Company Description
Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.
We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.
Job Description
The role
Checkout.com are looking for an accomplished Risk professional, experienced in payments and technology, to join the Enterprise Risk Management Department in London. You’ll play a part in ensuring that Checkout.com has an effective Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework that meets the relevant regulatory and supervisory risk requirements across our global organisation. You’ll work collaboratively internally with stakeholders to ensure the ERM framework is properly implemented.
The Enterprise Risk Management department is responsible for setting the risk management strategy globally for Checkout.com. Team members work across functions, products, and regions to monitor front-line performance and ensure that the business is on safe footing. The department produces management information (MI) reports for relevant regional and global committees and entity boards.
The department is also responsible for managing and overseeing several core functions including management of the Risk and Control register, running the business continuity plan (BCP), conducting risk and control assessments, running the operational incident management process and responding to risk related regulator queries.
How you’ll make an impact
- Contributing to the evolution and implementation of the company's enterprise risk management strategy
- Working across the organisation to support the identification, evaluation and quantification of risks.
- Supporting the implementation of our risk framework across our global entities
- Maintaining cross-functional elements of our risk management framework
- Playing a role in strengthening firmwide risk awareness and culture
- Consolidating metrics for risk reporting requirements
- Maintaining and updating the risk and control register
Qualifications
What we’re looking for
- Upwards of 3-4 years of experience in a Risk function at a Financial Services company preferably with experience with payments
- Knowledge of financial services regulations and laws, Understanding of core risk management concepts
- Strong, project management and problem solving skills
- Experience in supporting risk management systems such as a GRC platform
- Analytical mindset with strong ability to quantify identified risks
- Affinity for data and comfortable managing it
- Team player who is also comfortable working independently
- Experience maintaining risk frameworks and building dashboards or data visualisations
Additional Information
Apply without meeting all requirements statement
If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
We believe in equal opportunities
We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use.
Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.
When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us.
We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.
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- Our Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSw
- Our careers page https://www.checkout.com/careers
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