Head of Risk & Decisioning

About the role

We are seeking a highly analytical, commercially minded and technically fluent leader to establish and lead Olea's Risk & Decisioning function. In this role, you will lead the evolution of Olea's decision infrastructure: from traditional quantitative credit risk models and analytical tools through to AI-native decision-support systems.

What you'll do

• Governance & controls. Ensure every model, agent and decision the team produces is traceable, explainable, auditable and designed to support accountable
• Define success measures, controls and escalation pathways for each agent. Establish lifecycle standards for model and agent development
• Cross-team collaboration & value realisation
• Partner closely with business stakeholders and provide direction to Product Engineering and Platform teams to ensure decisioning capabilities are implemented
• Operate with a product lens, translating business priorities into roadmaps, adoption and measurable business outcomes

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Credit risk
• Actuarial
• CRO
• Compliance
• Machine learning
• Statistics
• Any graduate

Good to have

• FastAPI
• PostgreSQL
• TypeScript
• Docker
• SQL
• Python