Group Chief Risk Officer Fintech

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

• No product goes live without the CROs sign-off.
• This includes:
• Perpetual futures parameters
• Margin tiers
• Copy-trading frameworks
• New tokens and new CFD assets
• Staking, earn, or structured products
• High-frequency or high-leverage products

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

• Build a global risk function including:
• Market Risk
• Liquidity & Treasury Risk
• Operational Risk
• Regulatory & Compliance Risk
• Technology & Cyber Risk
• Model Validation
• Surveillance & Monitoring
• This team must function 24/7 across Dubai, India, Europe, and remote hubs.

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