Senior Risk Manager

Amsterdam, Netherlands 

• Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?   

• Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on, payment-building experience? 

• Do you want to have the opportunity to learn from payments experts and utilise your skills to help Modulr grow the business? 

• If so, we would love to hear from you! 

We are looking to hire a high-energy, experienced and value-adding senior risk professional to join Modulr, the fastest growing payments business in the UK and Europe. 

About Us 

At Modulr, we envision a world where all businesses are powered by embedded payments. We enable businesses, from SMEs to enterprises, across the UK and Europe to efficiently make payments, collect funds, and disburse money instantly through a range of payment schemes, accounts, and card products. Our industry-leading API platform provides comprehensive online tools to meet the demands of daily business payments. We’ve partnered with leading accounting and payroll platforms, including Sage, Xero, BrightPay, and IRIS. This expertise and product capability allow us to craft tailored solutions to solve complex payment challenges for hundreds of clients in industries such as Travel, Merchant Payments, Lending, Wage Advance, and Investment & Wealth. 

Deeply integrated into the payment ecosystem, we are direct participants of Faster Payments and Bacs in the UK and hold settlement accounts at the Bank of England. Our payment network includes CHAPS, Open Banking, SEPA, SWIFT, and account issuance in 11 currencies. Additionally, we are principal issuing members of Visa and Mastercard in the UK and Europe. As an Authorised Electronic Money Institution (AEMI), we are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK and De Nederlandsche Bank in the Netherlands. Founded by industry experts with extensive experience in payments and scaling successful businesses, Modulr is backed by venture arms of PayPal, FIS, and other growth investors. Today, we have over 400 employees across offices in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, and Mumbai. 

Our Values 

• Building the extraordinary – Always going the extra mile. 

• Owning the opportunity – Be passionate about your work. 

• Move at pace – Achieve goals quickly, while being supported in your career growth. 

• Achieve it together – Collaboration is key to our success. 

The Role 

We are looking for a Senior Risk Manager to join our Second Line Risk and Compliance Function in Europe.  The role holder will be accountable for the development, implementation and ongoing enhancement of risk management policies, processes and frameworks. There will be a specific focus on the European business, but a key success factor will be to work across the Group co-ordinating and aligning with the UK business to drive consistency and share best practices across the organisation. The role will work across all risk types relevant to an EMI/Payments business including operational, information/IT security, prudential, financial crime, safeguarding and operational resilience.   

Modulr has a strong team with extensive experience in payments, so you will have a chance to learn from some experts with a real passion for developing the business.    

Specific duties 

• Drive the strategy to develop our European and support Group wide risk management strategy, ensuring they are underpinned with appropriate policies, frameworks and processes. 

• Oversee and manage the day-to-day operation of our risk management processes, providing guidance and support across the business, and identifying opportunities for improvement.    

• Ensure there is effective analysis of internal and external data and intelligence, reporting into relevant governance structures and models to inform risk assessments, developing insight into trends and themes and recommendations for corrective actions.  

• Maintain and enhance the mechanisms to record, assess and track risk issues across the business.   

• Champion a strong risk culture, influencing people across the business to ensure risk management and resilience by design including the design, development and delivery of training.      

• Provide high quality, informative and timely management information.   

• Contribute to the wider Second Line Risk and Compliance and business strategy – maintaining expertise on risk management practices in our sector, and a strong understanding of how external risk factors will or may influence our business. 

About you: 

The Ideal Candidate 

• You will need to have worked in a similar role within a fast-paced financial institution or consultancy environment and be familiar with the role of risk management in a regulatory context for at least 5 years. 

• It would be great if you have exposure to Payments and FinTech but not essential. 

• Great engagement and influencing skills, recognising the importance of developing strong relationships with stakeholders to achieve results and having the confidence to challenge more senior members of staff in an appropriate way.    

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to deliver clear and concise messages.   

• Structured and organised, and able to handle a fast-paced environment and competing priorities.  

What can Modulr offer you 

• Incentive Scheme: Share Options for all employees.  

• Company Bonus: The more successful we are, the greater the reward.  

• Flexible Benefits: Over €1,000 per year to use however you like (add to your pension, use for travel, etc.).  

• Pension: We contribute 10% of your pensionable salary to your company pension scheme.  

• Share Options: Modulr share options are offered depending on your level and are issued in January following your start date.  

• Perkbox: Access to discounts and freebies on various products and services.  

• 33 Days Holiday: Including your birthday off. Choose the days you want to take off.  

• Learning Opportunities: Our two-day onboarding program, ModStart, helps equip you for success. Learning doesn’t stop there; we’ll continue to support your development through various channels.  

• Company-Wide Events: Join colleagues for fun, collaborative events throughout the year.  

• Great Workspace: Innovation thrives through in-person collaboration. Our offices in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Mumbai are designed to encourage this.  

• Travel Commuting Allowance: We offer a commuting allowance to help cover the cost of traveling to our office 

ModInclusion  

We believe that a diverse and inclusive culture is vital to our success. We encourage applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds, ensuring that everyone at Modulr feels they belong and can bring their authentic selves to work.  

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