DeFi Risk Analyst

Location: Remote (preferred time zones: UTC to Dubai) or onsite in Berlin

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Company

A fast-growing fintech start-up is building the future of tokenized finance offering global access to institutional-grade investment products across both traditional and decentralized markets. With over 1B in total value locked (TVL) and backing from leading investors, the company is scaling its risk and analytics capabilities to support rapid growth.

Role Overview

We are hiring an Investment Risk Analyst to lead the development of a comprehensive risk function spanning crypto, CeFi, and traditional financial instruments. Youll design risk frameworks, aggregate exposures, and collaborate with engineering to build a unified risk dashboard. This is a high-impact role reporting directly to the Head of Risk, with visibility across leadership and investment teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain frameworks for investment, counterparty, leverage, duration, and liquidity risk
• Propose and monitor risk limits; escape breaches and recommend remediation
• Conduct scenario analysis and stress testing across diverse asset classes
• Analyze complex strategies including basis trades, derivatives, structured credit, and private credit

Exposure Aggregation & Communication

• Aggregate exposures across protocols, exchanges, and asset managers
• Maintain clear reporting of counterparty and strategy-level risks
• Deliver concise exposure reports to leadership and investment committees
• Ensure organization-wide visibility into risk concentrations

Infrastructure & Tooling

• Scope and manage tools for reporting, alerts, and risk flags
• Lead the buildout of a risk dashboard with engineering support
• Define key metrics, thresholds, and reporting cadence
• Comfortable with basic SQL/Python and self-solving with tools like ChatGPT
• Evaluate new managers and strategies from a risk perspective
• Monitor performance and exposures of onboarded managers

Cross-Asset Coverage

• Provide oversight across crypto (spot, perps, options), CeFi lending/margin, private credit, CLOs, commodities, and derivatives
• Integrate both on-chain and traditional financial risk frameworks

Candidate Profile

• 47 years in investment risk management, trading, or portfolio research
• Exposure to crypto markets (ideally via trading firm, market maker, or hedge fund)
• Strong grasp of market risk concepts: leverage, margin, liquidity, volatility, derivatives
• Understanding of credit and counterparty risk: limits, collateral, netting, tenor, concentration
• Familiarity with structured credit, CLOs, private credit, and commodities
• Technically literate: able to scope data needs and collaborate with engineers
• Analytical, detail-oriented, and passionate about risk
• Excellent communication skills able to produce crisp reports for leadership and governance

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