Group Lead - Assets Risk
$14,000–$190,000 year
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Implement and embed the Enterprise Risk Management Framework across the Wise Assets product ecosystem, ensuring alignment with product developments and regulatory requirements. Partner with first-line teams and regional colleagues to strengthen risk frameworks within the product lifecycle, operational processes, and strategic decision-making. Provide independent second-line oversight and challenge on risk assessments, control design, and residual risk decisions while monitoring key risk indicators and operational incidents. Own issue management activities, track remediation plans, and escalate significant exposures to governance committees. Produce high-quality, data-driven risk reporting and insights for senior stakeholders and contribute to enterprise-wide decision-making. Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Audit, and Regional Risk teams to support commercial growth while maintaining robust governance standards.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience within financial services, fintech, banking, wealth management, or investment environments
- Strong track record in first or second line risk management roles
- Demonstrated experience implementing or operating enterprise risk management frameworks within regulated financial services organisations
- Strong understanding of non-financial risk management concepts and methodologies, including operational risk, regulatory risk, conduct risk, financial crime risk and control governance
- Proven ability to provide effective independent challenge and escalation while maintaining strong and constructive stakeholder relationships
- Experience assessing complex products, operational processes, and control environments in fast-paced or scaling organisations
- Strong analytical, data management and reporting skills, including the ability to translate complex risk information into clear, concise and impactful insights for senior management, governance committees and regulators
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across different levels of seniority and functions
- A pragmatic, commercially aware and solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to balance effective risk management against business growth and customer outcomes
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities, deliver to tight timelines and operate effectively in a fast-changing environment
- An inquisitive mindset and strong interpersonal skills, with a desire to deeply understand how products operate and how risks evolve as the business scales
- Experience working in global and cross-functional environments, particularly within technology-driven or high-growth organisations
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working within or supporting investment products, asset management, brokerage, or regulated investment firms
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