Enterprise Risk Manager – UAE

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Company

Global financial technology company providing payment infrastructure, multi-currency accounts, transfers, payment acceptance, and corporate cards across regulated markets.

What you will do

• Adapt and operationalise the global enterprise risk architecture for the UAE, including risk appetite, taxonomies, governance standards, limits, escalation protocols, reporting, and decision rights.
• Partner with Regulatory Compliance, Legal, and UAE leadership to align risk governance with Central Bank of the UAE expectations for Stored Value Facilities and Retail Payment Services.
• Prepare decision-useful reporting on risk data, incidents, issues, trends, and key risk indicators for management, leadership, committees, regulators, and the Board.
• Provide independent second-line challenge on initiatives that may exceed risk appetite, regulatory expectations, or control maturity.
• Support risk assessment and approval for new products, payment services, markets, partnerships, systems changes, and operating-model changes.
• Develop UAE crisis management, resilience, business continuity, escalation, and severe-but-plausible scenario frameworks while contributing to global risk tools, dashboards, automation, and data-quality initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Law, STEM, or another relevant quantitative field.
• 5 to 7+ years of experience in risk management, operational risk, enterprise risk, compliance, controls, or audit within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience with risk appetite statements, risk taxonomies, governance processes, escalation mechanisms, and defense frameworks.
• Practical familiarity with the UAE financial services regulatory environment and the Central Bank of the UAE, including requirements related to electronic money, Stored Value Facilities, or Retail Payment Services.
• Experience preparing risk papers and communicating with executives, Boards, committees, regulators, or auditors, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High ownership, pragmatic judgment, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Nice to have

• Fintech and payments experience, including cross-border payments, merchant acquiring, card schemes, local payment methods, or multi-entity regulated groups.
• Experience governing risk approvals in fast-moving product and engineering environments.
• Strong data literacy and experience with dashboards, metrics, and technology-enabled risk tools.
• Interest in automation, AI, and scalable tooling for issue management, reporting, and second-line efficiency.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Financial Crime Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, and Legal teams.
• Opportunity to shape risk management at a global fintech and support the UAE entity’s regulated payments expansion.
• Work within a global risk function focused on scalable, consistent, and pragmatic risk management.