Risk Manager, UK

Your Mission:

Join our team as an Operational Risk Manager, specialising in providing non-financial risk oversight to our growing UK business. You will support the Group Risk Management team primarily identifying, assessing, monitoring, and treating Non-Financial Risks across all aspects of the UK business. You will be responsible for building and maintaining a culture of risk management excellence, upholding the use and adoption of Bitpanda’s Enterprise Risk Management framework, while promoting innovative ways to keep customers and company financial assets safe.

You have a strong analytical mindset with strong experience in operational risk management, a passion for digital assets and related lifecycle processes and a strong desire to play a part in building out the foundations for the future of finance! Through your engagement and oversight over all core business processes and activities across the UK, you will challenge management to think differently about risk, becoming a key advisor to our business, products, technology and operations teams.

You will report to the Head of Operational Risk, becoming a key part of Bitpanda’s growing Group Risk Management Team.

What you’ll do:

• Champion the use and adoption of the Non Financial Risk Framework across the company. In this capacity, you will be supporting and challenging key stakeholders in the first and second line on all aspects of non financial risk including defining the risk appetite, ensuring strong risk assessments and internal control framework are maintained, tracking Management Actions, ensuring Monitoring and Assurance activities on the business’s risks and controls, and producing regular reporting to senior management.
• Be an active risk advocate and influencer overseeing and advising business and support function stakeholders across 1LOD and 2LOD from a non financial risk management as well as from a financial and liquidity risk perspective. Provide advice as and risk oversight in strategic business transformations and key project activities affecting the UK business offering at Bitpanda.
• Advise risk owners on assessment and risk treatment of identified risks. Provide data-driven analysis of risk topics, empowering quantitative and qualitative insights to enable risk-based decision-making.
• Act as the single point of contact for all aspects of risk management across the UK and act as subject matter expert for risk management advice and oversight over control functions such as Compliance and Anti Financial Crime across the wider Bitpanda group.
• Perform all required Risk Manager activities pertaining to the regulatory supervision of all relevant licences at Bitpanda, engaging regularly with senior management and key stakeholders to provide regular insights and reporting on the identification, assessment, monitoring and managing of risks, ensuring that appropriate risk management practices are consistently applied and updated.

Who you are:

• A minimum of 5 years Operational / Non-Financial Risk management background in financial services and ideally with experience in fast paced companies operating in the Fintech and Digital Asset space.
• An expert in financial services (ideally with hands-on experience in Digital Assets) with a solid understanding of business and product lifecycles including licensing and product creation, client onboarding, payments and trade execution and settlement, from a technical and operational perspective, while also demonstrating a solid grasp of financial market dynamics and the evolving regulatory landscape.
• A self-starter, agile and independent thinker able to operate in a fast-changing environment. Results oriented, seeking to constantly make an impact and consistently contribute ideas and best practices.
• Someone who demonstrates ownership and takes pride in bringing risk-management topics to life, embedding risk management practices that are high output, low friction.
• Passionate about digital assets and playing a role in building a digital asset safely and securely to its customers!