Risk Management Officer
Established in 2018, one of the fastest growing cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges has more than 70 million registered users. A professional platform where crypto traders can find an ultra-fast matching engine and excellent customer service is provided.
The exchange offers innovative online spot and derivatives trading services, mining and staking products, as well as API support, to retail and institutional clients around the world.
A fast, fair, and humane trading environment for users is created through core values that define us: listening, caring, and improving.
A highly advanced and user-friendly platform is designed from the ground-up using best-in-class infrastructure to provide a safe, fast, fair, and transparent trading experience.
* Implement and maintain a comprehensive risk management framework.
* 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.
Key Responsibilities:
Oversee Margin-Account Operations, including:
Development of policies 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.
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.
* Senior-level experience in financial or prudential risk management.
* Demonstrated independence from commercial functions.
* Strong knowledge of Central Bank regulations, capital adequacy standards, and VASP disclosure requirements.
Expertise in market and liquidity risk frameworks, stress testing, and margin-account operations involving virtual assets is required.
Fluency in Portuguese and English is necessary for the role.