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Director, Financial Risk

Koho
CompanyKoho
CategoryFinance
LocationKOHO (CAN)
RemoteRemote
EmploymentNot stated
LevelDirector
SalaryUSD 180k
Posted4 Jun 2026
Last verified9 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (ashby)
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Description
ABOUT KOHO We’re on a mission to make financial services better for every Canadian. That means no hidden fees, no predatory interest rates - just financial products designed to help our users spend smart, save more, and build real wealth. We’re a performance organization with a strong heart: we care deeply about outcomes, and everything ties back to our mission - to financially empower a generation of Canadians. At KOHO, we’re not your average 9-5. We believe real impact comes from people who are trusted, empowered, and supported to do their best work - without sacrificing their lives to do it. We prioritize work-life integration, not just work-life balance. That means asynchronous collaboration, flexible hours, and a remote-first setup built around autonomy and high trust. KOHO is entering its next chapter - leaner, smarter, more AI-integrated. We’re building for impact, not bureaucracy. If you thrive in environments that value clarity, ownership, and bold thinking, you’ll fit right in. ABOUT THE ROLE KOHO is looking for a Director, Financial Risk to lead the strategy and analytics efforts within our financial risk management function. In this pivotal role, you will oversee both Credit Risk and Non-Credit Financial Risk (including Market and Liquidity Risk), managing a team of people managers and experts to safeguard KOHO’s financial health while enabling sustainable growth. Working closely with Product, Finance, Technology, and Data teams, you will lead a team of financial risk subject matter experts in the development and implementation of analytical frameworks that drive our risk decisions and ensure regulatory compliance. In addition to being the financial risk SME in the development of risk and valuation models, you will have end-to-end ownership for risk appetite metrics and loss forecasting, IFRS 9 provisioning, and portfolio monitoring. You will also provide "effective challenge" and decision governance across the organization. WHAT YOU'LL DO LEAD & DEVELOP THE TEAM - Manage and mentor a high-performing team of people managers and individual contributors across all Financial Risk domains. - Foster a culture of rigorous analysis, ownership, and continuous improvement. FINANCIAL RISK GOVERNANCE & OVERSIGHT - Decision Governance: Establish and maintain robust decision governance frameworks for key business decisions with Financial Risk impact, ensuring that they align with KOHO’s risk appetite. - Effective Challenge: Provide "effective challenge" on decisions impacting financial risk, such as model development and performance monitoring activities by Tech/Data Science, financial risk-related inputs to stress testing provided by first-line teams, or new product or marketing initiatives proposed by Product. - Risk Appetite: Oversee and recommend the frameworks for assessing and measuring our financial risk appetite, lead the financial risk appetite approval process by senior leadership and the board, and lead the development and monitoring of the risk appetite metrics. - Policy: Lead governance for financial risk policies including credit policy, across product portfolios, monitor for behavior trends and shifts, and use monitoring results to recommend and implement immediate changes, such as tightening credit limits. - Model Risk Management: Leads second line oversight of models used in decisions impacting financial risk. FINANCIAL RISK STRATEGY & ANALYTICS - Forecasting & Provisioning: Oversee short- and long-term delinquency and loss forecasting. Lead the calculation of Expected Credit Loss (ECL), stress testing, and provisioning in strict accordance with IFRS 9 standards. - Market & Liquidity Risk: Collaborate with Finance and Treasury teams in the development and execution of forecasting frameworks for market and liquidity risk. Establish monitoring and reporting for Financial Risks. - Stress Testing: Lead the stress testing process for financial risk, including the