Risk Management Leader
This role involves overseeing the organization's risk management framework, ensuring comprehensive coverage of credit, market, liquidity, operational, and technology risks. The ideal candidate will have 7 years of senior-level experience in financial or prudential risk management, preferably within banks, fintechs, or crypto/virtual asset firms.
The successful applicant will lead governance and oversight of margin-account operations, including establishing risk policies for margin lending and virtual asset collateral, defining and periodically reviewing maximum LTV ratios and haircut methodologies, monitoring collateral valuation, capital add-ons, and counterparty exposures, and ensuring adherence to client and institutional exposure limits, capital buffers, and net-worth thresholds.
Responsibilities also include continuously monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs) across business functions, escalating breaches or deviations to senior management and the Board with clear remediation plans. Additionally, this role requires operating as an independent second-line function, maintaining objectivity from commercial and trading activities while collaborating closely with Compliance, Finance, Operations, and Technology.
* Must be legally residing in Brazil.
* Demonstrated independence from commercial functions and proven capability operating as a second-line or independent control function.
* Strong command of Central Bank of Brazil risk regulations, prudential rules, capital adequacy requirements, and VASP reporting obligations.
* Expertise in market and liquidity risk frameworks, stress testing, scenario modeling, and margin-account governance involving virtual assets.
* Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Risk Management, or a related field; postgraduate qualifications are strongly preferred.
* Exceptional analytical skills, strong quantitative capabilities, excellent communication, and full professional fluency in Portuguese and English.
A strong risk-aware culture is promoted by supporting ongoing training, communication, and enhancements to risk methodologies, models, and documentation.