# Financial Risk, Financial Controls, & Safeguarding Manager

**Company**: Thunes
**Location**: Paris, Paris
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As the Financial Risk, Financial Controls, and Safeguarding Manager, you will serve as a critical lead in Thunes' Second Line of Defense (2LoD). Reporting directly to the Global Head of Risk / CRO, you will design, implement, and oversee the global governance framework for financial risk, capital management, internal financial controls, and regulatory safeguarding.

Key Responsibilities:

- Establish, maintain, and enhance the global financial risk management framework, policies, and risk appetite statements spanning liquidity, FX risk, market risk, credit/counterparty risk, and capital adequacy.

- Provide rigorous 2LoD oversight of Thunes’ safeguarding obligations across major regulatory jurisdictions.

- Evaluate, challenge, and strengthen internal financial controls and risk management processes managed by the First Line (Finance and Treasury).

- Review and provide independent challenge on Group Treasury activities.

- Monitor evolving regulatory landscapes regarding safeguarding, operational resilience, and capital management across the UK, EU, APAC, EMEA, and Americas.

- Draft, compile, and present comprehensive financial risk and safeguarding dashboards for the Risk Committee, Board, and executive leadership.

- Investigate financial risk incidents and/or safeguarding issues, driving root cause analysis and monitoring the implementation of robust remediation plans.

Experience & Qualifications:

- 10+ years of dedicated experience in Financial Risk, Treasury Risk, Financial Controls, or Risk Management within the Fintech, Cross-Border Payments, or Neobanking industries.

- Deep understanding of global regulatory safeguarding rules.

- Proven experience operating effectively within a Second Line of Defense (2LoD) framework.

- Solid technical knowledge of treasury operations, FX risk, cash management, liquidity modeling, bank reconciliations, and capital adequacy metrics.

- International/global perspective with direct experience working across multi-jurisdictional and regulated payment ecosystems.

- Professional qualification (e.g., FRM, PRM, CFA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent corporate treasury/risk management credential) is highly desirable.

- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

## Skills

### Required
- Financial Risk Management
- Treasury Risk
- Financial Controls
- Risk Management
- Regulatory Safeguarding
- Liquidity Modeling
- FX Risk
- Cash Management
- Bank Reconciliations
- Capital Adequacy Metrics

### Nice to have
- Spanish
- French

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