Financial Risk

• Location: Amsterdam
• Type: Permanent
• Job #16776

Medior/Senior Financial Risk Officer
Location: Amsterdam

One of the fastest growing crypto exchange platforms in Europe is looking for a Medior/Senior Financial Risk Officer to take full ownership of the company’s market risk framework. 

Your Tasks

• Own the market-risk framework – Maintain and enhance policies, methodologies and limits (VaR, stress scenarios, liquidity adjusted exposure, concentration limits).

• Contribute across risk types – Support initiatives in liquidity risk (funding gaps, contingency planning) and credit risk (counterparty reviews, concentration risk)

• Build and run monitoring & reporting – Produce daily risk dashboards; investigate limit breaches, propose remedial action and escalate to the Risk Committee.

• Independent product review – Assess financial-risk implications of new products (e.g. new asset listings, structured staking, perpetual futures) and material changes to existing services.

• Stress testing & reverse stress testing – Develop macro-/micro-driven scenarios (flash crashes, liquidity dries-up, stable-coin de-pegs) that reflect crypto-specific behaviours; present actionable insights to senior leadership.

• Model governance & margin design – Validate and enhance models (VaR, margin, back-testing, benchmarking, sensitivity analysis), align with regulatory/industry standards, and cooperate with business-stakeholders for Model Validation.

• Link risks together – Quantify how market moves propagate into liquidity needs (margin calls, withdrawals) and credit exposures, working with Treasury and other stakeholders.

• Cryptocurrency Exchange – Review new listings and product governance, Monitor Market Makers, Liquidity Providers and retail exposures and escalate accordingly.

Your Profile

• 5+ years of risk management experience, ideally in a trading firm, crypto exchange, investment bank, fintech, or similar financial institution.

• Broad knowledge across market, liquidity, and credit risk – with the ability to connect the dots rather than focus narrowly on one area.

• Deep understanding of portfolio risk metrics (VaR & alternatives), stress testing, scenario design and margining.

• Good understanding on how an exchange operates, margin trading, lending and staking service and product knowledge.

• Proven ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, simplifying complex risk concepts into actionable insights.

• Hands-on, ownership-driven attitude; comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-uncertainty environment.

• Confident presenting to senior management and regulators; skilled in writing concise risk memos.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.