Risk Analyst, UK

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Join our team and be part of a company that develops and maintains a cutting-edge trading platform with a global presence across APAC, EMEA, and North America. Our goal is to provide a seamless and secure trading experience for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze real-time and historical portfolio risk, including exposure, leverage, margin utilization, concentration, and liquidation.
• Investigate large position changes or anomalies in market behavior and assess systemic risk exposure to counterparties or tokens.
• Perform scenario analysis and stress testing across various crypto market conditions.
• Provide risk input into product onboarding, listing reviews, and regular risk parameter reviews such as haircuts, margin levels, liquidation thresholds, and position limits.
• Support the development and maintenance of internal risk dashboards and analytical tools using Python and SQL.
• Collaborate with Risk Engineers and Data Teams to manage risk tools deployment, versioning, and testing using GitHub and CI pipelines.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience in market risk, preferably in crypto, fintech, derivatives trading, or digital asset exchanges.
• Strong coding skills in Python (pandas, NumPy, matplotlib, etc.) for analytics and tool development.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and managing large structured/unstructured datasets.
• Familiarity with Git/GitHub and collaborative software development workflows.
• Ability to interpret and tweak risk models (VaR, margin modeling, etc.).
• Knowledge of crypto markets and derivatives such as perpetuals, futures, options, and margin trading is a plus.
• Strong communication skills, especially in explaining technical or statistical results to cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
• Comfort with flexible hours and occasional coverage during non-standard time zones, market events, or system incidents, given the 24/7 nature of crypto markets.

Life @ Empowered

We foster a transformational and proactive working environment, encouraging employees to find innovative solutions. We support growth from within and promote a collaborative team culture. Our flexible work arrangements include hybrid or remote setups, and we offer internal mobility programs for career development. Benefits include competitive salaries, attractive leave entitlements, visa cards upon joining, and regional-specific perks. Founded in 2016, our platform serves over 80 million customers, with the vision of bringing cryptocurrency to every wallet. We prioritize security, privacy, and compliance, and are committed to diversity and inclusion. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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