Risk Manager
Wirex offers borderless payment solutions, enabling crypto and fiat transactions.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
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About Wirex
Wirex integrates digital currencies with traditional finance, allowing users to manage cryptocurrencies alongside fiat. The app offers features like multi-currency accounts, crypto rewards, and a globally accepted debit card.
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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 design and manage the enterprise risk framework, risk appetite framework, risk register, KRIs, and reporting. You will oversee regulatory, operational, and third-party risks, support resilience and incident activities, and provide independent risk analysis and recommendations to senior leadership and the Board.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of risk-management experience in payments, EMI, banking, fintech, or regulated financial services
- Experience managing and assessing digital-asset, crypto-asset, payment, or financial-technology risks
- Understanding of first- and second-line-of-defense responsibilities and risk governance
- Experience developing or maintaining risk frameworks, risk registers, risk appetite frameworks, KRIs, and risk reporting
- Experience presenting risk information to senior management or governance forums
- Understanding of operational risk and risk mitigation
- Analytical and data interpretation skills
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Current residency in Cyprus
Responsibilities
- Design and enhance the Enterprise Risk Management Framework
- Maintain the Risk Appetite Framework, KRIs, risk register, and risk reporting processes
- Identify, assess, monitor, mitigate, and report material risks
- Prepare risk reports and management information for the Board and governance committees
- Provide independent risk insights and recommendations to senior management
- Oversee regulatory, financial-crime, and compliance risks
- Support regulatory licensing, filings, inspections, and supervisory responses
- Manage operational risk across process, people, technology, and third parties
- Support outsourcing and third-party risk assessments and monitoring
- Contribute to operational resilience and business continuity risk management
- Support incident management, root cause analysis, and remediation tracking
- Promote risk awareness and challenge risk decisions and control effectiveness
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- Hybrid working options
- Annual training and professional development allowance
- Support for relevant professional certifications