Controls and Governance Manager

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About the Opportunity This role focuses on strengthening OKX EU's first line of defense by collaborating with internal departments and centralized teams to drive risk management, process improvements, and ensure control performance is robust. The position is key in ensuring the company meets MFSA and ESMA regulatory requirements and to enhance the organizational maturity needed to sustain the business's growth and integrity while embedding non-financial risk management within operational processes. What You’ll Be Doing • Enhance cross-functional coordination by collaborating with second and third lines of defense (Risk Management, Compliance, and Internal Audit) to ensure alignment on control requirements, while maintaining a focus on first-line responsibilities. • Act as a central point of contact for all first-line defense risk management and control activities, coordinating between internal departments (product, risk, compliance, finance, legal) and centralized teams to ensure effective risk mitigation strategies. • Maintain Company's Risk & Control Self Assessment (RCSA) on an ongoing basis with a focus on critical processes and with designing, validating and testing of…