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People deserve more from their money. Since 2015, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 70+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. We've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely.

About the role

Risk at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] operates across all functions, products, and regions. We’re looking for a Head of Operational Risk to continue improving our risk management framework and governance structures. You'll use data to track daily risk exposures and support reporting to internal and external stakeholders.

What you'll be doing

• Defining operational risk strategy, ensuring it's appropriately responsive to the business strategy and regulatory areas of focus
• Leading the design and implementation of operational risk policies, procedures, key indicators, and appetite statement
• Developing and maintaining risk tools and systems
• Monitoring operational risk against limits and thresholds, producing respective reports to management and other relevant stakeholders
• Leading a team of risk professionals, managing their ongoing performance
• Working with senior management to identify, assess, document, and regularly review our operational risk profile
• Conducting regular assurance activities to ensure the design and operating effectiveness of controls, data quality, policy implementation, etc.
• Developing and implementing techniques for quantification of operational risk and resilience, including stress testing
• Preparing and presenting updates to executive committees
• Engaging with regulators on matters relating to operational risk

What you'll need

• 10+ years of experience in operational risk management within banking or financial services
• An advanced understanding of core operational risk concepts
• Experience leading teams
• Previous examples of practically interpreting and organising complex data
• Knowledge of the regulatory landscape and experience engaging with regulatory bodies
• To be curious and never accepting of assumptions, with a desire to fully understand how things work
• To be organised with a methodological approach

Apply for this role via [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s careers page.