Risk Manager, Upvest
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Investment API
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Investment API
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Upvest's mission is to make investing as easy as spending money and to enable businesses to build investment experiences their customers love.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow
- Are you passionate about risk management and looking for an opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic and ambitious investment firm?
- You're excited about fintech and passionate about investment
- You’re interested in defending, extending and strengthening Risk Policy & Control principles within a regulated investment firm
- You’re an advocate for a robust risk culture through reasonable policy principles
- You have a data driven mindset and demonstrate strong analytical skills in conducting in-depth risk analysis and risk forecasts
- You have a degree or equivalent in Economics, Finance or Statistics
- You worked in a Risk Management role for at least 3 years, preferably with a financial service or technology background
- You have strong organisational and communication skills to manage multiple tasks, integrate feedback from diverse stakeholders, and effectively engage with various audience groups
- You are familiar with building dashboards in Looker or other equivalent BI tools, and with using SQL and Python is a plus
- You are proactive in learning new technologies and take ownership of your work, demonstrating curiosity, collaboration, innovative thinking, and a hands-on mentality
- You enjoy working autonomously in a fast-paced, dynamic and inclusive startup environment
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken
What the job involves
- Join our team and be at the forefront of developing innovative risk management strategies and frameworks, with a focus on non-financial risk. As a proactive and collaborative risk control expert, you will strengthen our internal control system through automated monitoring and foster collaboration across the organisation
- You will contribute to enhancing risk awareness, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement in risk management practices. Your efforts will contribute to safeguarding our assets, optimising risk management, and ensuring regulatory compliance for scale
- Develop risk management strategies and frameworks focusing on non-financial risk
- Strengthen the internal control system via automated monitoring fostering automation and collaboration with various business lines
- Perform end-to-end walkthroughs of business processes, documenting business processes and controls, testing the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, and reporting on deficiencies
- Assess documentation to verify the presence and effectiveness of risk controls, ensuring they are properly implemented and operationally active
- Leverage data analytics to identify trends and anomalies within Operations and IT processes and act as a risk-control manager with a strong focus on operational risk
- Identify, integrate and optimise operational risk within the Risk and Controls Self-Assessment (RCSA) process
- Foster strong stakeholder engagement, understanding, and relationships
- Apply diverse analytical, problem-solving, and reporting techniques to ensure regulatory compliance
- Conduct data analysis, address issues, prepare reports, and present findings to stakeholders while staying updated on regulatory changes
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks that could disrupt business operations with a focus on non-financial risks
- Monitor and report on risk exposures and effectiveness of risk management practices
- Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements related to risk management
- Leverage data analytics to identify trends and anomalies within Operations and IT processes and act as a risk-control manager with a strong focus on operational risk
- Identify, integrate and optimise operational risk within the Risk and Controls Self-Assessment (RCSA) process
- Foster strong stakeholder engagement, understanding, and relationships
- Apply diverse analytical, problem-solving, and reporting techniques to ensure regulatory compliance
- Conduct data analysis, address issues, prepare reports, and present findings to stakeholders while staying updated on regulatory changes
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks that could disrupt business operations with a focus on non-financial risks
- Monitor and report on risk exposures and effectiveness of risk management practices
- Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements related to risk management
- Strengthen the internal control system via automated monitoring fostering automation and collaboration with various business lines
- Perform end-to-end walkthroughs of business processes, documenting business processes and controls, testing the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, and reporting on deficiencies
- Develop risk management strategies and frameworks focusing on non-financial risk
- Assess documentation to verify the presence and effectiveness of risk controls, ensuring they are properly implemented and operationally active
Our take
Upvest is a fintech startup that empowers financial services companies to provide their customers with access to a full range of financial assets, including stocks, ETFs and crypto products. Upvest's investment API integrates seamlessly with its customers existing systems and is designed to scale easily, freeing companies from the need to develop their own brokerage and custody infrastructure from scratch.
As one of the few companies in Germany that is licensed for both the custody of traditional securities and crypto, Upvest is able to provide its services across Europe. Its solution has been readily adopted by some major players in the space including Ginmon, Vivid and ABN AMRO.
Upvest is backed by a number of Europe's largest tech VCs (Earlybird, Notion Capital, Partech, HV Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures) alongside American investment monolith BlackRock. In 2023 it closed a VC investment round which the company has claimed is one of the largest in the German fintech arena. Its impressive capital raise will go some way to achieving Upvest's goals of profitability as it expands into the US market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2023
$31.8m
LATE VC
Jun 2022
$42m
SERIES B
Total funding: $92m
Company benefits
- Greenfield projects - We’re building something quite complex. A first in Europe. This means you get to work with cutting-edge technologies, with no legacy code.
- Wellbeing - Everyone here has access to our in-house coach. You can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally. We also believe it’s important to have time out to rest and recover, which is why we offer 30 days’ holiday.
- Development - In keeping with one of our values, ‘Learn and grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. And in line with one of our other values, ‘Own the outcome’, how you make the most of it is up to you.
- Flexibility - We work in a hybrid set-up, with the team spread around Germany and other parts of Europe. We give you the choice and budget to work where you’re most comfortable and productive, either at home or in the office. You choose.
Company values
- Learn and grow - We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback, knowing that we develop together. We value progression over perfection
- Team first - We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others’ opinions. We win and celebrate together. We nurture teams, not egos
- Own the outcome - Whether we win or lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. There are many ways to reach the outcome
- Tell the story - We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. We value transparency over complexity
Company HQ
Wrangelkiez, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Martin Kassing
(CEO)They have experience in fintech, private equity and capital markets. Founded another fintech, Shop.co, which was acquired by Klarna.
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