Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance

Company Description IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service.

Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #Make Your Moment  so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description We are hiring a Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance for our Trust and Intelligence organization a strategic leadership role accountable for establishing governance frameworks, managing enterprise risk, and ensuring regulatory and compliance adherence across the company. You will define how we operate responsibly and compliantly while enabling business growth, and you will lead a growing team across compliance, policy, audit, and emerging technology governance.

This includes establishing governance frameworks for agentic AI systems ensuring responsible development, security, transparency and regulatory compliance as autonomous agents become core to our product strategy. Role overview As Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance, you own the governance, risk and compliance framework across the entire organization. You are accountable for ensuring that Product and Technology, Finance, Operations, Customer Success and all business functions operate in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, contractual obligations, industry standards and internal policies.

You serve as the central point of accountability for compliance risk, regulatory relationships, audit management, risk governance, policy frameworks, and board-level reporting. This includes establishing governance frameworks for emerging technologies, particularly agentic AI systems, to ensure responsible development, security, transparency, auditability, and regulatory adherence. Your mandate is to transform compliance from a reactive, audit-driven function into a proactive, integrated capability that embeds compliance into business processes, enables informed risk-taking, and positions governance as a strategic enabler rather than a constraint.

You will work closely with Product and Technology, Finance, Security Operations, Observability, AI/ML teams, Legal,…