Job Overview

Head of Fintech Banking Risk & Financial Controls

📍 Manama, Bahrain

💼 Executive Level | Banking Governance | Financial Risk | Strategic Leadership

Strategic Leadership Opportunity

A major financial transformation program in Bahrain is seeking a Head of Fintech Banking Risk & Financial Controls to lead enterprise-wide governance across operational banking risk, transaction controls, financial compliance, fraud prevention, and regulatory oversight within a modern digital banking environment.

This executive role is built for a senior professional capable of designing control frameworks that protect both customers and institutions while supporting innovation across payments, lending, merchant acquiring, digital banking services, and treasury operations.

You will own the strategic architecture of financial integrity—ensuring that operational growth remains aligned with regulatory discipline, audit readiness, and institutional resilience.

This is a rare leadership role where financial control systems directly define business sustainability and customer trust.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide banking risk governance across payments, settlements, treasury operations, lending workflows, and customer financial services
• Design and strengthen internal control frameworks for transaction monitoring, financial reporting, reconciliation integrity, and operational risk mitigation
• Oversee fraud prevention programs, suspicious transaction escalation, and financial incident management
• Improve complaint governance, customer remediation structures, and dispute resolution oversight
• Coordinate with compliance, audit, legal, and executive leadership on regulatory response strategies
• Build executive dashboards for risk reporting, operational controls, and governance performance metrics
• Support regulatory inspections, audit readiness programs, and enterprise policy modernization initiatives
• Strengthen merchant acquiring controls, payment recovery frameworks, and financial exception management systems
• Drive transformation programs involving automation, control optimization, and AI-supported risk intelligence
• Lead high-performing teams across financial controls, compliance operations, and governance functions
• Ensure strong alignment between innovation initiatives and financial risk frameworks
• Protect institutional reputation through proactive operational integrity leadership

Executive Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Banking, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline
• 8+ years of progressive leadership experience in banking operations, financial controls, compliance, or fintech governance
• Strong expertise in banking risk management, payments operations, reconciliation frameworks, and regulatory controls
• Deep understanding of GCC banking compliance standards and financial governance expectations
• Proven experience leading enterprise risk functions within banking or fintech institutions
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management capability
• Professional certifications in risk management, compliance, audit, or financial controls are highly preferred
• Ability to lead strategic transformation in complex financial environments

Why This Role Is Exceptional

This is more than a governance role—it is an opportunity to define how financial trust is protected across the future of banking.

You will shape the control systems that allow innovation to scale safely, responsibly, and sustainably across the Gulf’s evolving financial sector.

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