Risk Management Specialist strengthening risk management frameworks and operational compliance. Collaborating with teams to identify and mitigate operational risks while supporting compliance with regulatory standards.
Responsibilities
Support the identification, assessment, and documentation, especially of non‑financial and operational risks, including ICT, third-party and business continuity risks.
Assist in running risk assessments, control testing, and issue remediation tracking
Maintain and improve our internal control framework and operational procedures
Draft clear business and technical requirements for process improvements or automation
Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations to design pragmatic, efficient, and tech‑enabled solutions
Help monitor regulatory expectations and ensure internal processes align with them
Contribute to third-party assessments, incident analysis, root‑cause identification, and corrective action plans
Participate in enhancing tooling and automations to improve risk transparency and reduce manual work
Requirements
You bring experience and a strong track record from previous roles in risk management, helping you contribute value from day one.
You naturally approach problems with structure and curiosity, diving into details and analysing situations before jumping to conclusions.
You like understanding how things work behind the scenes — how processes connect, how systems interact, and how controls keep everything running safely.
You are able to take complex regulatory or technical topics and turn them into clear, simple documentation that others can easily follow.
You enjoy working with different people and teams, building relationships and aligning everyone toward shared goals.
You constantly look for ways to make things smarter, faster, and more automated — because you believe good processes should scale.
You are genuinely curious about risk management and fintech operations, and you see every task as a learning opportunity.
You feel comfortable in fast‑moving environments, even when things are not perfectly defined, and you’re motivated by shaping clarity out of ambiguity.
You communicate confidently in both German and English, making it easy for you to work with teams across the company.
Benefits
🚀 Compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary and benefits package, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets.
💎 Make a real impact: You will play a crucial part in one of the most innovative and challenging missions in German and European FinTech, reporting directly to our Head of Risk and combining lemon.markets’ green field approach in brokerage-as-a-service with the stability and trust of market leading dwpbank group
🕑 Flexible working hours: We value focus time. Encouraging everyone to minimise fixed meetings and leverage asynchronous communication and time spent with customers.
🏢 Hybrid work setup: Ideally, you are based in Berlin, but we offer the flexibility to work from home across Germany. That being said, lemoneers work 4 days or more per month on-site in our Berlin office, spending quality time together with the team at events, offsites or over team dinners.
📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously, meaning that we make sure to constantly mentor and challenge you so that you can reach your next level and beyond.
💛 Perks & benefits: We sponsor a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts, plus 50% off on Beatvest - our partner for financial education and investing.
🏝 Workation: Work from anywhere in the EU for up to 60 days per year.
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