Risk & Control Director

London OR UK Remote | £110,000 – 160,000 + Benefits | Hear from the team

Our Risk & Control team

We’re looking for a Director to join our Risk & Controls Discipline (RCD) to lead our central Shared Services function, to drive fresh thinking within the first line risk management space, and help us achieve the next phase of our growth ambition. The successful person will help our Risk Business Partners and senior leaders to shape and implement controls, and run all aspects of Monzo’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) in the first line of defence. They will lead the Shared Services function to empower our Risk Business Partners with the tools, processes and information to give actionable insights to our business leaders. Directors at Monzo join the company-wide Senior Leadership Team and are expected to lead both within their role but also make a broad impact across the organisation.

You’ll play a key role by…

• Leading a team of experts, balancing delivery with continuous improvement, and engaging with senior leadership to drive strategic impact.
• Representing Monzo in external regulatory engagements and industry forums, managing requests and enhancing our regulatory relationships.
• Ensuring thorough execution of risk-based commitments, and synthesising insights from risk assessments to inform both current and future practices.
• Aggregating and challenging outputs from risk assessments (RCSA) in the 1st line, joining the dots, making sense of the combined results and focusing on both historical and proposed practices.
• Elevating Monzo’s control environment to greater maturity and scalability, pioneering a proactive approach to risk management.
• Fostering positive relationships across the three lines of defence, addressing control gaps, implementing effective solutions, and promoting a transparent risk culture.

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You bring exceptional risk and control expertise from UK banks, financial services, or FinTech.
• You have a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and tackle complex issues in matrix environments.
• You have a strong track record in managing 1st line risk – and are ‘hands on’ in doing so – with experience growing new business ‘in control’.
• You’re a data-driven control leader.
• You thrive in fast-paced settings, showcasing resilience, adaptability, and exceptional execution skills as the landscape evolves.
• You exhibit curiosity and collaboration, adept at asking insightful questions and quickly acting on new information.
• Experience in fintech, deploying AI, or working in scaling environments or tech companies is a plus!

What’s in it for you

£110,000 – £160,000 share options.

We can sponsor your visa.

This role can be based in our London office, but we’re open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits .

The application journey has 3 key steps

• Recruiter call (30 mins).
• Initial Call w/ Hiring Manager (30 min).
• 2 hours of technical and behavioural interviews.

This process should take around 2-3 weeks – your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to . You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.

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