Head of Risk

Keyrock
London, Barcelona, Geneva, Amsterdam, Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Brussels, Zurich, Lisbon
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: ["Risk management","Quantitative risk","Risk modelling","Stress testing","Tail risk","Dependence modelling","Scenario analysis","System design","Cross-functional leadership","Risk appetite","Risk culture","Proactivity","Data architecture","Real-time monitoring","Risk aggregation","Crypto risk translation"]

Own and develop the firm’s risk function end-to-end, designing and enforcing a firm-wide risk framework across all activities. Co-design the risk architecture with the COO and CIO, including data architecture, real-time monitoring, and risk aggregation. Oversee cross-asset risk across trading, treasury, and investments spanning CeFi and DeFi, defining risk appetite and advanced metrics such as VaR, Expected Shortfall, and stress scenarios.

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Head of Risk

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Job Summary

Own and develop the firm’s risk function end-to-end, designing and enforcing a firm-wide risk framework across all activities. Co-design the risk architecture with the COO and CIO, including data architecture, real-time monitoring, and risk aggregation. Oversee cross-asset risk across trading, treasury, and investments spanning CeFi and DeFi, defining risk appetite and advanced metrics such as VaR, Expected Shortfall, and stress scenarios.
Location: London, Barcelona, Geneva, Amsterdam, Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Brussels, Zurich, Lisbon
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and enforce a firm-wide risk framework across all activities with direct accountability for the risk function.
  • •Co-design the firm’s risk architecture with the COO and CIO, including data architecture, risk aggregation layers, real-time monitoring, and reporting infrastructure.
  • •Oversee risk across trading (spot and derivatives), treasury, and investments, covering exposures across CeFi and DeFi.
  • •Define risk appetite and implement advanced risk metrics such as VaR, Expected Shortfall, stress scenarios, liquidity-adjusted risk, and concentration risk.
  • •Build an integrated cross-asset and cross-infrastructure risk view spanning centralized and decentralized venues, including exchange risk, counterparty risk, smart contract risk, collateral efficiency, and liquidity fragmentation.

Key Requirements

  • •Own and develop the firm’s risk function end-to-end with direct accountability for a firm-wide risk framework.
  • •Strong quantitative risk expertise across market risk, credit risk, and liquidity risk modelling, including tail risk and stress testing methodologies.
  • •Demonstrated ability to design and implement risk models and scenario frameworks, including dependence modelling across asset classes.
  • •Proven experience co-designing firm-wide risk systems and partnering with technology (CIO) and operations (COO) to translate requirements into scalable infrastructure.
  • •Experience operating at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets (CeFi/DeFi), with practical understanding of crypto-specific risks (exchange/custodian, smart contract, protocol risk, funding and collateral).
Experience:Digital assetsCapital marketsCryptocurrencyCeFiDeFiTradingRisk managementStress testing
Skills:Risk managementQuantitative riskRisk modellingStress testingTail riskDependence modellingScenario analysisSystem designCross-functional leadershipRisk appetiteRisk cultureProactivityData architectureReal-time monitoringRisk aggregationCrypto risk translation

Company Brief

Keyrock
Keyrock provides algorithmic trading, market making, OTC and asset management services for digital assets, using proprietary high-frequency trading infrastructure to supply liquidity across crypto exchanges and DeFi protocols.
Industry: Asset Management
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium
Founded: 2017
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