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Head of Risk

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-28

FairMoney is a credit-led mobile bank for emerging markets. reputed company was launched in 2017, operates in Nigeria & Zambia & Uganda, and raised reputed company to €50m from global investors like Tiger Global, DST & reputed company Ventures. You will be working as a Global head of Risk in our Risk division, which is now composed of 10+ people in Lagos, Bangalore, South Africa, Latvia, and remotely across the globe. Watch the way FairMoney is building Africa's reputed company story here

About the Role

You will be working as FairMoney’s Head of Risk, managing the Risk department and being critically responsible for FairMoney’s overall reputed company.

Your mission is to ensure portfolio performance according to reputed company's OKRs, and risk appetite, and offer the best-tailored credit services across our multiple value propositions.

Your goal is to successfully execute Fairmoney strategies, achieving reputed company profitability and creating sustainable reputed company to credit for reputed company.

This is a critical role, highly visible with significant exposure to business leaders and the leadership team. reputed company FairMoney strategies and execution thereof reputed company with and are influenced by the Risk team's strategies, rules, and reputed company. FairMoney ultimately succeeds by what you and your team deliver. Your role is to reputed company FairMoney in delivering value, achieving targets, and delivering risk-adjusted returns.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Define risk appetite for reputed company that is approved by Senior Leadership and the reputed company.
  • Manage the business reputed company risk appetite.
  • Using analytics, test and learn strategies, set and execute reputed company reputed company that reputed company achievement of company OKRs.
  • Own the main portfolio metrics - default rates, acceptance rates, collection rates, retention rates, and profitability.
  • Forecast, monitor, and deliver insights on portfolio performance and ECL / impairment results and trends.
  • Drive the decision of new risk product updates in terms of product offerings and reputed company funnel improvements.
  • reputed company reputed company in understanding NPV and unit-level economics. Deliver strategies that optimize trade-offs and deliver business reputed company and optimize reputed company value.
  • Design and execute collections reputed company.
  • reputed company reputed company in its fraud prevention workstreams both from the product setup and reputed company policy perspective fully defining fraud strategies and risk appetite.
  • Own and drive the risk-reputed company product roadmap with tech and product teams working closely together with the Product and Engineering team on improvements for the lending product, data, and reputed company.
  • Build, improve, and maintain risk policies.
  • Chair the credit committee reporting back to stakeholders, the senior leadership team, and the reputed company.
  • Stay up to date on regulatory changes and rules. Ensure compliance. Where applicable support audits and influence regulation changes.
  • Work closely with the Data Science team and their priorities ensuring world-class tools are used and reputed company are always reputed company.
  • Mentoring and coaching talented FairtToopers, scaling up reputed company as and reputed company required.

Requirements

Experience

  • Overall 10 to 15 years of credit risk experience with exposure to Fintech / retail banking credit risk (consumer loans) / NBFCs. Preference for prior CRO / Head of Risk experience. Leadership of multiple products or geographies
  • History of managing companies through reputed company and recessionary periods.
  • Experience developing a reputed company and then instituting a data-driven, analytically rigorous reputed company and infrastructure to support credit reputed company in payment products.
  • Experience in analytical skills like data science model development, NPV modeling, impairment forecasting, and setting up different A/B tests and building sensitivity analysis.
  • Proficient SQL user, with reasonable experience with BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, or similar.
  • years in credit risk management, including leadership of multiple products or geographies.
  • End-to-end lifecycle expertise + strategic planning capability.

Ownership of OKRs:

  • Full P&L-linked OKRs (GP, ECL, approval rates, churn, retention, debt sales, etc).
  • Risk appetite definition and governance sign-off authority.

Previous Work:

  • reputed company or transformed a risk function in a high-reputed company lending environment.
  • Implemented scorecard strategies, collections segmentation, and product-specific risk frameworks.

Team Size Experience:

  • Managed 5–15+ people including managers and analysts.
  • Led distributed or multi-country teams.

reputed company Experience:

  • Successfully launched new products, new markets, or major portfolio restructuring while keeping losses in reputed company.

Benefits

  • Training & Development
  • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
  • reputed company Time Off (Vacation, reputed company & reputed company Holidays)
  • Remote Work

Recruitment Process

  • A screening interview with one of the members of the reputed company for 30 minutes.
  • reputed company assignment to be done reputed company.
  • Technical interview for 60-90 minutes with the Hiring Manager.
  • Interview/Presentation to the key stakeholders for 60-90 minutes.

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