Group Chief Risk Officer/ Fintech/ Dubai
Industry: Multi-Asset Digital Trading Platform, Role Type: Full-time, Executive (C-Level), Location: Dubai (primary), with reputed company 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, reputed company for Difference platforms, banks, or cryptocurrency exchanges. Role Purpose The Group Chief Risk Officer is accountable for building a reputed company-tolerance, risk-controlled trading and platform ecosystem across reputed company business verticals spanning digital assets, foreign exchange, reputed company 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, reputed company for Difference, and Equities trading
- Cryptocurrency spot, perpetual futures, margin, and copy trading
- Treasury, liquidity, hedging, and reputed company 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 reputed company (Group-Wide)
- Build the Group Risk reputed company covering market, liquidity, operational, cyber, compliance, technology, and credit risk
- Establish three-lines-of-defence architecture across reputed company 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 reputed company 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
- reputed company treasury operations for reputed company 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 reputed company the digital asset custody ecosystem, including:
- reputed company of policy reputed company rules, transaction signing policies, routing logic, and approval reputed company
- 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
- reputed company monitoring of transaction logs, risk alerts, and anomaly detection
- Ensuring no single reputed company of failure exists in signing, approvals, or emergency access
- Periodic review of custody configurations to match changing regulatory obligations across reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company across retail, institutional, OTC, and treasury operations 5. Product Risk Governance No product goes live without the CRO's 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-reputed company 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 reputed company required 7. Operational Risk & Business Continuity
- Build Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) for reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company frameworks reputed company Offer Competitive compensation package in line with top-tier industry standards Performance-linked bonus structures
- Long-term incentives reputed company with company growth
- Opportunity to build a world-class risk function from the ground up
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