# Senior Director, Enterprise Risk Management

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As Senior Director, Enterprise Risk Management, you will shape and scale Airwallex's enterprise risk management capability across the US and EMEA.

The Global Risk team at Airwallex plays a critical role in enabling the company's growth by building a strong, scalable, and globally consistent approach to risk management.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the evolution of Airwallex's enterprise risk architecture, including risk appetite, taxonomy, governance standards, escalation protocols, and enterprise-wide oversight.

- Translate complex risk data, issues, and trends into clear, decision-useful reporting for the C-suite, Board committees, and external stakeholders.

- Oversee risk-informed change governance for new products, new markets, major systems changes, and structural changes.

- Own and continue to strengthen the enterprise crisis management framework.

- Drive a unified, risk-aware culture across the organisation.

- Build and lead a high-performing global second line team.

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Law, STEM, or another relevant quantitative field.

- 10 to 15+ years of experience in risk management, operational risk, enterprise risk, compliance, controls, or audit within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or another highly regulated environment.

- At least 5+ years leading enterprise risk management, operational risk, or governance programmes in a complex, matrixed, multi-jurisdiction organisation.

Preferred qualifications:

- Advanced degree such as an MBA, Master's in Risk Management, or JD.

- Professional certification such as FRM, PRM, CRMA, CAMS, or CFE.

- Deep fintech and payments experience.

## Skills

### Required
- risk management
- enterprise risk
- compliance
- controls
- audit
- financial services
- fintech
- payments
- banking
- governance

### Nice to have
- MBA
- Master's in Risk Management
- JD
- FRM
- PRM
- CRMA
- CAMS
- CFE

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