An industry leading Crypto Currency Trading and Banking firm is looking to hire a Risk Associate to report directly to the CRO. The firm is in growth mode as last year they raised 55 million in series C funding and their revenues have increased more than tenfold going from zero to 1 billion AUM. They work across their three business lines including Crypto exchange, Trading for institutional clients/proprietary trading and are going to be the first regulated bank for digital assets as the charter got approved in September of this year.
Right now, they are launching full scale growth across their entire company, so this role would be the first fully remote risk associate hire to the team where you would report directly up to the CRO to help build the team to the full scale and get exposure to all three lines of the business as you build out the risk function.
Responsibilities would Include:
ยท Work with various teams across the business (Credit, Trading, Operations, Analytics, Sales, etc.)
ยท Develop new and improve existing analytics and quantitative models for measuring risk
ยท Monitor, identify, and escalate risk issues for the trading and lending books
ยท Define and implement risk metrics risk measurement and reporting
ยท Monitor and measure the effectiveness of the risk framework; recommend changes as required
Requirements:
ยท 5+ years of demonstrated experience in risk management/trading/ops in financial services
ยท Crypto, or algo experience required
ยท An understanding of derivatives and options and experience in developing and managing quantitative risk measurement models, designing, and interpreting stress testing analyses.
ยท Good communications skills and a team player
