Risk Manager

Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide. We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions. Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money.

We are looking for a Risk Manager to lead the risk management function of Lightspark’s Estonian regulated entity, an e-money institution and crypto-asset service provider. The role will be responsible for building out and running a risk framework that keeps pace with a fast-growing business, covering everything from risk appetite and key risk indicators to ICT risk, business continuity and the safeguarding of client funds. You will work closely with the Management Board, the Supervisory Board and teams across the business, giving practical risk guidance that supports sustainable growth with a risk based methodology applied to new business. If you enjoy building structure from the ground up, want real ownership of a second-line function and are interested in stable coins, card payments and embedded finance, this is a good opportunity to make a real difference.

As the Risk Manager, you will report to a member of the Management Board and own the company’s risk management framework end to end. Your work will cover the risk appetite statement and its reporting, risk and control registers, key risk indicators, company-wide risk assessments, fraud risk, ICT and security risk under DORA, business continuity, third-party risk and oversight of finance-related risks such as own funds and safeguarding. You will also lead our risk-related supervisory reporting, prepare the company for supervisory reviews and build risk awareness across the organization. This is a second-line role where independent judgement and the ability to turn regulation into working processes matter equally.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own and develop the risk management policies and procedures, including their annual review and the risk-related processes embedded in other company policies.

• Map the company’s key risks to first-line owners, define measurable and collectible key risk indicators and set up ongoing risk monitoring.

• Build and maintain the risk and control register, with a documented annual review cycle.

• Finalize and run the Risk Appetite Statement, including mapping data sources, populating the reporting form and reporting quarterly to the Management Board and the Supervisory Board for approval.

• Lead company-wide risk assessments, including for new products, business lines and material changes.