OTX Fintech Staffing seeks EVP, Chief Risk Officer for aggressively growing bank moving into Digital Assets & Crypto payments. Candidate must have a combination of Fintech & Banking Risk Management experience. Hybrid work schedule - 3 days reporting into NYC office
What You Will Do
- Own and build the end-to-end enterprise risk management framework, including policies, procedures, controls, and risk governance structures.
- Define the company’s risk appetite framework, ensuring alignment with global regulatory expectations and best practices around safety and soundness.
- Lead risk-related engagement with regulators and external stakeholders across jurisdictions, ensuring consistent and effective communication with CEO/C-Level team & Regulators.
- Design and implement risk systems, reporting, and monitoring across financial and non-financial risk areas.
- Act as a senior partner to executive leadership (including Legal, Compliance, Security, and Finance) while maintaining strict independence of the risk function.
- Build, scale, and lead a high-performing global risk team, including hiring, mentoring, and setting operating cadence.
About You
- 15+ years of experience in risk leadership roles within financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated industries, with experience building or transforming risk functions.
- Proven track record as a builder and executor — you have created frameworks, led remediation or transformation programs, and delivered under regulatory scrutiny.
- Deep understanding of enterprise risk management, controls, governance, and regulatory expectations across multiple jurisdictions.
- Comfortable operating in high-ambiguity, fast-scaling environments, with the judgment to balance innovation with appropriate risk tolerance.
- Strong operator mindset with the credibility to challenge senior stakeholders while partnering effectively across the organization.
- Strong technical competency across key financial and non-financial risk domains (e.g., market, credit, liquidity, operational, and technology risk).
- Experience working with and communicating with Regulators including OCC, FDIC and Third Party Vendors.