Group Chief Risk Officer, Fintech

Chief Risk Officer

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

• 15-20+ years of senior executive experience in enterprise risk management for multi-asset trading platform
• Direct leadership building risk engines, frameworks, and global teams across FX, CFDs, equities, cryptocurrency spot, perpetual futures, and copy-trading environment
• Proven track record operating at board and regulatory level across multiple jurisdiction
• Deep technical competence in quantitative risk, real-time surveillance systems, and digital asset custody framework
• Experience managing institutional, HNWI, and retail trading flows simultaneously

Do Not Apply

• Only worked in single-asset or single-jurisdiction environment
• Risk experience limited to traditional banking without trading platform exposure
• Lack senior leadership in risk functions at global trading platforms, foreign exchange brokers, Contracts for Difference platforms, banks, or cryptocurrency exchanges

Role Purpose

• Build 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, high-net-worth and retail client flows, foreign exchange, CFDs, equities, cryptocurrency spot, perpetual futures, margin, copy-trading, Treasury, liquidity, hedging, bridge flows, market making counterparties and internal inventory across multi-regulator environments (Dubai VARA, Mauritius FSC, Poland VASP, FIU India, Cyprus, etc).

Key Responsibilities

• Build the Group Risk Framework covering market, liquidity, operational, cyber, compliance, technology, and credit.
• Establish a 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 for foreign exchange, CFDs, equities, cryptocurrency spot, perpetual futures, margin lending, leverage, price manipulation, wash trading, abusive order flow, insider activity.
• Create risk halts, kill switches, automatic deleveraging rules, and liquidation parameters.
• Design liquidity, Treasury & Counterparty risk controls, oversee treasury operations, set counterparty onboarding criteria, define liquidity stress rules, intraday funding controls, net of risk governance, and MVP.
• Own digital asset custody risk governance, oversee policy engine rules, transaction signing policies, routing logic, approval thresholds, MPC-based workflow controls, segregation of wallets, continuous monitoring of transaction logs, risk alerts, anomaly detection, emergency protocols, regular audit for owner.
• Ensure global alignment with regulatory jurisdictions, maintain documentation, audit trails, incident reporting, risk capital assessment, engage with regulators, build Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans, develop incident response playbooks, vendor risk management, infrastructure risk scoring, data protection.
• Lead and maintain a 24/7 global risk team covering market risk, liquidity & Treasury, operational, regulatory & compliance, technology, cyber, monitoring, analysis, modeling, and validation with remote hubs in Dubai, India, Europe.

Candidate Profile

• 15-20 years of senior leadership in risk functions at global trading platforms, FX brokers, CFD platforms, banks, or cryptocurrency exchanges.
• Experience with complex multi jurisdiction regulatory frameworks.
• Deep understanding of market making, liquidity provider integration, and institutional flows.
• Proven record of preventing losses, managing exposure, and implementing real time risk models.
• Quantitative risk competence (models, stress tests, margining).
• Strong understanding of technology, matching engines, bridges, pricing feeds.
• Knowledge of blockchain, wallets, custody, transaction risk.
• Experience with MPC (Multi Party Computation) and digital asset security framework.

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 digital trading platform.