Operational Risk, Senior Associate (Fintech)

Location: Remote - United States

Salary: $123,000–$141,375 annually, plus equity, bonus, and 10% annual salary.

Company

hirify.global builds blockchain infrastructure for tokenizing, custodying, trading, and settling assets for financial institutions.

What you will do

• Run Risk and Control Self-Assessments with business and engineering owners using defined severity and likelihood methodologies.
• Maintain enterprise process, risk, and control inventories and keep the risk register current.
• Manage issues by documenting control gaps, assigning owners and remediation dates, and tracking closure.
• Assess operational risk in new products, vendors, blockchains, and regulatory changes before production.
• Prepare evidence for internal and external audits and regulatory examinations, respond to examiner requests, and conduct independent control monitoring and testing.
• Report risk themes and key risk indicators to senior leadership and risk committees.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of operational risk experience at a financial services institution, financially regulated company, consultancy, or regulator that built or enforced operational risk requirements.
• Hands-on experience running Risk and Control Self-Assessments, maintaining risk registers, and rating risks with defined severity and likelihood methodologies.
• Working knowledge of OCC expectations, Basel operational risk principles, SOC 2, and third-party risk guidance.
• Experience preparing audit and regulatory examination evidence and answering examiner questions directly.
• Clear, concise writing and a record of aligning business and engineering owners on risk ratings and remediation plans.
• Comfort using AI tools for research, drafting, and analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience building independent monitoring and testing programs or process, risk, and control inventories.
• Experience working with blockchain or crypto.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work in the United States.
• Full-time employment with equity and bonus eligibility.
• Work with product, engineering, compliance, and operations teams on regulated financial infrastructure.

Hiring process

• Apply only through hirify.global.com/careers; legitimate recruiting communication comes only from @hirify.global.com email addresses.
• hirify.global never requests payment or financial information to apply, interview, or work.