The Role
The Head of Risk Management oversees and enhances the risk framework for a crypto firm, addressing financial, operational, cyber, and regulatory risks. Responsibilities include risk governance, operational risk management, and collaboration with various teams to ensure compliance and control measures.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are a leading trading platform that is ambitiously expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best, so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talented team.
About Capital Vault:
Capital Vault (CV) is a crypto infrastructure provider under the Capital.com Group umbrella, focused on delivering regulated crypto custody, spot exchange, payment processing, and wallet services.
Role Summary:
The Head of Risk Management is a senior leadership position responsible for establishing, overseeing, and continuously enhancing CV’s enterprise-wide risk framework. This includes financial, operational, cyber, and crypto-asset-specific risks. The role is critical in meeting the SCA/CySEC/FCA regulatory expectations and ensuring the company operates within its defined risk appetite across all business lines.
Key Responsibilities:
- 1. Strategic Risk Oversight:
- Design, implement, and maintain a risk management framework tailored for a regulated crypto firm.
- Identify and assess material risks across CV's business: custody, exchange, wallets, payments and staking.
- Define and update the firm’s risk appetite and tolerance thresholds in collaboration with the Board.
- 2. Risk Governance & Reporting:
- Lead the Risk Management Committee and prepare regular risk reports to the Board and regulators.
- Maintain the Risk Register and ensure timely escalation of emerging risks.
- Work closely with Compliance and Internal Audit to maintain a robust control environment.
- 3. Operational Risk:
- Develop risk scenarios.
- Monitor and respond to service disruptions and operational control failures.
- Drive implementation of internal controls and conduct Risk & Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs).
- 4. Market, Liquidity & Credit Risk:
- Assess risks linked to CV’s trading with external liquidity providers (e.g., default, slippage, settlement failure).
- Review pricing sources, aggregation logic, and back-to-back execution mechanisms.
- 5. Custody & Technology Risk:
- Evaluate risk controls around hot/cold wallet segregation, private key management (e.g., Fireblocks), and internal ledger accuracy.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to mitigate key threats such as wallet compromise, ransomware, or DDoS attacks.
- 6. Regulatory Risk:
- Monitor compliance with SCA’s risk-related requirements (e.g., capital adequacy, outsourcing, incident reporting).
- Ensure risk systems, documentation, and controls remain audit-ready and up to date.
- 7. Product Risk:
- Perform product risk assessments for new crypto offerings before go-live.
- Ensure end-user risk disclosures and internal risk control measures align with regulatory expectations.
What We’re Looking For:
- Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Risk Management, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in risk management, with at least 3 in crypto, fintech, or capital markets.
- Strong understanding of crypto-specific risks, including custody, blockchain analytics, and liquidity sourcing.
- Experience working with SCA or other financial regulators in the UAE or GCC.
- Knowledge of MiCA, SCA Cat7, and UK MLR2017 risk-related obligations is a plus.
- Preferred:
- Risk certifications such as FRM (GARP), PRM, or equivalent.
- Exposure to regulatory capital calculations and stress testing methodologies for crypto businesses.
- Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST, or other information security frameworks.
Why Join Us?
You’ll be joining a forward-looking crypto venture with the backing of an established group, working on building out compliant and secure infrastructure for digital assets in a regulated environment. The role offers influence at the highest level and a chance to shape risk culture from the ground up.
What you will get in return:
• Competitive Salary: We believe great work deserves great pay! Your skills and talents will be rewarded with a salary that makes you feel valued and motivated.
• Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about you - because your life outside of work matters just as much as your time on the clock. #LI-Hybrid
• Annual Performance Bonus: Your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed! Celebrate your achievements with a well-deserved annual bonus tied to your performance.
• Generous Time Off: Need a breather? Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work without a worry.
• Employee Referral Program: Love working here? Share the love! Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded for growing our awesome team.
• Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: From medical insurance to pension plans, we’ve got your back. Plus, location-specific benefits and perks!
• Workation Wonderland: Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply). Adventure awaits!
• Volunteer Days: Make a difference! Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community.
Be a key player at the forefront of the digital assets movement, propelling your career to new heights! Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding company that values and rewards talent, initiative, and creativity. Work alongside one of the most brilliant teams in the industry.
Applicable for Poland: Our company has an Internal Reporting Procedure. It is available from the Human Resources Department upon request [email protected]. You may report a violation referred to in the Procedure under the terms specified therein.
Top Skills
Blockchain
Cybersecurity Principles
Financial Regulatory Standards
Risk Management Frameworks
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The Company
What We Do
Capital provides software that enables founders to raise, hold, spend, and send funds all in one place. Capital has evolved its flagship fundraising tool (formerly known as Party Round) to provide founders with banking solutions that streamline their startups.
