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Why SoftwareOne?

SoftwareOne is a global software and cloud solutions provider and distributor, powered by around 12,000 people across more than 70 countries. But what really makes us SoftwareOne is our people: curious minds, different perspectives, and talented teams working together to solve real challenges and create meaningful impact. Here, you'll have the opportunity to grow, explore new possibilities, and build a career that's uniquely yours, while helping shape what's next in technology.

The role

• Interested in building a greenfield, modern and forward-looking risk function where data, technology, and independent insight inform strategic decision-making?
• Looking for a role with meaningful influence across executive leadership, the Board, and the wider business?

Practical Information

Location: Europe | Reports to: Global Head of Internal Audit, with direct access to the Audit Committee and Executive Board | Team: Group Risk Function of 3 FTE initially, will grow to 6 FTE | Language requirements: Fluent English, written and verbal | Learn more: softwareone.com

The Role

We are looking to appoint a Chief Risk Officer to lead SoftwareOne's second-line Group Risk function and further develop our enterprise-wide approach to risk management. This is a newly established leadership role with a broad global mandate. You will bring an independent, enterprise-wide perspective on risk, ensuring that risk insight is embedded in strategic and commercial decision-making and supports SoftwareOne as the business continues to evolve. A central part of the role is to shape the next stage of SoftwareOne's risk maturity, building a forward-looking, data-led and technology-enabled function that combines effective governance with practical business partnership and strengthens risk ownership across the organization. You will work closely with executive leadership and the Audit Committee, while collaborating across Finance, Legal, Compliance, Information Security, Data Protection, and Internal Audit. This is a hands-on, high-energy role for a leader who wants to be judged on measurable impact: you will personally shape the models, challenge the numbers, and tell the risk story to the Board.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously evolve SoftwareOne's enterprise risk management framework, risk appetite, tolerances and taxonomy, maintaining a consolidated view of strategic, operational, financial, technology, regulatory and emerging risks
• Provide independent oversight and constructive challenge across the Group, monitoring risk exposure against appetite and ensuring timely escalation of material risks and breaches to executive and Board-level stakeholders
• Strengthen forward-looking risk management through quantitative risk assessment (including financial quantification of principal risks and loss ranges, e.g., Monte Carlo simulation), scenario analysis, stress testing, key risk indicators and horizon scanning, bringing risk insight into strategic decisions, major transformations and significant commercial initiatives
• Oversee the Group's ICFR program end-to-end, including reporting on overall ICFR effectiveness to the Executive Board and Audit Committee, and provide second-line oversight of internal control and financial compliance frameworks, working closely with Finance and other control functions
• Develop and mature SoftwareOne's business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience capability, while actively applying risk technology, analytics, automation, and AI to improve risk insight and decision-making
• Lead and develop the Group Risk function and establish effective risk governance, including the Management Risk Committee, executive and Audit Committee reporting, and collaboration across key business functions

What we need to see from you

• Significant senior leadership experience in enterprise risk management, including leading a second-line risk function within a complex multinational or similarly governed organization
• A proven track record of designing, building, or significantly maturing ERM frameworks, risk appetite, governance, and executive and Board-level risk reporting, with specific, quantified examples of impact delivered
• Strong quantitative and analytical risk capabilities, with hands-on experience in risk modelling, scenario analysis, stress testing, key risk indicators, and data-led decision support
• Strong knowledge of internal control and financial compliance frameworks, including hands-on experience building, overseeing, or assessing ICFR, SOX, or equivalent programs
• Sound independent judgement and credibility when engaging and constructively challenging senior executives, Audit or Risk Committees, and Boards, combined with a pragmatic and commercially minded approach to risk
• An energetic, hands-on and technology-forward approach, with a bias for action and the ability to personally build risk models, drive new capabilities, and apply GRC technology, analytics, automation, and AI to strengthen risk management and decision-making
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex quantitative, operational, and financial risks into clear, compelling narratives for senior audiences

What's On Offer

• The opportunity to shape and mature SoftwareOne's Group Risk function with a mandate covering ERM, risk appetite, financial control oversight, resilience, risk data, and reporting
• Direct engagement with the Executive Board and Audit Committee, with the independence to provide objective challenge and escalate material risks where required
• The opportunity to develop a more quantitative and forward-looking approach to risk, incorporating scenario modelling, continuous monitoring, analytics, and risk-sensing capabilities
• Influence across strategic decisions including M&A and integration, major transformation, new products and markets, large deals, and technology and AI adoption
• The mandate to advance SoftwareOne's risk technology environment, including an integrated risk platform, automated KRI feeds, dashboards, continuous monitoring, and responsible use of AI
• The opportunity to build and develop a multidisciplinary Group Risk team spanning enterprise risk, financial compliance, risk data and reporting, with business continuity and resilience capability planned as the function develops to be added as the functions develops, subject to confirmation

Job Function

Finance

Accommodations

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