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title: 'Senior Risk Manager at Trading212'
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# Senior Risk Manager at Trading212

- **Company:** Trading212
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/trading212/8f4cb417-6595-4721-919b-3976bb553713

## Job description

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth.

We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love. Fostering a culture of excellence and high velocity is the key to our success.

Over the past few years, our client base has grown 20 times to over 4 million, and client assets have grown over 50 times to over €5 billion.

## Role Overview

The Senior Risk Manager will play a crucial role in supporting the business to embed the Risk Management Framework and manage and mitigate risks across the organisation. You will be responsible for liaising with the first line of defence to support them in identifying and understanding their risk profile, assessing the design and effectiveness of controls and procedures, ensuring these align with internal policies. This role requires a deep understanding of financial markets, trading practices, and global best practices for risk management frameworks.

## What you’ll do

- Ensure the organisation’s approach to the management of risk is aligned with its risk appetite and strategy.
- Facilitate delivery and maintenance of Risk and Control Risk Assessments (RCSAs), ensuring appropriate oversight of risk identification, assessment and treatment are performed in line with risk appetite.
- Perform periodic independent second line of defence assurance through the delivery of individual controls testing and thematic assurance reviews.
- Identify gaps in the control environment and work with the first line of defence to determine remediation plans, ensuring progress is tracked and reported on through governance.
- Deliver Top-Down Risk Assessments through engaging with senior management and subject matter experts to identify material risks the Firm are exposed to.
- Maintenance of the legal entity Risk Register and overseeing the maintenance of thematic Risk Registers, including the Fraud Risk Register, Market Abuse Risk Register and Business Wide Financial Crime Risk Assessment.
- Participating in the ICARA process, ensuring all relevant risks are captured, quantified and adequately stressed.
- Providing oversight of risk events by working with first line colleagues to understand the root cause of events, their impact on the Firm and what corrective and preventive actions are required to remediate.
- Demonstrating a solid understanding of liquidity risk management.
- Delivering coherent, transparent and rigorous risk governance reporting.
- Delivery of Risk projects to develop, evolve and enhance both the design and embeddedness of the Firm’s Risk Management Framework and supporting processes.
- Provide an overview and challenge of the trading risk to which the firm is exposed.
- Ensure appropriate horizon scanning processes are implemented to identify and manage emerging risks.
- Providing second line risk reviews for new product and feature launches, and strategic and regulatory change initiatives, ensuring risk is identified from the offset, with downstream impacts managed and aligned to risk appetite.
- Support the identification and enhancement of both qualitative and quantitative risk appetite measures, ensuring these are tracked with any breach escalated and remediated in line with risk appetite.
- Preparing and presenting thematic risk reports and assessments to senior management and governance bodies.
- Fostering a healthy Risk Culture by promoting the view that risk management is a universal responsibility by encouraging open and transparent discussions without fear of retaliation.

## What you need to have

- Extensive knowledge of risk management principles and practices.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking abilities.
- High attention to detail and risk assessment skills.
- Effective communication and leadership capabilities.
- Understanding of the FCA’s MiFIDPRU framework, wind-down planning, and operational resilience
- Financial management, particularly capital and liquidity management.
- Management and understanding of market risk in a retail client base.
- Ability to develop and implement risk mitigation strategies.
- Proficiency in risk management software and tools.
- Outsourcing/TPRM experience is good to have.

## What we offer

- Unique challenges that will help you grow and realise your potential really fast
- Opportunity to make a big impact - you will create products used by millions of investors to build wealth
- Work with smart, high-performing colleagues with a common goal in a flat, cross-functional team structure
- An environment where nothing is set in stone, no bureaucracy
- Appreciation for your talent and ideas
- Generous remuneration package including annual bonuses

Bring your ambition to Europe’s fastest-growing mobile broker!

## About Trading212

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Trading 212 is a fintech company that democratises financial markets by offering a commission-free, easy-to-use app for trading stocks, ETFs, forex, commodities, and crypto.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by organic growth, no disclosed external funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: London, UK (with major offices in Limassol, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Sydney, Dublin, Sofia, and Plovdiv)
- **Founded**: 2004 (the company states 2004; some sources reference 2003)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (the founding team is not named in public sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Fintech – stock brokerage and digital investing
- **Target Customers**: B2C retail investors and traders; also serves sophisticated traders through quant tools
- **Mission/Purpose**: “To enable everyone to build wealth” by making financial markets accessible through advanced technology and zero-commission trading

## Products & Services
- **Trading 212 App**: Mobile and web platform for commission-free trading in stocks, ETFs, forex, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. Supports fractional shares, 24/5 trading, and multi-currency accounts.
- **Trading 212 Invest**: Core investing account with zero commissions on real stocks and ETFs.
- **Trading 212 ISA**: UK tax-efficient Stocks & Shares ISA account.
- **Trading 212 CFD**: Contracts for difference product for leveraged trading on forex, indices, commodities, and crypto (offered through CySEC-regulated entity).
- **Features**: 24/7 customer support, fractional shares, instant deposits/withdrawals, social investing (planned), API access for algorithmic trading.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**: Over 5 million lifetime funded accounts; €3+ billion in client assets; 650+ employees (global headcount); 17 nationalities represented
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors publicly listed (company is self-funded through revenue). Regulatory licences: FCA (UK), CySEC (Cyprus), BaFin (Germany), ASIC (Australia), FSC (Bulgaria).
- **Growth Signals**: Client base grew 20x and client assets grew 50x in the past few years; ranked UK’s #1 trading app since 2016 and Germany’s #1 in 2017; Trustpilot score of 4.6 with over 95,000 reviews

## Competitive Advantages
- **Zero-Commission Pioneer**: First broker to offer commission-free stock trading in the UK and Europe, disrupting the traditional brokerage model.
- **User Experience Obsession**: Built from the ground up with software engineering and product design at the core; consistently top-rated app.
- **Regulatory Trust**: Licensed and regulated in multiple jurisdictions (FCA, CySEC, BaFin, ASIC) with segregated client funds and compensation scheme coverage.
- **Client Support**: 24/7 support with average response time of 29 seconds.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Opening offices in new markets (e.g., Australia, Germany) and scaling engineering/product teams.
- **Technology Innovation**: Investing in quant trading, crypto infrastructure, social investing, data science, and extreme scalability.
- **Product Diversification**: Expanding beyond core trading into social/community features and advanced algorithmic tools.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Ideas over hierarchy” – critical thinking and challenge are encouraged; “Freedom and ownership” – employees own their work and decisions.
- **Team & Diversity**: 650+ teammates from 17 nationalities; hiring exceptional individuals with a collaborative, flat environment.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with offices in London, Berlin, Sofia, Plovdiv, Limassol, Dublin, Sydney, and Düsseldorf.
- **Perks & Benefits** (location-dependent): Premium health insurance, sports & wellness package, regular office massages, catered food and stocked kitchen, epic seasonal team buildings, game room in some offices.
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy focus on product engineering (Kotlin, React, React Native), data science, and infrastructure; open roles for senior/staff engineers and DevOps.

## Sources
1. [trading212.com](https://www.trading212.com/careers) – Careers page with stats, culture, and open roles
2. [trading212.com](https://www.trading212.com/about-us) – About us page with regulatory details and company description
3. [trading212.com](https://www.trading212.com/press) – Press page with key metrics
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/trading-212) – Built In profile with headcount, offices, and recent growth data
5. [trading212.com](https://www.trading212.com/) – Homepage featuring product stats and features

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