Operational Risk Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Freetrade

Freetrade

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're here to change that.- We're a technology company that brings simple investing to everyone.

We've built a beautiful app to buy and sell shares and ETFs in a fluid, mobile-first experience.- We're building a team with diverse and unique perspectives in order to help us on our mission to demystify investing, making it more accessible.- Our goal is to help our customers achieve better, long-term financial outcomes, chipping away at one of the biggest issues of our generation: wealth inequality.- _Honey by Freetrade_, offers regular market news and insights, as well as deep dives into the companies and trends that the new generation of investors care about most.- This has all been possible because of the backing of a passionate group of over 10,000 crowdfunding investors.

As we've scaled, we've also raised money from world-class growth investors including Left Lane Capital, Molten Ventures, and
- _L_ Catterton to supercharge our growth.

We are looking for an Operational Risk Specialist. This role will be responsible for working alongside the Product verticals and business functions to manage and improve the operational risk framework to support and enable our expansion strategy.

You will:

Help embed the framework and tools for identifying, assessing and documenting operational risks in our business today, as well as those we will face as we expand to new territories and roll out new products
Establish, review and report on key risk indicators, as well as limit frameworks
Own the operational risk incident governance, including incident response processes, recording and categorisation of events, postmortems and risk incident reports
Assist with the documentation of the risk framework including creating or updating risk, error, and related policies and procedures.
Educate, assist and drive adoption amongst the business areas of risk ownership, measurement and development of common processes.
Drive Risk reporting to senior management, including taking ownership for the overall creation of the monthly Risk & Compliance Committee report
Working closely with both the Finance team and business Risk Owners to establish and implement methodologies and tools for quantifying Operational and Business risk as part of the capital adequacy process / ICARA process

About you:

You have experience of Operational Risk Management, with a regulated financial services background (this can be either within a 2nd line Operational Risk team, a 1st line business risk team / champion or other experience).
You ideally have experience from a technologyled financial institution and/or startup / scaleup environments
You ideally have experience of contributing to ICAAPs /ICARAs, especially operational risk aspects
You prioritise a practical approach to risk management over a theoretical one
You can translate risk concerns and processes to employees from a diverse group of disciplines, including nonfinancial ones
You are resourceful and selfstarting; you have appetite for picking up areas of which you have limited past experience
You are ambitious and attracted to Freetrade's company mission and to building your career at a fastpaced scaleup
You are excited by working in continual partnership with the product verticals and across functions
You are constantly looking to learn, whether deepening your risk knowledge or increasing your context from working across the company or from the financial sector

Logistics & Benefits- We offer a competitive salary plus stock options and lots of other benefits.

You'll have a stake in the company you're building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies.
We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability we want to hear from you. We're very open about what we're working on, and the best places to learn more are our buzzing_

- community forum_
- and our_
- blog._
- here._

Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.
About Freetrade

Freetrade is an award-winning investing app with over 1 million users. ‍ Our mission is to get everyone investing by making it simpler and more affordable.

We bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds, ranging from leading financial services companies to Big Tech to more.

Together we are focused on building an open and transparent stockbroker you can trust.
Openness and transparency is in our DNA and applies to all aspects of our company. We encourage an open and inclusive environment and pride ourselves on being candid, curious, focused, humble and gritty.
Our headquarters are based in London and we're hiring.

Department
Operations

Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time

Location
London

Workplace type
Hybrid