Director, Financial Risk

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🕒 June 4

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KOHO

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Insurance • Fintech

KOHO is a financial technology company that provides Canadians with tools to manage their money effectively and enhance their lifestyle. Offering a single platform, KOHO allows users to spend smarter with a prepaid Mastercard that offers up to 5% cash back, grow their savings with competitive interest rates, facilitate borrowing with easy cash advances, and build credit history. The app also features budgeting tools, payment splitting, and various customizable plans to suit individual needs, emphasizing convenience and financial wellness for its users.

📋 Description

• Manage and mentor a high-performing team of people managers and individual contributors across all Financial Risk domains. • Establish and maintain robust decision governance frameworks for key business decisions with Financial Risk impact. • Provide "effective challenge" on decisions impacting financial risk. • Oversee and recommend the frameworks for assessing and measuring financial risk appetite. • Lead governance for financial risk policies including credit policy, across product portfolios. • Oversee short- and long-term delinquency and loss forecasting. • Collaborate with Finance and Treasury teams in the development and execution of forecasting frameworks for market and liquidity risk. • Drive portfolio risk monitoring, reporting, and insight generation.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in financial risk management, with significant exposure to retail credit risk and/or treasury/financial risk management. • Proven experience managing people managers and leading high-performing analytical teams. • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Engineering) or equivalent practical experience. • Deep understanding of IFRS 9 standards, ECL methodologies, and stress testing frameworks. • Familiarity with market and liquidity risk principles. • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable strategic insights. • Strong ability to communicate complex risk concepts to non-technical stakeholders and senior executive leadership. • A "builder" mindset—you thrive in cross-functional environments and can effectively influence peers in Product, Finance, and Tech.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation & equity • Generous vacation + Wellness days + Flex Days + holiday closure • Remote-first environment + coworking support + yearly all hands retreat • Access to coaching & growth programs • Parental top-up & leave policies • Comprehensive health benefits • Power-up budgets for books, home office setup, phone & internet, AI tools, and professional development