About this role
Risk Specialist Amsterdam Fastned is building hundreds of charging stations across nine countries, on land it leases, through contractors it does not employ, serving customers who pay at a screen by the roadside. Every one of those choices carries risk, and right now two people cover all of it. As Risk Specialist you will build the framework that keeps that manageable, lead our work on fraud, and sit in front of the Managing and Supervisory Board to say what we should be worried about. This is a role for someone who thinks risk management should make a company faster, not slower.
Your role
- As Risk Specialist, you help Fastned strengthen its risk and control framework while enabling the business to grow responsibly and at speed.
- You combine a structured, analytical approach with pragmatism: making risk management practical, accessible, and proportionate to the challenges of a fast-growing organisation.
- You will work across all stakeholders in the organisation: from Operations and Construction to Product & Engineering, and business functions such as Finance and Legal & Compliance.
- By partnering closely with teams throughout the company, you help protect revenue, support scalable and compliant growth, and embed a culture in which risks and controls are understood and owned across the business.
- What you will contribute You will play a key role in further developing and embedding risk and control awareness across Fastned.
- Together with the Sr Risk Manager, you will help ensure that risks are identified, assessed, monitored, and addressed effectively.
- It is a team of two, so you will be close to everything.
Your responsibilities include
- Define, maintain, and drive Fastned's risk management framework, including policies, control measures, risk appetite principles, and the risk roadmap.
- Lead fraud detection and investigation as a key operational risk domain, developing detection rules, managing alerts, and investigating suspe...