Risk Manager (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom, with three days per week expected in the London Paddington office

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company serving consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Provide second-line risk management oversight for hirify.global Direct, including hirify.global Payments Limited, The Currency Cloud Limited, B2B Connect, VGSI, and YellowPepper.
• Identify, assess, manage, and mitigate strategic, financial, operational, ecosystem, legal, and compliance risks.
• Maintain risk registers, key risk indicators, management reporting, and risk profiles, escalating material issues to leadership.
• Oversee risk and control self-assessments, challenge control design and effectiveness, and design risk control testing.
• Monitor incidents, events, issues, and ongoing risk reporting across business units, risk committees, and entity boards.
• Collaborate with hirify.global Risk teams, senior business leaders, regulators, auditors, and professional assessors to strengthen risk management capabilities.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience in risk management, including identifying, assessing, managing, and reporting different risk types.
• Strong understanding of payments, financial services, payment products, financial risks, compliance risks, technology risks, and payment service regulations.
• Experience working with regulators and collaborating cross-functionally on comprehensive risk assessments.
• Strong communication, data analysis, business acumen, management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to advise senior leadership.
• Experience with risk management tools and proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.
• Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience in accounting, finance, or business.

Nice to have

• Experience in a Top 4 accounting or consulting firm.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work policy with regular in-office collaboration in London.
• Opportunity to contribute to payments infrastructure operating at global scale.
• Focus on strengthening risk culture, training, awareness, and control standards.
• Work with business leadership, risk committees, regulators, auditors, and professional assessors.