Director of Risk Management
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RootstockLabsBitcoin capital markets
100% Remote Work from Europe & Latin AmericaFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years in risk management at asset managers, funds, banks, trading firms or digital asset businesses, including several years leading a risk function.
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLRRisk Management
Requirements
- Hold a postgraduate degree in Finance, Computer Science or Mathematical Finance.
- Have a professional qualification in finance or risk, such as CFA, FRM, PRM or equivalent.
- Bring 10+ years of risk management experience at asset managers, funds, banks, trading firms or digital asset businesses.
- Have several years of experience leading a risk function.
- Bring capital, asset and risk management experience across BTC, digital assets and traditional finance, including DeFi protocol risk.
- Have financial modelling and risk analysis skills, including stress testing, scenario analysis and VaR.
- Have hands-on experience with Python, R or SQL.
- Have experience designing operational risk controls across the trade lifecycle, custody and treasury for OTC, bilateral and exchange-traded activity.
- Have experience reviewing and negotiating risk terms in fund, OTC and bilateral documents.
- Have experience working within fund regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Have proven experience leading high-performing teams and explaining complex risk to boards, investors and regulators.
Responsibilities
- Design and own the risk framework, including risk appetite, exposure and leverage limits, liquidity buckets, collateral haircuts, margin and drawdown triggers, and escalation procedures.
- Take risk policies and limits through board approval, and report regularly to the board and investment committee.
- Provide independent risk sign-off on new strategies, products, venues and counterparties before launch.
- Build models and analytics to measure market, credit, counterparty, liquidity and protocol risk, including VaR, scenario analysis and stress testing.
- Stress-test the portfolio against BTC price shocks, liquidity crises, venue or counterparty failure, depeg events, protocol exploits and liquidation cascades.
- Model complex transactions, including secured lending, repo, basis and derivatives, and structured products.
- Monitor positions and exposures daily, flagging when outcomes drift from limits or assumptions.
- Lead counterparty, venue and protocol due diligence; set and monitor counterparty limits, collateral eligibility and margin terms.
- Review and negotiate risk terms in fund, OTC and bilateral documents with the Fund Asset Manager and legal counsel.
- Design operational risk controls and work with internal teams and external partners on product delivery, regulatory obligations, audits and reporting.
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