Risk Manager

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Hiring Remotely in Ireland, IRL
Remote
Senior level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Role
The Risk Manager supports the CRO in operating the company’s risk management framework, including risk policies, outsourcing oversight, safeguarding, financial crime, risk appetite, control frameworks, reporting, and regulatory engagement. The role independently challenges business decisions, assesses outsourcing arrangements, monitors control failures and remediation, supports PSD2 own-funds calculations, and may deputize for the CRO. It requires regulated financial services risk experience, expertise in PSD2 and EMD2, RCSA, risk appetite, incident management, and board-level communication.
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Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth

We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love. Fostering a culture of excellence and high velocity is the key to our success. Тoday, we serve over 6 million clients, with more than €50 billion in assets under management - a testament to the scale and trust we’ve built in just a few years.

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Risk Manager to support the Chief Risk Officer in the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of the Company's Risk Management Framework. As a senior member of the Second Line of Defence, the Risk Manager will play a key role in ensuring that risks are identified, assessed, managed, monitored, and reported in line with the Company's risk appetite, strategic objectives, and regulatory obligations. The role also serves as deputy to the CRO when required, providing leadership and oversight across the risk management function.

T212 is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland as a Payment Institution, and the successful candidate will help ensure the Company maintains a robust and effective risk management framework that supports sustainable growth and regulatory compliance.

What you'll do
  • Support the CRO in developing and maintaining the Risk Management Framework for the effective management of all risks across T212 MIE, including the Company’s safeguarding arrangements, outsourcing, and financial crime.

  • Own day-to-day maintenance of underlying risk policies, ensuring annual review cycles are met.

  • Design, own, and maintain the Outsourcing policy and related risk assessment methodology, ensuring the Outsourcing RMF aligns with regulatory requirements.

  • Overseeing and testing outsourcing arrangements’ effectiveness and the ongoing monitoring as performed by the T212 MIE’s relevant functional owner(s).

  • Independently assess whether a proposed arrangement is "critical or important"; challenge concentration risk; sub-outsourcing chains; and exit strategy adequacy.

  • Prepare risk appetite recommendations and risk position reporting to the Executive Committee relevant Risk committees; and other stakeholders.

  • Support the calculation of T212 MIE's own funds requirement under Article 9 of PSD2.

  • Ensure adequate and appropriate key risk control frameworks are in place for each Key Risk.

  • Support the CRO in the Company's interaction with the CBI and other regulators.

  • Ensure significant control failures or limit breaches are escalated to the appropriate person(s) without delay and track remediation of issues identified in risk-related reviews.

  • Provide independent challenge to business divisions and functions on strategy and risk-taking activity, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and managed within approved risk appetite.

  • Independently review and challenge proposals made by business areas, supporting the CRO's oversight role.

What you need to have
  • Risk management experience within a regulated financial services firm, ideally a payment institution, e-money institution, or bank.

  • Strong working knowledge of the Three Lines of Defence model and second-line risk oversight.

  • Practical experience with Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) methodology; risk appetite frameworks; and incident management frameworks.

  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to independently challenge business leaders.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to Board-level and committee audiences.

  • Direct experience with PSD2 and EMD2 regulatory requirements, including own funds calculation methodologies (Method A, B, C, and/or D).

  • Experience with safeguarding arrangements for client funds in a payment institution context.

  • Experience deputising for or supporting a CRO in a regulated entity.

  • Relevant professional qualification, risk management, internal audit, accountancy, legal, or compliance-related certification).

What we offer
  • Challenges that will help you grow and realize your potential fast.

  • Opportunity to make a significant impact - you will build innovative services used by millions of investors to build wealth.

  • Work with smart, spirited, helpful, high-performing colleagues with a common goal.

  • An environment where nothing is set in stone.

  • Appreciation for your talent and ideas.

  • Generous remuneration package

Bring your ambition to Europe’s fastest-growing mobile broker!

Skills Required

  • Risk management experience within a regulated financial services firm, ideally a payment institution, e-money institution, or bank
  • Strong working knowledge of the Three Lines of Defence model and second-line risk oversight
  • Practical experience with Risk and Control Self-Assessment methodology, risk appetite frameworks, and incident management frameworks
  • Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to independently challenge business leaders
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to Board-level and committee audiences
  • Direct experience with PSD2 and EMD2 regulatory requirements, including own funds calculation methodologies
  • Experience with safeguarding arrangements for client funds in a payment institution context
  • Experience deputising for or supporting a CRO in a regulated entity
  • Relevant professional qualification or certification in risk management, internal audit, accountancy, legal, or compliance
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The Company
HQ: London
559 Employees
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth. We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love. Trading 212 is built with passion by highly driven people who strive for excellence and value freedom. Over the past few years, our client base has grown 20 times to over 2 million, and client assets have grown over 50 times to over €3 billion. Trading 212 was founded in 2003 with one simple idea - to make the financial markets accessible to everyone. From day one, we've been focused on building a great user experience through advanced technology. From the first truly dynamic web apps, to the mobile revolution, we've been at the forefront of every technological wave with the sole purpose of democratising the financial markets. Software engineering and product design are at the heart of what we do. Trading 212 is licensed and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (No. 398/21). When investing, your capital is at risk.

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