Lead of Risk Strategy
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Lead of Risk Strategy
from 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | 🇮🇱 Israel | 🇩🇿 Algeria | 🇧🇭 Bahrain | 🇪🇬 Egypt | 🇯🇴 Jordan | 🇰🇼 Kuwait | 🇲🇦 Morocco | 🇶🇦 Qatar | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | 🇱🇧 Lebanon | 🇱🇾 Libya | 🇹🇳 Tunisia | 🇾🇪 Yemen | 🇴🇲 Oman
Responsibilities:
- Risk Strategy Development and Execution
- Define and implement comprehensive risk strategies to mitigate fraud risks across the platform and user base.
- Enhance detection scopes for key risk areas such as ATO, credit card fraud, and emerging scam patterns.
- Support new business initiatives and product launches with tailored risk strategies and controls.
- Continuously improve risk strategy governance in partnership with engineering teams to optimize risk detection and prevention.
- Monitor and report on critical risk KPIs, to maximize the protection and minimizing the loss.
- Oversee risk strategy management and ensure the quality and stability.
- Optimize risk cost efficiency, such as vendor cost management and risk strategy management efficiency.
- Provide full support to transaction screening and monitoring and other Compliance requirements through project management and innovation.
- Lead strategy initiatives for transaction screening and monitoring optimization, reducing rule complexity while maintaining compliance effectiveness.
- Collaborate closely with Compliance teams to explore and support new business scenarios, ensuring risk controls align with regulatory expectations.
- Lead and manage the risk strategy team, driving organizational changes and management approaches to support business growth.
- Foster a culture of agility and responsiveness within the team to meet evolving risk challenges and high-pressure demands.
- Identify areas for improvement in team structure and processes, implementing changes to enhance efficiency and scalability.
- Leverage advanced technologies, including AI and LLMs, to automate and enhance risk detection and prevention workflows.
- Pilot and scale new risk tools and methodologies, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory standards.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience (5+ years) in risk management, fraud prevention, or related strategic roles within fintech, financial services, or technology sectors, particularly in crypto industry.
- Proven track record in developing and executing risk strategies that deliver measurable risk savings and operational improvements.
- Strong knowledge of fraud detection techniques and compliance requirements.
- Experience managing complex projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams including Compliance, Data Science, Engineering, and Product.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to drive organizational change and foster high-performing teams.
- Proficiency in data-driven decision making and familiarity with AI/ML applications in risk management is highly desirable.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.




