Director, Enterprise Risk Management - Europe & Middle East
Job Description
[Up to c. €225k Base Salary + Discretionary Bonus | Hybrid Working - 2/3 Days In Office]
Role Overview
We’re representing a global electronic trading and financial technology organisation operating across highly regulated institutional markets. Its risk function supports a business where technology, operational resilience, regulation and market infrastructure are closely interconnected.
The organisation is appointing a Director to provide senior Enterprise Risk Management coverage across Europe and the Middle East. The position must be based in Amsterdam for regulatory reasons, but the mandate is considerably broader than the local office. Reporting into the US-based ERM leadership team, this individual will operate as an independent regional thought partner, building relationships across the business and helping align regional risk oversight with the global programme. This is not a task-driven governance position. The successful candidate will need broad risk judgement, the maturity to challenge senior executives and boards, and enough practical experience to move between compliance, operational, technology and emerging risks without adding unnecessary complexity...
Role Snapshot
- Take senior second-line ownership of Enterprise Risk Management across Europe and the Middle East, with Amsterdam serving as the required regulatory base for the position
- Bring 13+ years of broad enterprise, operational or related risk experience, with evidence of operating credibly with boards, senior risk committees and executive stakeholders
- Combine strong operational-risk fundamentals with meaningful compliance and regulatory-risk experience, rather than specialising narrowly in a single risk discipline
- Operate as an independent thought partner to global ERM leadership - learning the business, identifying priorities and building the stakeholder relationships needed to drive effective regional oversight
- Provide credible challenge across RCSAs, controls, issue management, risk appetite, operational resilience, outsourcing and other significant enterprise risks
- Bring meaningful experience from fintech or another agile, technology-led financial-services environment, with the pragmatism to operate without large-bank bureaucracy or unnecessary process
- Engage effectively with Dutch and European regulators and demonstrate the seniority, breadth and judgement expected of a locally designated risk policymaker
- Work across technology, cyber, compliance and wider business risks, complementing rather than duplicating specialist expertise already present within the global ERM team
- Balance strategic judgement with practical execution - strong communication is important, but candidates must also have personally implemented and operated risk programmes rather than advising from a distance
- (Preferred) Bring digital-asset or crypto exposure, particularly experience covering compliance, regulatory or operational risks associated with crypto businesses
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