Head of Business Risk & Controls

You will build and own first-line risk and control frameworks across relevant activities. You will design practical controls, establish monitoring and testing programs, identify weaknesses, drive remediation, and report on control effectiveness. You will develop controls for fiduciary, custody, and other regulated financial services activities, partnering with business leaders and independent control functions to strengthen accountability and first-line ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the first-line risk and control framework, including risk and control assessments, standards, documentation, governance, issue management, and monitoring.
• Embed effective controls into business processes based on regulatory requirements, policies, risks, and supervisory expectations.
• Establish control monitoring and testing programs, identify weaknesses, assess impacts, drive remediation, and report on control effectiveness.
• Develop control frameworks for fiduciary, custody, and other regulated financial services activities.
• Partner with business leaders, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit teams to establish roles, challenge, remediation, and first-line ownership.
• Establish procedures, governance, reporting, systems, and operating cadence that support a scalable control environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in US banking or regulated financial services.
• Significant leadership experience in first-line risk, business controls, operational risk, or a comparable control function.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and improving first-line control frameworks.
• Deep working knowledge of US banking regulation and supervisory expectations.
• Experience supporting fiduciary, trust, custody, transaction services, or closely related banking activities.
• Understanding of the three lines of defence model.
• Experience partnering with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, and senior business stakeholders.

Benefits

• Equity package
• Pay-for-performance equity bonus
• Moonshot award with a $250,000 equity grant for 20 employees annually
• Employer pension contributions from day one
• Employee referral program offering 10K in USDC
• Flexible Time Off
• End-of-year company-wide recharge period
• Birthday leave
• Enhanced parental leave
• Remote or hybrid working options
• Commuter benefits
• Private healthcare benefits
• Wellhub wellness membership
• Access to AI tools including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
• Lunch credit for office days
• Home office setup allowance
• Remote working allowance
• Monthly product budget and zero-fee crypto transactions
• $1,000 annual training budget
• Regular remote company offsites and hackathons
• Ireland Cycle to Work scheme
• UK EV Salary Sacrifice