Risk Manager, Payments
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BinanceFintech, Payments
Kazakhstan, Astana / Kazakhstan, Almaty / CIS RegionFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluent Russian and English required; Kazakh strongly preferred.
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLMicrosoft ExcelComplianceFinancial analysisRisk Management
Requirements
- Degree in finance, economics, mathematics, or a related field; professional certification (FRM, PRM, CFA) is an advantage.
- 5+ years of risk management experience at a bank, payment organisation, fintech company, or other regulated financial institution.
- Strong knowledge of NBK prudential and risk management requirements for banks and payment organisations.
- Knowledge of international risk management standards (Basel principles, COSO, ISO 31000).
- Hands-on experience with operational, liquidity, currency, and counterparty risk management, including limit setting and monitoring.
- Knowledge of the AIFC/AFSA regulatory framework is a strong advantage.
- Experience building or developing a risk management function, including policies, risk registers, and risk appetite frameworks.
- Experience preparing risk reporting for boards and regulators, and supporting regulatory inspections and audits.
- Strong analytical skills; advanced Excel required, SQL or Python is an advantage.
- Experience in crypto, digital assets, or e-money is an advantage.
- Ability to work independently and effectively with global cross-functional teams.
- Fluent Russian and English required; Kazakh strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain the risk management framework of the local licensed payment business in line with NBK and AFSA requirements, including risk policies, procedures, and the three lines of defence model.
- Develop the risk appetite statement, risk limits, and key risk indicators, and monitor compliance with them on an ongoing basis.
- Identify, assess, and monitor key risks, including operational, liquidity, currency, counterparty, fraud, outsourcing, information security, and compliance risks, and maintain the risk register.
- Monitor compliance with prudential norms and capital requirements, including capital adequacy, liquidity, and open currency position limits, and escalate breaches or early warning signals.
- Assess counterparty risk of partner banks and other key counterparties, including risks related to the safeguarding of client funds.
- Conduct stress testing and scenario analysis, and contribute to capital and liquidity planning.
- Perform risk assessments of new products, services, and material changes, including those involving digital assets, and provide risk opinions to management.
- Maintain the operational incident and loss event database, analyse root causes, and track remediation actions.
- Oversee business continuity and operational resilience arrangements in cooperation with the technology and operations functions.
- Prepare risk reports for the Board of Directors, its committees, and senior management, as well as risk-related regulatory reporting to the NBK and AFSA.
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