Head of Risk

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

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🎲 Risk

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OnHires

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

OnHires is a global IT recruitment and staffing partner that sources, vets, and places technical and creative talent for fast-growing companies. They provide services including vetted developers, sourcing, executive search, talent mapping, RPO, HR consulting, and flexible hiring models (subscription, pay-per-hire, hourly), with a focus on fast, high-quality hires and scalable talent pipelines.

📋 Description

• Own the enterprise risk framework, including risk taxonomy, risk appetite and tolerances, risk register, escalation policy, and three-lines-of-defence model • Produce regular risk dashboards for the CEO and leadership, board/committee reporting, and risk-related regulatory reporting • Lead DORA ICT risk management, incident classification and reporting, third-party ICT risk, and the Register of Information • Build operational risk, capital adequacy, liquidity, and safeguarding frameworks for new e-money authorisations • Own B2B partner and counterparty risk, including onboarding risk scoring, risk-tiered monitoring, material partnership sign-off, and concentration risk • Manage financial and market risk jointly with Finance, including crypto price exposure, settlement and liquidity risk, counterparty exposure, and capital adequacy monitoring • Lead operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, vendor risk, and major incident reporting • Define fraud risk appetite and acceptable loss rates across channels, products, and geographies • Lead product risk assessment and launch gating for new products and markets • Run the risk committee and build risk ownership across business units • Serve as Head of Risk on the leadership team, reporting directly to the CEO

🎯 Requirements

• 8–10+ years in financial services or fintech risk • At least 3–4 years at a senior risk leadership level (Head of Risk, VP Risk, or equivalent) • Direct experience in a regulated fintech, payment institution, EMI, PSP, or crypto business • Hands-on experience with at least one of DORA ICT risk, MiCA (CASP) risk requirements, PSD2 payment institution operational and security risk, or equivalent UK FCA operational resilience experience • Track record of owning risk outcomes • Ability to provide clear risk positions and recommendations under incomplete information • Ability to communicate risk in business language, including impact, cost, and options • Fluent professional English

🏖️ Benefits

• A seat on the leadership team and direct access to the founders • Real ownership: you shape the risk function and its role in the business • Remote-first setup, with periodic in-person time at the European HQ • Long-term B2B contract • Performance- and OKR-linked bonus • 20 paid working days off per year • Paid sick leave • Health insurance • Professional development budget • Team events