Chief Risk Officer
Confirmo is a stablecoin payment platform that lets businesses accept, settle, and disburse stablecoins and cryptocurrencies globally.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Confirmo
Confirmo serves businesses that need to send and receive cross-border payments using stablecoins and cryptocurrencies. Users can accept payments through a checkout gateway, manage incoming deposits at scale, and send bulk or programmatic payouts to wallets worldwide. The platform operates across multiple legal jurisdictions and supports various assets.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and implement the UAE entity’s enterprise risk management framework from the ground up. You will identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate operational, financial, credit, liquidity, technology, cyber, and regulatory risks. You will establish risk governance forums, maintain risk registers, conduct stress testing, manage business continuity and incident frameworks, advise senior leadership, and build a local risk team.
Requirements
- Significant senior risk management experience in virtual assets, crypto, payments, or financial services, ideally in the UAE.
- Experience building enterprise risk management frameworks from the ground up in a new or rapidly scaling entity.
- Deep knowledge of operational, technology and cyber, financial, and regulatory risks in virtual asset and payment businesses.
- Familiarity with UAE regulatory expectations, including VARA and/or CBUAE, and international standards and frameworks.
- Ability to operate as a hands-on founding team member with significant autonomy and ownership.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence engaging with the CEO, Board, and group governance committees.
- Candidates must already be based in Dubai.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and implement the UAE entity’s enterprise risk management framework.
- Identify, assess, and monitor operational, financial, credit, liquidity, technology, cyber, and regulatory risks.
- Establish and chair risk governance forums.
- Provide regular risk reporting and escalation to the CEO, Board, and group governance committees.
- Align risk and regulatory obligations with the Chief Compliance and MLRO Officer and Group Compliance.
- Develop and maintain a risk register.
- Conduct periodic risk assessments and scenario and stress testing.
- Own business continuity, operational resilience, and incident management frameworks.
- Advise senior leadership on emerging risks, mitigation strategies, and risks associated with new products, partnerships, and markets.
- Align the UAE risk framework with group-wide standards and best practices.
- Build and lead a local risk team.
