Senior Risk and Compliance Manager

Stake is looking for a Senior Risk and Compliance Manager to join our expanding Legal, Risk and Compliance team, at our CBD office location, within a flexible hybrid working model!

We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company. Today we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.

At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do. Just like our customers, we’re driven by ambition. Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in. Though we’re spread around the world, we’re a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone.

Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way.

About this role

At Stake, Risk is embedded in how we build. As a product and engineering-led business, we move fast, solve complex problems, and operate in a highly regulated environment where strong risk management enables innovation rather than slowing it down.

Joining the Risk team means partnering directly with Product, Engineering and Operations leaders to shape how the business scales. You’ll work on meaningful, high-impact challenges across trading, operational resilience, fraud prevention, customer experience, and regulatory change — with the opportunity to influence decisions from strategy through to execution.

The Senior Risk and Compliance Manager at Stake is a senior member of the Legal, Risk and Compliance (LRC) team, responsible for embedding and scaling Stake’s risk and compliance operating model, ensuring frameworks translate into effective, evidenced practice.

This role goes beyond traditional compliance oversight and plays a critical part in driving customer operations, enhancing trading experiences, and strengthening Stake’s risk framework. You will partner closely with Customer Success, Operations, Product, and Marketing teams to manage risk in real time, respond to incidents and complaints, and drive continuous uplift across the business.

Further responsibilities include:

• Build and embed enterprise-wide risk and compliance frameworks, including RCSA programs, control libraries, assurance testing, and clear ownership/accountability standards
• Lead implementation and optimisation of GRC tooling, improving risk data quality, reporting automation, and maintaining a centralised source of truth for risks, controls, incidents, and actions
• Establish and manage incident, issue, and operational resilience frameworks, including crisis readiness, remediation tracking, contingency planning, and resilience testing
• Oversee product, trading, and technology risk management by driving formal risk assessment, approval, and governance processes for new products and material business changes
• Strengthen fraud, scam prevention, AML, and financial crime controls through monitoring, policy uplift, training, and cross-functional risk awareness initiatives
• Ensure ongoing regulatory compliance and audit readiness, including AFSL obligations, regulatory reporting, control alignment, compliance monitoring, and stakeholder engagement
• Provide practical, commercially focused risk and compliance advisory support across the business, including escalations, complaints handling, customer communications, and operational guidance

A bit about you

• Strong experience in a trading broker, financial markets, or fintech environment (essential)
• 8–12+ years’ experience, including roles in fast-paced or scaling environments
• Experience implementing risk/compliance tooling or GRC systems and scaling frameworks in high-growth environments
• Experience designing and executing control testing and assurance programs
• Strong ability to work with incomplete data and improve reporting quality and governance.
• Experience managing incidents, outages or crisis events and improving operational resilience
• Deep understanding of financial products, trading platforms, and customer risk in a brokerage context
• Proven experience in both risk and compliance roles, ideally in fast-paced or high-growth environments
• Experience handling complaints (IDR/EDR/AFCA) and regulatory interactions
• Ability to balance regulatory rigor with commercial pragmatism
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working cross-functionally
• Hands-on approach with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels

At Stake, we’re more interested in your attitude than your resume. If you believe this is a role you want to jump into, please apply and let us know why in your cover letter!

Benefits of working at Stake

You’ll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks.

Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under our Grow with Stake program. They include:

• Career relevant development and training with professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Sonder - healthcare, safety support and EAP for you and your immediate family
• Additional leave types (Swap days, Bear Days, TOIL, Compassionate, Sorry Business)
• Employee Share Options scheme for senior leaders
• Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
• Recognition awards and team celebrations
• Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus

Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We’re proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We’re also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women.

It all comes together to explain why Stake placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand.

So what happens next?

Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and you'll hear from us either way. We’re committed to responding to every applicant. If we think you’d be a good addition to our team, we’ll give you a call and from there, you'll cruise through our recruitment process.

To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.