Head of risk - Ireland
Hybrid (Dublin)€135k - €165kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Head of risk for Seccl Ireland, responsible for building and leading the risk management framework, providing independent second-line oversight, and ensuring regulatory expectations with the Central Bank of Ireland are embedded as Seccl expands into Europe.
Responsibilities
- Building, maintaining and evolving Seccl Ireland’s risk management framework as the business grows, making sure it remains proportionate, effective and aligned with our strategy and regulatory obligations
- Providing independent second-line oversight, challenge and advice across strategic decisions, change programmes, business activity and outsourcing arrangements
- Supporting Seccl Ireland’s authorisation and ongoing relationship with the Central Bank of Ireland, ensuring regulatory expectations are understood and embedded across the business
- Setting and overseeing our risk appetite framework, making sure material and emerging risks are identified, monitored, reported and escalated appropriately
- Giving the board and risk and audit committees clear visibility of risk through effective reporting, assessments and management information
- Overseeing key risk areas including operational, outsourcing, ICT, information security, conduct, prudential and financial crime risk, alongside relevant frameworks such as DORA and CAR
- Building a strong risk culture across Seccl Ireland and strong relationships with the CBI, UK risk & compliance, auditors and teams across the wider business
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of risk management within Irish financial services and the expectations of the Central Bank of Ireland
- Ability to provide constructive challenge while building strong relationships with senior leaders and the wider business
- Understanding of second-line independence and comfort with escalation when something doesn’t feel right
- Ability to translate regulation and risk frameworks into practical approaches for a growing business
- Comfort operating across operational risk, outsourcing, ICT risk, resilience, prudential risk and governance
- Ability to communicate complex risk topics clearly to senior leadership and board level audiences
- Experience working cross-functionally with compliance, operations, finance, product, engineering and commercial teams
Skills
Required:Risk managementRegulatory relations (Central Bank of Ireland)
Benefits
- A salary between €135,000 and €165,000, dependent on experience and reviewed annually, plus a 6% employer pension contribution and life assurance
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with some flexibility around bank holidays, plus your birthday off
- Two volunteering days each year
- The option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
- Secclbrate recognition programme with flexible rewards
- One-month paid sabbatical after eight years
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- MacBook and up to €500 towards home office setup
- €750 annual learning budget
- Health and wellbeing support including free therapy and Headspace
- Perkbox with discounts and perks
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Seccl
The embedded investment platform
Our software and services help forward-thinking firms build the investment propositions of the future…
Embedded investmentsInvestment platformCustody serviceAPIWealth management
More open roles at Seccl
- Junior IT support analyst4d agoHybrid (Edinburgh) · Engineering
- Strategic delivery lead4d agoHybrid (London), Hybrid (Edinburgh) · Customer
- Senior implementation manager1w agoHybrid (Dublin) · Ireland
- Senior software engineer - EU squad3w agoHybrid (London) · Engineering
- Engineering manager1mo agoHybrid (London), Hybrid (Bath) +1 more · Engineering