VP of Risk

1 month ago

Canada, CA GuruLink Full time

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Are you a risk management leader seeking a new challenge? Our client is a Calgary fin-tech success story that is fresh off a 20+ Million USD series B raise, and looking for a VP of Risk as they navigate their hyper growth phase. As a key player in our credit and fraud risk function, you will be responsible for shaping and executing the strategy that is the foundation of our payment processing platform. You’ll take a proactive approach to developing a forward-thinking strategy, identifying trends and anticipating risks, allowing for preemptive actions to be taken. You’ll leverage data-driven insights to optimize processes. Taking ownership of credit risk outcomes and leading strategic initiatives for the company.


This role leads the credit risk and fraud teams to design and execute mitigation strategies, including underwriting procedures, onboarding processes, and chargeback management. In this role you will meld your credit risk expertise with real-world processes and data to help us create an efficient, seamless, precise, and risk mitigation programme that encourages growth while reducing our exposure.


What You'll Be Doing:
  1. Drive a forward-thinking credit and fraud risk strategy.
  2. Drive innovation in risk management by staying abreast of industry best practices and emerging technologies.
  3. Provide leadership to the fraud function continuously improving processes and risk exposures.
  4. Develop and implement a comprehensive credit risk assessment framework to identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks across the organization.
  5. Implement controls to manage areas of credit risk. Leverage data to track and monitor credit risk exposure across our portfolio, proactively identifying changes in risk indicators.
  6. Work closely with operational teams to ensure that credit risk management processes are seamlessly integrated into day-to-day operations.
  7. Lead and mentor a high-performing team of risk professionals, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Provide guidance, coaching, and professional development opportunities to team members.
  8. Stay informed about evolving regulatory requirements and industry standards related to risk management.
  9. Serve as an advisor on risk within the organization. Clearly communicate risk strategies, findings, and actions to executive leadership and other relevant stakeholders.

What You Bring:
  1. Understands the need to stay one step ahead in a continuously changing and at times ambiguous risk environment.
  2. Has experience in fraud understanding the unique risks associated with financial service, FinTech, or payments.
  3. Has experience in lending and can use internal and external data to determine risk tolerance in regards to extending credit.
  4. Is able to leverage data to develop and optimize credit strategies, including underwriting and customer management strategies.
  5. Has a thirst for data and a keen awareness of how to use it to prioritize work for the risk teams, detect patterns, and solve complicated puzzles.
  6. Curates a broad (local, national, global) financial perspective with a keen desire to relate it back to our risk mitigation operations.
  7. Is a creative thinker who considers problems from a customer perspective while being pragmatic and solutions-oriented when solving them.
  8. Has considerable empathy for our customers - typically small and medium size business owners - who will take a human-centric approach to help solve problems.
  9. Self-starter that thrives in a fast-paced environment and is experienced in building processes from 0-1.

Must Have Skills:
  1. 5+ years of relevant experience in credit risk management, lending, or fraud management.
  2. Proven experience in credit risk management, bonus if it was with a financial institution.
  3. Strong strategic thinking abilities, with the capacity to anticipate and proactively address credit risk challenges.
  4. Building credit risk program, systems, processes, scorecards, technology.
  5. Experience with predictive modeling is considered an asset.
  6. This is about building a framework for our credit / underwriting / decision engine.
  7. Focus more on underwriting / lending, less on fraud (although fraud should be in there).
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