Head of Risk

Key details

• Own and develop the Firm's risk function end-to-end, with direct accountability for the design, implementation and enforcement of a Firm-wide risk framework across all activities
• Co-design the firm's risk architecture with the COO and CIO, covering data, analytics and real-time risk aggregation
• Have full oversight of risk across trading (spot and derivatives), treasury and investments, including exposures across CeFi and DeFi environments
• Define risk appetite, implement advanced risk metrics and ensure disciplined risk-taking across the organization
• Develop and maintain a quantitative risk framework grounded in modern risk theory (e.g. market, credit, liquidity and systemic risk modelling), leveraging concepts such as tail risk, extreme value theory, dependence structures and stress testing
• Co-design and implement the Firm-wide risk management system in close collaboration with the COO and CIO, including data architecture, risk aggregation layers, real-time monitoring capabilities and reporting infrastructure across all business lines
• Build an integrated risk view across centralized and decentralized venues, covering exchange risk, counterparty risk, smart contract risk, collateral efficiency and liquidity fragmentation
• Define and implement advanced risk metrics (VaR, Expected Shortfall, stress scenarios, liquidity-adjusted risk, concentration risk) and ensure their consistent application across trading, treasury and investment activities
• Translate traditional financial risk methodologies into crypto-native environments, adapting models to account for 24/7 markets, fragmented liquidity, funding dynamics, on-chain transparency and new failure modes (e.g. oracle risk, protocol risk)
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