Chief Risk Officer

You will sit on ExCo and work in close partnership with the Founder and the broader leadership team. Your mandate is to lead the risk agenda end-to-end - setting the framework, building the function, engaging regulators proactively, and ensuring Capital.com grows fast without growing reckless. The risk function today comprises a central group team and local risk heads across key markets. It is in a build phase. You are inheriting the foundation and shaping what it becomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and continuously evolve the enterprise risk framework - risk appetite, taxonomy, governance, and the operating model across the three lines - for a business spanning six regulated entities and growing
• Lead all risk domains: market, credit, liquidity, operational, conduct, technology, regulatory, and crypto risk
• Oversee the 24-hour risk monitoring function that supports Capital.com's global trading platform
• Own hedging strategy oversight and client exposure management in partnership with the Dealing function
• Drive capital planning, ICAAP/ILAAP, stress testing, VaR back-testing, and scenario analysis across all entities
• Ensure full DORA compliance across ICT risk management, digital operational resilience, and third-party ICT oversight
• Own the MiCA and CASP risk obligations as Capital.com expands into spot crypto across the EU
• Lead regulatory relationships proactively across the FCA, CySEC, ASIC, DFSA, and CMA - and build those relationships in new markets as licences are secured
• Support new jurisdiction entry from day one - providing risk leadership on market expansion before launch
• Build and develop the risk team - developing talent, managing inherited structures, and building the function the business needs for 2028, not just today
• Report to ExCo and the Board on risk matters - translating complexity into clear business language and decisions that enable growth

Requirements

Experience and credentials

• Significant senior risk leadership experience in a regulated financial services environment - trading, brokerage, CFD, or closely adjacent
• Deep multi-jurisdictional regulatory knowledge - FCA and CySEC are essential; ASIC, DFSA, CMA, and MiCA/CASP experience are a strong advantage
• Proven track record building or materially maturing a risk function - not just maintaining one that already works
• Strong technical depth across market risk, operational risk, regulatory capital, and digital resilience (DORA)
• CFA or FRM preferred - exceptional experience may substitute

How you operate

• You move without being directed. When you see a problem, you act on it - you do not wait to be asked.
• You take end-to-end ownership. You drive outcomes. You do not pass the buck.
• You bring fresh thinking. You do not default to how it was done in your last role.
• You listen. You build trust across teams. You develop the people around you.
• You are commercial. You understand that risk management exists to enable growth - not to obstruct it.
• You are board-ready. You can hold your own in a regulator meeting, an ExCo debate, or a conversation with the founder.