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About the Role
We are seeking a Risk Manager to join our Risk & Control team, acting as deputy to the Head of Risk and Control. This role involves building and managing our enterprise risk management framework, including risk appetite linkage and senior leadership reporting. You will also own the second line of defence oversight for security, technology, and operational resilience risk, providing challenge to technology and security teams. This is a unique opportunity in a growing FinTech company to combine broad enterprise risk responsibilities with a technology risk specialization.
Responsibilities
- Act as deputy to the Head of Risk and Control on the enterprise risk management framework, including risk appetite, risk and control linkage, and reporting to senior management and governance committees.
- Lead second line of defence oversight of information security, technology, and operational resilience risk, establishing methodology and standards, and challenging the First Line on identified gaps.
- Run IT general controls (ITGC) testing with technology and security teams to assess control design and effectiveness.
- Partner with the Assurance & Controls Manager to lead incident-driven testing in high-risk areas and translate findings into actionable steps.
- Lead risk assessments and risk and control self-assessments (RCSAs) across the business.
- Pilot GRC tools and contribute to decisions on structuring and automating risk management processes.
- Advise First Line teams on risk, regulatory change, and the control environment, and support engagement with regulators.
- Take ownership of key ERM framework deliverables, including risk appetite linkage and committee reporting.
- Set the technology and operational resilience risk methodology and complete a full cycle of ITGC testing.
- Run a GRC tooling pilot through to a clear recommendation on how to manage risk at scale.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience running an ERM or operational risk framework in a regulated financial services business (FinTech, banking, payments, or similar), including risk appetite, risk reporting, and RCSAs.
- Hands-on experience applying security, technology, and operational resilience risk methodology and standards, with sufficient depth to credibly challenge technology and security teams.
- A track record of ITGC testing or similar control testing and assurance work.
- Confidence engaging stakeholders on complex or sensitive risk topics, challenging constructively, and being heard.
- Ability to translate risk concepts into practical language for diverse audiences, from engineers to senior leadership.
- A pragmatic mindset focused on finding workable solutions to real risk challenges.
- First Line experience, for example in an IT, security, or GRC team before moving into second line risk (nice to have).
- Experience with GRC tooling, including selecting or rolling out a platform (nice to have).
- Exposure to data risk or AI risk (nice to have).
- Experience at both a FinTech and a traditional bank or payments business (nice to have).
Skills
- Enterprise risk management
- Operational risk management
- Risk appetite
- Risk reporting
- RCSAs
- Security risk
- Technology risk
- Operational resilience risk
- ITGC testing
- Control testing
- Assurance
- Stakeholder engagement
- Risk communication
- GRC tooling
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Benefits
- Pleo card (no out-of-pocket spending)
- Catered meals or lunch allowance
- Comprehensive private healthcare
- 25+ days of holiday + public holidays
- Hybrid and fully remote working options
- Access to free mental health and well-being support via MyndUp
- Paid parental leave
About the Company
- Pleo provides spend solutions designed to make managing money seamless, empowering, and effective for finance teams and employees.
- The company's vision is to help all businesses ‘go beyond’.
- Pleo has been successful for the past 10 years, living by the mantra 'more than you’d expect'.
- Pleo is at a pivotal moment, impacting over 40,000 customers.
- Pleo is comprised of over 850 people from more than 100 nationalities.
- Pleo is committed to delivering the future of business spending together.
Equal Opportunity
- Pleo encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.
- Pleo aims for a team that reflects the world around us.
- Pleo ensures a fair application process by having the talent team review every application.
- Pleo accommodates accessibility requirements or specific formats for interviews by emailing belonging@pleo.io.
- Pleo processes personal data as a data processor and provides information in its Privacy Policy.