Outsourcing and Third Party Risk Manager
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
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About the Role
You will oversee outsourcing and third-party risk management, coordinate governance and risk assessments, monitor provider performance, support regulatory submissions and board reporting, assess new engagements, mitigate supplier risks, improve workflows, and connect regulatory strategy with operational execution.
Requirements
- Experience with technology governance, regulatory compliance, or operational resilience controls
- Understanding of EU regulatory frameworks including EMRs, MiCAR, MiFID II, PSD2, AMLD5/6, and DORA
- Experience in outsourcing oversight, vendor performance, and regulatory submissions
- Problem-solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Executive communication skills
- Commercial judgment
- Consulting mindset
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Knowledge of crypto and regulated environments
Responsibilities
- Oversee monitoring and reviews of outsourcing arrangements
- Measure outsourced provider performance against SLAs and KPIs
- Prepare assessment reports and trend analysis
- Support regulatory submissions and supervisor communications
- Prepare board and committee materials
- Maintain outsourcing policies and procedures
- Coordinate with Compliance, Operational Risk, and audit
- Provide outsourcing guidance and training
- Assess proposed engagements
- Participate in due diligence and provider assessments
- Identify and mitigate supplier risks
- Monitor vendor performance against SLAs and MSAs
- Improve processes and workflows
- Deploy generative AI tools
- Lead cross-functional working groups
- Support product teams with MiCAR analysis
- Deliver updates to executives and the board
- Partner with Vendor Management