Director of Financial Risk
Tide is a UK-founded fintech business financial platform providing banking and financial-management services to small businesses and sole traders.
About Tide
Tide Platform Limited operates Tide, offering business accounts, payments, accounting and tax tools, savings, payroll, and business finance. Tide is FCA-authorised for electronic-money and payment services and is not itself a bank; its business bank accounts are provided through partner banks including ClearBank.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead global second-line financial risk oversight and evolve the financial risk management framework. You will oversee treasury and liquidity activities, monitor financial resilience, set risk metrics and escalation protocols, support regulatory engagements, assess new products and market launches, report to committees and boards, and lead the financial risk team.
Requirements
- Experience leading financial risk in a regulated financial services environment
- Experience in a second-line-of-defense leadership role
- Knowledge of financial risk frameworks for payment institutions, e-money institutions, or digital banking
- Expertise in treasury, liquidity, solvability, capital, solvency, statutory reporting, and tax risk
- Accounting expertise
- Experience across multiple regulatory jurisdictions
- Experience engaging regulators and auditors
- Senior stakeholder influence
- Experience building and developing high-performing teams
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the Financial Risk Management Framework
- Provide independent oversight and challenge of financial-risk activities
- Align financial risk governance across regulated entities and jurisdictions
- Maintain risk appetite metrics, limits, triggers, and escalation protocols
- Report financial risks to committees and boards
- Monitor capital adequacy, liquidity, concentration risks, and financial resilience
- Support regulatory engagements, audits, thematic reviews, and licence applications
- Oversee treasury and liquidity management activities
- Review liquidity forecasting methodologies and stress assumptions
- Maintain and develop risk policies and frameworks
- Lead financial risk assessments for products, partnerships, and market launches
- Lead the global financial risk team
Benefits
- Share options
- Annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Paid and unpaid sabbatical leave options
- Salary-sacrifice benefits including nursery and cycle-to-work discounts
- Private family health insurance
- Life and accident cover
- Therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops
- Pension scheme
- Paid volunteering and development days
- Annual learning and development budget
- Work abroad for up to 90 days annually
- Home office setup contribution
- Laptop ownership program
- Daily breakfast, coffee, tea, and juices
