The Role
The Financial Risk Manager will identify and manage financial risks, develop processes, and implement strategies to mitigate risks while ensuring business resilience, working collaboratively across teams.
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Our mission? Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business-class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.
Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 500,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!
Our values:
Customer focus | Prioritize customers in everything you do
Ownership | Own your part, get things done
Teamwork | Make (team)work easy
Mastery | Continuously raise the bar
Integrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people
Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 50% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.
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As a Financial Risk Manager at Qonto, you will be responsible for identifying and managing financial risks across the organization, developing robust processes and implementing strategic actions to mitigate these risks while ensuring business resilience. You will work closely with Clément Chaperon in an autonomous team where you'll play a key role in steering Qonto's financial risk management approach.
👩💻🧑💻 As a Financial Risk Manager at Qonto, you will:
• Balance Sheet Analysis: Comprehensively understand Qonto's balance sheet, including investment details, financial counterparties, and revenue generation
• Financial Indicators: Compute and analyze critical financial indicators like liquidity and interest rate metrics for the company
• Data Solutions: Design complex data automation solutions and implement advanced risk metrics and controls
• Financial Modeling: Create sophisticated financial models and lead model integration projects
• Strategic Development: Propose new strategies for balance sheet management, incorporating ESG considerations
• Product Risk Governance: Act as a key risk advisor for new product features and initiatives, conducting thorough risk reviews to ensure potential risks are identified and appropriate safeguards are designed. You'll also maintain and develop essential risk policies as part of the Enterprise Risk Framework
🤔 What you can expect:
• Risk Management Framework: You'll serve as the second line of defense, working closely with the ALM department to provide risk oversight while collaboratively developing comprehensive ALM strategies that balance risk and opportunity
• Autonomy and Responsibility: You'll have a high degree of autonomy in a team of three people, being the sole person managing financial risk at Qonto
• Cross-functional Collaboration: You’ll serve as a key financial risk expert across the organization, collaborating closely with Finance, Treasury, and Business teams to ensure risk considerations are integrated into strategic decision-making while fostering a collaborative risk culture
• Strategic Innovation Leadership: You'll lead the development of innovative balance sheet management strategies, with the autonomy to propose and implement new approaches that optimize financial performance while maintaining risk parameters and advancing our ESG commitments.
🤝 About your future manager:
Your manager will be Clément Chaperon, who is leading the financial and credit risks department.
• His path? With a Master's in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics, Clément built his expertise at Bpifrance over 6+ years before joining Qonto in 2022. His background includes progressive advancement from Risk Intern to Head of Financial and Country Risks Management.
• What he can bring to the team? Clément brings specialized knowledge in derivatives, treasury management, and forex. His expertise in liquidity and interest rate risks management, investment strategy, and risk modeling will support you as you contribute to Qonto's risk management framework. Multilingual and analytically minded, he combines technical financial acumen with a global perspective.
🏅 About You:
• Experience: You have extensive experience in financial risk management, with a strong background in financial product valuation and risk management
• Technical Proficiency: You have mastery of Excel, SQL, and Python for financial and risk modeling applications, with FRM considered a plus
• Analytical mind: You have strong analytical skills and a critical mind, and you are able to present the findings of your work to any type of audience
• Strategic Thinking: You can propose innovative approaches to balance sheet management and incorporate emerging considerations like ESG aspects
• Languages: Native-level English is required, with Native-level French language skills considered a significant advantage for this role
At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn't just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick! Who knows? You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for all along.
🎁 Perks
A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.
- Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
- Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live;
- Competitive salary package;
- A meal voucher;
- Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);
- A great health insurance (depending on the country);
- Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities;
- A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;
- Monthly team events.
💬 Our hiring process:
- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
- A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like
Find more information about our interview process on our careers website.
On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞
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Top Skills
Excel
Python
SQL
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The Company
What We Do
Qonto is the leading European business finance solution. It simplifies everything from everyday banking and financing, to bookkeeping and spend management. Qonto energizes SMEs and freelancers so that they can achieve more. A few figures about Qonto: - Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi launched Qonto in July 2017 - Qonto’s international team is growing fast and we are actively hiring! - Hundreds of thousands of customers in Europe are already using Qonto - €622m raised with VCs and business angels including Valar, Alven, the European Investment Bank, Tencent, DST Global, Tiger Global, TCV, Alkeon, Eurazeo, KKR, Insight Partners, Exor Seeds and Gaingels. Legal Notice: 🇪🇺 https://legal.qonto.com/en 🇫🇷 https://legal.qonto.com/fr 🇩🇪 https://qonto.com/de/imprint 🇪🇸 https://legal.qonto.com/es 🇮🇹 https://legal.qonto.com/it
