# Chief Risk Officer — Aventus

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Location: Doha, Qatar
Type: full_time · Level: executive
Monthly salary: AED 6,054 to 9,081 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-09-30
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## Description

Title: Chief Risk Officer

Location: Qatar

About the Company

Our client is a well-established financial services institution in Qatar with a diversified business across corporate, commercial and retail markets. It is entering its next phase of growth and is putting a strong, forward-looking risk function at the centre of its strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise-wide risk agenda, setting strategy, policy and budget across financial and non-financial risk

• Design, embed and keep refining the risk management framework, including risk appetite, measurement, monitoring and control

• Bring global best practice into risk governance, including full alignment with Basel III

• Act as a trusted adviser to the CEO and Board committees, with clear, timely and forward-looking risk reporting

• Lead the credit, market and liquidity risk functions, including credit portfolio oversight and recovery

• Oversee operational resilience, covering operational risk, information security and business continuity

• Monitor capital adequacy, regulatory change and market movements, and step in early when the risk profile shifts

• Build strong, credible relationships with regulators and key external stakeholders

• Make sure audit and compliance findings are closed out properly and internal controls keep getting stronger

• Lead, develop and retain a high-performing risk team, with succession planning and a culture of accountability and integrity

Requirements

• 15+ years in risk management within financial services, including senior leadership of a multi-discipline risk function

• Broad expertise across credit, market, liquidity and operational risk, with solid exposure to technology and cyber risk

• In-depth working knowledge of Basel II/III, capital adequacy and regulatory frameworks

• Proven track record of building or transforming a risk framework at enterprise level

• Experience engaging with Boards, Board committees and regulators at the highest level

• Comes from a mature, established institution, with GCC or international exposure a plus

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## Requirements

15+ years in risk management within financial services, including senior leadership of a multi-discipline risk function; Broad expertise across credit, market, liquidity and operational risk, with solid exposure to technology and cyber risk; In-depth working knowledge of Basel II/III, capital adequacy and regulatory frameworks; Proven track record of building or transforming a risk framework at enterprise level; Experience engaging with Boards, Board committees and regulators at the highest level; Comes from a mature, established institution, with GCC or international exposure a plus

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