risks are appropriately assessed and mitigated.
- Monitor emerging risks, industry trends, and regulatory developments that may impact the organization.
- Track key risk indicators (KRIs), risk appetite metrics, and control effectiveness measures.
- Prepare periodic risk reports, dashboards, and management presentations for senior leadership and governance committees.
- Monitor risk treatment plans and escalate overdue or high-risk items as necessary.
- Support the aggregation and analysis of risk data to identify trends and areas requiring management attention.
- Coordinate risk governance activities, including committee meetings, risk reviews, and action tracking.
- Ensure risk documentation is accurate, complete, and maintained in designated systems of record.
- Support issue management activities, including issue identification, risk rating, remediation tracking, validation, and closure.
- Collaborate with business teams to assess root causes and develop effective remediation plans.
- Monitor the status of corrective actions and provide updates to management.
- Support third-party risk assessments and ongoing vendor risk monitoring activities.
- Participate in risk reviews for new products, projects, initiatives, and strategic changes.
- Promote risk awareness and a strong risk culture across the organization.
- Support the development and delivery of risk training and awareness programs.
Required competency and skillset to be a waver:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Risk Management or a related field.
- 2-4 years of experience in risk management project management, or a related field within the fintech or financial services industry
- Good understanding of risk management principles, methodologies, and frameworks, with a proven track record of developing and implementing effective risk management strategies and processes.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to think critically, identify patterns, and draw meaningful insights from complex data sets to support decision-making and risk assessment.
- Proficiency in risk management tools and technologies, including risk analytics software, data visualization tools, and project management platforms.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., FRM, PMP) preferred.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance in the financial industry
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and effectively manage competing priorities while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Risk Management or a related field.
- 2-4 years of experience in risk management project management, or a related field within the fintech or financial services industry.
- Good understanding of risk management principles, methodologies, and frameworks.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to think critically and identify patterns.
- Proficiency in risk management tools and technologies.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., FRM, PMP) preferred.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance in the financial industry.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
What We Do
At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $2 billion in payments and 25 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.
