Head of Risk
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Head of Risk building firm-wide quantitative risk systems for Keyrock’s digital-asset trading and capital-markets businesses. Overseeing market, credit, liquidity and crypto-native risks.
Responsibilities:
- Own and develop the Firm’s risk function end-to-end
- Design, implement and enforce 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
- Oversee risk across trading, treasury and investments, including CeFi and DeFi exposures
- Define risk appetite and implement advanced risk metrics
- Develop and maintain a quantitative risk framework covering market, credit, liquidity and systemic risk modelling
- Implement the Firm-wide risk management system, including data architecture, risk aggregation, real-time monitoring and reporting infrastructure
- Build an integrated risk view across centralized and decentralized venues
- Define and implement VaR, Expected Shortfall, stress scenarios, liquidity-adjusted risk and concentration risk metrics
- Translate traditional financial risk methodologies into crypto-native environments
- Report to the COO in a quantitative risk management system-building role
Requirements:
- Strong quantitative risk expertise
- Ability to apply rigorous methodologies to complex, real-time markets across traditional finance and digital assets
- Strong foundation in quantitative risk management, including hands-on experience with market risk, credit risk and liquidity risk modelling
- Experience with tail risk estimation, scenario analysis, stress testing frameworks and dependence modelling across asset classes
- Proven experience designing or co-designing firm-wide risk systems
- Experience working closely with technology and operations to translate risk requirements into scalable infrastructure
- Experience at the intersection of traditional financial markets and digital assets, including CeFi and/or DeFi
- Understanding of exchange/custodian risk, smart contract risk, protocol risk, funding/basis dynamics and collateral management
- Strong drive and proactivity to continuously strengthen risk management
- Crypto enthusiasm, commercial mindset, proactive ownership and pragmatic flexibility
Benefits:
- A competitive salary and global benefit package
- Annual Team Retreats: a yearly offsite dedicated to strategy, celebration of our wins and fun team activities
- Autonomy in your time management thanks to semi-flexible working hours
- Fast-paced, highly intellectually stimulating working environment
- The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence
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