HEAD OF RISK
DIGITAL BANKING
Job Overview
Executive Recruitment Asia is working with one of the world’s leaders within challenger banking, our client is all about getting the job done. Becoming part of the adventure where you’ll need to take ownership, initiative and be a leader from day one. We are looking to speak with candidates that are highly collaborative, hardworking people, who can deconstruct problems and talk to others as they do so, while being inventive.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Risk & AML team and develop and foster talent
- Implement a forward-thinking risk and fraud management strategy for multi-channel gateway, acquiring, accepting and issuing payments businesses.
- Provide and implement a strategy regarding customer registration, verification, due diligence, merchant onboarding, KYC and AML policies and processes.
- Provide best in class risk management services to merchants and partners.
- Ownership and management of AML and card scheme regulations and fraud systems.
- Work in partnership with the Legal Counsel and the Compliance Officer to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Support the Finance team in developing and maintaining risk-based pricing models.
- Assist and Support business lines to enable them to mitigate and control their operational risks
- Work with all relevant auditors including VISA, Mastercard and FSA.
- Develop, implement and review policies, procedures and controls to mitigate the risks of financial loss, penalties or licence revocation from all licensors.
- Raise incidents and alerts to business-critical issues and identify ways to mitigate, control or avoid these risks.
- Decision making regarding key ad hoc customer queries requiring resolution.
- Ensure all departmental objectives, KPI’s and SLAs are met and ideally exceeded.
- Provide effective reporting and escalation to the senior management team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
- 5+ years of managing experience at a financial service, consumer lending or e-commerce payment system company, preferably in digital consumer credit
- Experience with consumer loan products
- Exceptional problem-solving ability, creative conceptual thinking, and keen business judgement
- Experience in gathering and analysing financial data with experience with fraud strategy development.
- Experience in credit risk management, policy, credit analysis or credit approval
- Working knowledge of statistical modelling and analysis including data mining, regression, and decision trees