Director of Risk Management
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JobgetherDigital asset finance
GermanyFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 10 years of experience in risk management ... including several years leading or building a risk function.
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLRRisk Management
Requirements
- Hold a postgraduate degree in Finance, Computer Science, Mathematical Finance, or a related discipline.
- Have a CFA, FRM, PRM, or equivalent finance or risk management qualification.
- Bring at least 10 years of risk management experience in asset management, investment funds, banking, trading firms, or digital asset businesses.
- Have several years of experience leading or building a risk function.
- Demonstrate deep understanding of Bitcoin, digital assets, capital markets, portfolio management, traditional financial instruments, and DeFi risks.
- Bring hands-on expertise in financial modelling, value at risk, scenario analysis, stress testing, portfolio exposure analysis, and risk measurement.
- Have practical experience using Python, R, or SQL for risk models, financial data analysis, and monitoring automation.
- Have experience assessing secured lending, repo transactions, derivatives, structured products, and collateral arrangements.
- Be able to assess counterparty creditworthiness and evaluate exchanges, custodians, DeFi protocols, smart-contract vulnerabilities, bridge security, oracle dependencies, and governance risks.
- Have experience designing controls for trade execution, settlement, reconciliation, custody, treasury, and payment processes.
- Be familiar with fund documentation, ISDA/CSA agreements, lending and repo contracts, collateral and margin terms, and relevant regulatory requirements.
- Have experience setting risk appetite and limits, preparing risk reports, and presenting findings to boards, investment committees, investors, or regulators.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain risk policies covering market, credit, counterparty, liquidity, operational, and protocol risks.
- Define risk appetite, exposure limits, leverage thresholds, collateral haircuts, margin requirements, and escalation procedures.
- Present risk policies for board approval and report to the board and investment committee.
- Evaluate and independently approve investment strategies, financial products, trading venues, and counterparties.
- Build and maintain quantitative models using value at risk, scenario analysis, and stress testing.
- Monitor portfolio positions and exposures, identify limit deviations, and recommend corrective action.
- Assess counterparties, trading venues, and DeFi protocols, including smart contracts, bridges, oracles, and governance mechanisms.
- Review risk provisions in fund, ISDA, CSA, lending, repo, and collateral documentation with fund management and legal counsel.
- Design operational controls across trade execution, settlement, reconciliation, custody, and treasury operations.
- Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, administrators, auditors, and product teams on regulatory requirements, audits, and new products.
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