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BVNK is a stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure platform now part of Mastercard. The company enables enterprises to build financial products, unlock new markets, and move money across 130+ countries with 40+ licenses for fiat and digital assets. Trusted by industry leaders like Corpay, Worldpay, Deel, and Flywire, BVNK processes billions annually and is recognized as one of CNBC's Top Fintech Companies (2026) and LinkedIn's Top 20 UK Startups (2025).
You will serve as Head of Risk for BVNK's Singapore business, reporting to the VP, Group Risk & Governance. This is a senior, hands-on role requiring someone who can move fluidly between strategy and execution—from engaging with senior stakeholders and regulators to maintaining risk frameworks, risk appetite statements, RCSAs, KRIs, and entity-level risk reporting.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning and overseeing the risk management framework for BVNK's Singapore entity, ensuring alignment with local regulatory expectations and the Group risk framework
- Partnering with the VP, Group Risk & Governance and senior leadership to ensure effective, consistent, and scalable risk management
- Establishing, maintaining, and enhancing the Singapore entity's risk appetite, policies, and supporting processes
- Leading the Enterprise Wide Risk Assessment (EWRA), ensuring material risks are identified, assessed, monitored, and mitigated
- Developing and embedding Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and other risk metrics to provide visibility of BVNK Singapore's risk profile
- Providing independent second-line oversight and challenge to the business on risks associated with growth, new products, partnerships, and operational changes
- Ensuring appropriate risk governance and reporting, including escalation of risks outside agreed appetite
- Supporting engagement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and other regulatory stakeholders
- Identifying and assessing emerging risks and regulatory developments impacting Singapore operations
- Working closely with Group Risk, Compliance, Financial Crime, Legal, Product, and Operations to embed effective risk management
- Championing a strong risk culture and helping first-line risk owners understand their responsibilities
- Contributing to the development of BVNK's Group risk frameworks, sharing local expertise
The company offers competitive salary, flexible working hours with hybrid arrangements at its core, a culture built on growth-minded people, flexible holiday policies, opportunities to travel to offices worldwide, and an open, creative environment.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Significant experience in risk management within a regulated financial services environment, ideally in payments, e-money, fintech, banking, or digital assets
- Strong knowledge of the Singapore financial services regulatory environment and experience operating within MAS-regulated businesses
- Proven experience developing, implementing, and maintaining Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks, policies, and processes
- Strong understanding of risk appetite frameworks, risk taxonomies, risk registers, risk assessment, KRIs, and risk governance
- Experience providing effective second-line risk oversight and challenge within a regulated organization
- Experience working with regulators and senior governance forums, with ability to communicate complex risk matters clearly and confidently
- Strong experience preparing risk reporting and papers for senior management, executive committees, and/or Boards
- Demonstrated ability to make sound, risk-based decisions and balance regulatory expectations with the needs of a fast-growing business
- Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence to influence and challenge senior stakeholders when required
- Comfortable operating with high degree of autonomy and managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving, evolving environment
- Collaborative leadership style and ability to build strong risk culture across risk teams and the wider business
