Chief Risk Officer Expedia Digital Solutions LTD

Expedia Digital is a Zambian FinTech that provides smart, robust and reliable e-payment solutions for businesses and governments. Our job is to make it easy for you to get paid and grow. Our payment gateway is a comprehensive solution that connects seamlessly to major credit cards – VISA, MasterCard, Banks, Microfinances and mobile money providers.

We are currently looking for a candidate to fill in the position of Chief Risk Officer. In this, position you will act as the corporate executive tasked with assessing and mitigating significant competitive, operational, compliance, legal, strategic, cyber, privacy, regulatory and technological threats to the enterprises assets including capital and earnings potentials.

Reporting to the chief executive officer, the successful candidate will:

• Provide the overall leadership, vision, and direction for risk management.
• Oversee the development, implementation and execution of the enterprise risk strategy and program.
• Oversee the development and update of risk maps and strategic action plans to mitigate the company’s primary threats, and monitor the progress of risk mitigation efforts.
• Build risk quantification and qualification models, algorithms and formulas to support the definition of risk appetite and tolerance levels.
• Oversee the execution of the annual enterprise risk assessment and remediation activities.
• Develop and disseminate risk analysis and progress reports to company executives, board members and employees.
  Operationalize risk management by building strategies and processes to integrate risk management priorities into the company’s overall strategic planning.
• Develop and implement information and risk assurance strategies to protect against and manage
  risk related to the use, storage and transmission of data and information systems.
• Evaluate potential operational risk stemming from employee errors or system failures that could disrupt business processes, then develop strategies to both reduce exposure to these risks and adequately respond when these issues occur.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, finance, statistics or a similar management discipline.
•  Solid understanding of various risk frameworks, practices and experience designing and implementing integrated risk frameworks in highly regulated industries.
• Strong problem-solving, conflict management, influencing and consensus building skills.
• Experience with internal and external audit.
• Minimum work experience 3 years.