Associate, Financial Risk

About This Role

Join the Financial Risk department as an Associate, focusing on credit risk management across institutional and trading businesses at a leading crypto and Web3 platform. This role involves contributing to credit underwriting, exposure monitoring, and risk reporting, strengthening the overall financial risk framework.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary analyst and day-to-day owner for institutional counterparty credit risk across trading and financing activities
• Perform credit underwriting for institutional clients and partners, including financial analysis, liquidity assessment, and limit setting
• Monitor counterparty exposures, margin utilization, and settlement risk, escalating issues as needed
• Maintain and enhance the credit risk database, limit records, and documentation to ensure accuracy and audit readiness
• Partner with OTC Trading, Treasury, Product, and Finance to assess credit exposure, evaluate mitigants, and support deal structuring
• Develop and automate credit exposure reporting and limit monitoring tools using SQL and internal systems
• Document and enhance credit procedures, workflows, and governance controls to support consistency and scalability
• Contribute to the design and implementation of firmwide counterparty risk frameworks, including margin, collateral, and loss mitigation
• Support periodic portfolio reviews, stress testing, and risk reporting to senior management
• Coordinate with Legal and Compliance on documentation, counterparty terms, and credit policy adherence

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field
• 2–4 years’ experience in credit analysis or credit risk at a leading financial institution
• Strong understanding of financial statements, ratios, and cash flow analysis
• Excellent attention to detail, execution discipline, and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative and proactive approach
• Familiarity with SQL for data retrieval, analysis, and reporting

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field
• 2–4 years’ experience in credit analysis or credit risk at a leading financial institution

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with digital asset markets, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized finance (DeFi)
• Formal credit training (e.g., completion of a bank or asset manager credit program)
• Progress toward Charter Financial Analyst (CFA) or similar designation
• Experience or exposure to trading, derivatives, or collateralized lending
• Personal or professional experience in crypto / DeFi markets
• Knowledge of Python for analytics and process automation

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits