Chief Risk Officer

Roles & Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and lead the group’s enterprise risk management framework , covering financial, operational, market, credit, technology, and partner risks;
• Oversee liquidity and treasury risk management , including daily fund operations, position monitoring, reconciliation, clearing, and settlement controls;
• Design and implement transaction monitoring and anti-fraud strategies , including on-chain address screening, anomaly detection, and escalation procedures;
• Conduct counterparty and partner due diligence , ensuring robust risk assessment of banks, payment channels, custodians, and other service providers;
• Collaborate with the Head of Legal & Compliance / MLRO to align risk controls with AML / KYC / KYB, sanctions, and regulatory expectations;
• Partner with Product and Technology teams to embed risk controls into product design, enabling automation and scalability of monitoring systems;
• Lead contingency planning for stablecoin de-peg, settlement disruptions, and channel failures, including stress testing and scenario analysis;
• Provide periodic risk reports and recommendations to senior management and the Board, offering data-driven insights for strategic decisions;
• Build and scale a risk management team across treasury risk, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, and operational risk as the company grows.

Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

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Leadership

Scalability

Due Diligence

Product Design

Economics

Management Accounting

Anomaly Detection

Fraud

Banking

Prevention

Stress Testing