Strategy & Operations – Risk
Location
France
Posted
62 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Strategy & Operations – Risk
Deblock
🧑💻 **What you’ll be working on** - **Strategic problem-solving:** Diagnose complex operational and regulatory challenges, frame solutions from first principles, and drive them to completion - **Outsourcing & risk foundations:** Build and own frameworks to manage inter-group outsourcing services: Performance management, risk assessment, and strategic ownership of service execution. - **Cross-functional execution:** Coordinate delivery across compliance, legal, product, and operations to deliver first-in-class products. - **Workflow and systems design:** Design and implement scalable operational controls spanning vendor due diligence pipelines, risk monitoring, and service performance using RAG pipelines, reasoning systems, and agentic automation.
Job Requirements
- 👀 **What we are looking for**
- STEM degree
- Love to learn and are innately curious
- Strong analytical skills and ability to leverage data to solve problems
- Ruthless prioritisation skills and incredibly organised, a project management pro
- Workflow builder: Track record of designing and maintaining scalable governance processes across operations and product scopes.
- Team player: collaboration, no-blame-game mindset, essential in a cross-functional compliance environment
- Based in France
- 🤩 **What will make you stand out**
- 2+ years of experience in the FinTech industry
- Experience with regulated environments
- Experience in fast-growing start-up or scale-up companies
- Experience with product governance and risk management
- Track record of end-to-end project delivery
Benefits
- 🤑 What you’ll get**
- Competitive salary + stock options
- Private dental + health insurance
- The best tech for your job
- 25 days of paid holidays (excl. bank holidays)
- Option to work 100% remotely or come to the office - your choice!
- Ability to work abroad for 4 months a year
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