Risk Manager - AD Representative, RCH and RIE (Abu Dhabi Based) (Web3)

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; on-site with presence at ADGM premises as required

Company

Global blockchain and digital-asset ecosystem providing trading, finance, payments, institutional services, education, and research products.

What you will do

• Draft, maintain, and operationalise risk policies and map them to FSRA requirements across the RIE and RCH.
• Coordinate prudential reporting, regulatory submissions, information requests, remediation tracking, and regulatory responses.
• Own risk identification methodologies, KRI dashboards, risk registers, taxonomies, governance papers, and risk reporting packs.
• Build and run stress testing, reverse stress testing, liquidity and capital assessments, and quarterly stress test cycles.
• Develop margin and collateral methodologies, including haircut calibration, concentration metrics, shortfall analysis, and parameter governance.
• Operate model inventories, risk data infrastructure, exposure aggregation, limit monitoring, reconciliations, and data-quality remediation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of risk management experience in regulated financial institutions or market-infrastructure environments such as investment banking, clearing, exchanges, prime brokerage, or collateralised lending.
• Hands-on quantitative experience with stress testing, VaR or tail-risk measures, collateral haircuts, market impact, or liquidation analysis.
• Experience with exposure aggregation, reconciliation between risk and business systems, and data-quality remediation.
• Ability to prepare decision-ready governance papers, regulatory submissions, model documentation, and senior-management presentations.
• Ability to work independently on ambiguous problems and define frameworks where policies are still developing.
• Must be based in Abu Dhabi and able to attend ADGM premises as required.

Nice to have

• Experience engaging with regulators on prudential or market-conduct matters.
• Familiarity with ADGM, FSRA, CBUAE, DFSA, or MiFID rulebooks.
• CFA, FRM, or equivalent qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on digital-asset infrastructure and the future of finance.
• Global, user-focused organisation with a flat structure and autonomy.
• Fast-paced environment with challenging projects and evolving controls.
• Competitive salary, company benefits, career growth, and continuous learning opportunities.
• Remote-first work-from-home arrangements may vary depending on the nature of the role and team.