Risk Management Officer Job Description
About Us
We are a rapidly growing cryptocurrency derivatives exchange with over 70 million registered users. Our platform offers a professional environment for crypto traders to find an ultra-fast matching engine, excellent customer service, and multilingual community support.
We provide innovative online spot and derivatives trading services, mining and staking products, as well as API support, to retail and institutional clients around the world.
Our core values define us: we listen, care, and improve to create a faster, fairer, and more humane trading environment for our users.
We have designed our platform from the ground-up using best-in-class infrastructure to provide our users with the industry's safest, fastest, fairest, and most transparent trading experience.
Built on customer-centric values, we endeavour to provide a professional, 24/7 multi-language customer support to help in a timely manner.
As of today, we are one of the most trusted, reliable, and transparent cryptocurrency derivatives platforms in the space.
Key Responsibilities:
* Implement and maintain a comprehensive risk management framework covering credit, market, liquidity, operational, and technology risks.
* Conduct prudential and capital risk assessments, including stress testing, scenario analysis, and capital adequacy evaluations.
* Prepare and support regulatory disclosures required for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and financial institutions.
* Oversee Margin-Account Operations, including policy development governing margin lending and virtual asset collateral, setting and reviewing maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratios and haircut levels, monitoring collateral valuation, capital add-ons, and counterparty exposures, ensuring compliance with client/institution limits and capital requirements, net-worth monitoring.
* Review and monitor risk indicators across business functions, escalating material breaches or deviations to senior management and the Board.
* Maintain independence from commercial and trading lines while ensuring collaboration with Compliance, Finance, and Operations.
* Liaise with internal and external auditors, regulators, and governance committees on risk management and capital matters.
* Support a risk-aware culture through training, communication, and continuous improvement of risk methodologies.
Requirements:
* Senior-level experience in financial or prudential risk management, preferably within financial institutions, fintechs, or crypto/virtual asset firms.
* Demonstrated independence from commercial functions and ability to operate as a second-line or independent control function.
* Strong knowledge of Central Bank of Brazil risk management regulations, capital adequacy standards, and VASP disclosure requirements.
* Expertise in market and liquidity risk frameworks, stress testing, and margin-account operations involving virtual assets.
* Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Risk Management, or related field; postgraduate qualification preferred.
* Strong quantitative, analytical, and communication skills; fluency in Portuguese and English.
* Fit and proper standards with no disqualifying factors, including not to have been declared bankrupt or insolvent, unblemished reputation, knowledge of the line of business, the services to be provided and the crypto segment, as well as crypto market dynamics and the risks associated with those activities, technical capability, compatible with the functions to be exercised.