Assess risks arising from new products, business changes, and market events by identifying potential failure scenarios and developing recommendations for the DCO risk
lead.
Build and refine risk reporting and recurring monitoring by validating figures against source records, defining clear metrics, distinguishing missing or stale data from genuine absence of exposure, and simplifying workflows to improve efficiency.
Partner with Product, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Compliance to evaluate how funding, settlement, and processing failures create financial risk across the trade lifecycle, and help draft and maintain related risk procedures and control documentation.
Prepare concise risk analyses, incident reviews, and management materials that clearly separate confirmed facts, assumptions, open questions, and recommendations.
Required Skills and Experience
1 to 3 years of experience in market risk, counterparty risk, derivatives clearing, or trading operations at a major financial institution, exchange, or clearinghouse.
Working knowledge of derivatives products and margin models, including how trades create positions, funding needs, and settlement obligations, and how initial and variation margin protect against counterparty exposure.
Familiarity with clearing risk concepts such as stress and backtesting, collateral management, or settlement exception analysis.
Demonstrated ability to take an open-ended risk question, structure a work plan, source the right data, and deliver a considered recommendation with minimal direction.
Sound judgment on escalation: You know when an issue requires deeper investigation versus immediate action, and you communicate your limitations clearly.
Comfortable working with spreadsheets and data: you check calculations, investigate inconsistencies, and clearly communicate conclusions traceable to evidence.
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to validate, deliver business-ready outputs, and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus)
$95,030—$111,800 USD
Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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