Risk Management Officer
Established in 2018, we are one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges. Our platform offers a professional environment where crypto traders can find an ultra-fast matching engine and multilingual community support.
We provide online spot and derivatives trading services to retail and institutional clients worldwide. Our core values define us: we listen, care, and improve to create a faster, fairer, and more humane trading environment for our users.
Our innovative, highly advanced platform has been designed 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 service.
As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining a comprehensive risk management framework. This includes credit, market, liquidity, operational, and technology risks.
You will conduct prudential and capital risk assessments, including stress testing, scenario analysis, and capital adequacy evaluations.
Additionally, you will prepare and support regulatory disclosures required for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and financial institutions.
You will oversee Margin-Account Operations, which includes developing policies governing margin lending and virtual asset collateral.
Setting and reviewing maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratios and haircut levels is also part of your responsibilities.
You will monitor collateral valuation, capital add-ons, and counterparty exposures.
Ensuring compliance with client/institution limits and capital requirements is essential.
Net-worth monitoring is also a key aspect of this role.
You will review and monitor risk indicators across business functions, escalating material breaches or deviations to senior management and the Board.
Maintaining independence from commercial and trading lines while ensuring collaboration with Compliance, Finance, and Operations is crucial.
Liaising with internal and external auditors, regulators, and governance committees on risk management and capital matters is also necessary.
You will support a risk-aware culture through training, communication, and continuous improvement of risk methodologies.
The ideal candidate will have at least 7 years of experience in financial or prudential risk management.
A strong knowledge of Central Bank regulations, capital adequacy standards, and VASP disclosure requirements is essential.
You should have expertise in market and liquidity risk frameworks, stress testing, and margin-account operations involving virtual assets.
A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Risk Management, or a related field is required; a postgraduate qualification is preferred.
Strong quantitative, analytical, and communication skills are necessary. Fluency in English is also required.
The candidate must meet fit and proper standards with no disqualifying factors.
This includes not having been declared bankrupt or insolvent and having an unblemished reputation.
The candidate should have knowledge of the line of business, the services to be provided, and the crypto segment.
They should also have knowledge of crypto market dynamics and the risks associated with those activities.
Finally, the candidate must have technical capability compatible with the functions to be exercised.
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