Jacobson Garner
Head of Enterprise Risk
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Job Title
A fast-growing, regulated financial services group is seeking a senior, hands-on risk leader to shape and strengthen enterprise and operational risk across the organization.
About the Opportunity
This is an opportunity to take an existing enterprise risk framework and make it more mature, visible, and effective across multiple entities and jurisdictions. You'll have meaningful ownership, direct exposure to senior leadership and the Board, and the freedom to make risk management practical and valuable without the bureaucracy of a large institution.
Key Responsibilities
- Owning and continuing to mature the Group's enterprise risk framework.
- Strengthening operational risk reporting, KRIs, dashboards, and board-level management information.
- Improving risk and control registers, including ownership, supporting evidence, issue tracking, and remediation.
- Developing risk committee materials, governance cadence, and follow-through.
- Providing effective second-line oversight and challenge across the Group.
- Overseeing operational resilience, business continuity, outsourcing, vendor management, and DORA requirements.
- Challenging first-line teams on risk ownership, reporting discipline, and control effectiveness.
- Ensuring material risks are understood and addressed before new products, systems, entities, or banking arrangements are launched.
- Managing and developing one direct report while maintaining a hands-on approach.
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Your remit will span operational and enterprise risk, including technology, systems, processes, outsourcing, third-party relationships, conduct, and operational resilience. You'll help ensure first-line teams remain accountable for identifying, managing, and evidencing their risks and controls.
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Requirements
You'll ideally bring:
- Minimum 7–10 years' experience in enterprise risk, operational risk, second-line risk, risk assurance, or internal audit within regulated financial services.
- Evidence of building, embedding, or significantly improving a risk framework in a growing or changing organization.
- Strong operational risk expertise rather than a purely financial, credit, or liquidity risk background.
- Experience gained in payments, e-money, FX, brokerage, banking, fintech, treasury, or a comparable regulated environment.
- The ability to work effectively across multiple entities, jurisdictions, or regulatory regimes.
- The credibility and judgment to challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
- A practical, commercially aware approach that improves risk management without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Strong analytical capability, ideally supported by a numerate, technical, or framework-led background.
- Experience in FX, payments, treasury, match principal brokerage, or financial markets would be particularly valuable.
- A relevant qualification in risk, audit, accountancy, treasury, or financial services would be helpful but is not essential.
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