About ARQ

ARQ is one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world. Our mission is to redefine how people interact with money across borders, building the infrastructure to move value seamlessly. We’re still early in our journey, which means every person who joins shapes the future of our product, culture, and growth. If you’re excited by big challenges, global impact, and the chance to grow fast with a world-class team, ARQ is the place to do it.

The Role

You will own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of ARQ’s risk management framework in Colombia. This includes market, credit, operational, and regulatory risk, ensuring the company operates within risk appetite while enabling sustainable growth.

What you'll be doing

• Own the local risk management framework, including identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of key risks across the business

• Lead across risk areas such as credit risk, market risk and operational risk, with a focus on credit risk

• Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and global risk standards

• Develop and maintain risk policies, procedures, and controls, ensuring audit readiness at all times

• Monitor key risk indicators and produce regular risk reporting for local and global stakeholders

• Partner closely with compliance/AML, operations, product, and finance teams to embed risk controls into processes and product design