About us
Are you excited by FinTech and ready to make a real impact in a fast-moving company where your choices drive change? Altery might be your next big adventure!
We are seeking an experienced Head of Risk to lead Altery’s risk management strategy for both fiat and crypto services, ensuring operational resilience, compliance, and risk mitigation in line with UK and EU regulatory requirements. This key role will oversee Altery’s risk management framework, focusing on multiple domains such as operational risk, cybersecurity, third-party risk, fraud prevention, business continuity, and compliance standards.
The Head of Risk will play a critical role in identifying, assessing, and managing risks across all areas of the business, ensuring that Altery’s operations remain resilient, secure, and aligned with regulatory and operational standards. This position will be instrumental in building a strong risk culture within the organisation, managing risk incidents, and ensuring the effective implementation of processes related to data privacy, regulatory compliance, and change management.
Additionally, the Head of Risk will be responsible for overseeing the organisation’s approach to outsourcing and third-party risk, ensuring that all partnerships comply with regulatory expectations and that risks from external relationships are appropriately managed. This individual will be central to strengthening Altery’s operational risk framework and safeguarding the business from emerging threats while maintaining alignment with UK and EU regulations.
What you'll be doing
1. Risk Management Framework and Strategy: Develop, implement, and oversee Altery's risk management framework, ensuring compliance with UK/EU regulations and alignment with strategic objectives for fiat and crypto services.
2. Operational Resilience and Business Continuity: Design and execute resilience strategies, including Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR), ensuring operations withstand disruptions and meet regulatory standards like DORA.
3. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Risk: Lead cybersecurity risk management, ensuring robust IT security measures and compliance with global data privacy regulations, including GDPR.
4. Third-Party Risk Management: Implement a third-party risk management framework, ensuring due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and compliance in outsourced functions.
5. Fraud and Insider Risk Management: Oversee fraud prevention and detection strategies, manage employee-related risks (e.g., insider threats), and ensure robust whistleblowing procedures.
6. Crisis Management and Incident Response: Lead crisis management protocols, including stress testing, scenario analysis, and live drills to prepare for operational disruptions and risk events.
7. Risk Culture and Training: Foster a proactive risk culture through training and guidance, embedding risk management in daily operations and strategic initiatives.
8. Strategic Risk Assessment and Reporting: Provide comprehensive risk assessments for strategic decisions and present actionable risk reports to senior leadership and the board.
9. Regulatory Compliance and Governance: Ensure alignment of risk practices with evolving regulatory requirements, maintain strong relationships with regulators, and oversee governance structures.
10. Continuous Improvement and Innovation: Drive enhancements in risk management practices, leveraging emerging technologies and lessons from audits to adapt to changing risks and operational needs.
What you’ll bring to us
1. A minimum of 7 years of demonstrated experience in risk management, including overseeing operational, financial, IT, and cybersecurity risks across both fiat and crypto services. Proven track record in identifying, managing, and mitigating a wide range of risks within regulated financial environments, with a strong understanding of FCA and EU regulations.
2. Deep knowledge of operational resilience frameworks, particularly in the context of DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) and business continuity planning. Experience in ensuring that business-critical functions remain operational during disruptions, while managing risks related to IT, cyber threats, and operational incidents.
3. Extensive experience in managing IT and cybersecurity risks, with a solid understanding of emerging threats, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices. Proven ability to assess, develop, and implement effective cybersecurity frameworks to protect both fiat and crypto services from cyberattacks, fraud, and data breaches.
4. Demonstrated ability to manage third-party risks, including vendor due diligence, risk assessments, and ongoing monitoring of third-party compliance with operational and regulatory standards. Experience in designing and implementing third-party risk management frameworks to mitigate risks related to outsourcing relationships.
5. Ability to foster a strong risk management culture across the organisation, ensuring that employees at all levels understand the importance of risk mitigation. Experience in driving organisational change related to risk management practices, particularly in the context of both fiat and crypto operations.
6. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to handle risk incidents, operational disruptions, and crises. Proven experience in managing operational risk incidents and collaborating with senior management and external stakeholders to ensure timely and effective remediation actions.
What we offer
1. Team and our Product: We are team players and we are passionate about our product and understand what we aim to achieve and the impact it will make.
2. Growth Opportunities: You can Influence and shape our story while advancing your career.
3. Flexibility: We always listen to our people and can be flexible with arrangements.
4. Hybrid Working: We don't expect you to be in the office every day.
5. Local Market Perks: Enjoy insurance coverage, local perks, and beautiful offices.
Why to join us
We may not be perfect, but our strength lies in our resilience. Facing challenges with our expertise, positive attitude, and a supportive environment where everyone relies on one another gives us confidence in what we do. We empower our people to make decisions, explore, and experiment — micromanagement isn’t our style. We reward those who take on additional responsibilities and go the extra mile.
We are proud of how diverse and unique we are. We thrive on diverse views, love learning from one another, and believe that our differences fuel our curiosity.
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