DeFi Risk Analyst

Investment Risk Analyst Digital & Traditional Assets

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

Employment Type: Full-time

Salary: circa 150K (Euros)

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

Were 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

Risk Frameworks & Monitoring

Develop and maintain frameworks for investment, counterparty, leverage, duration, and liquidity risk

Propose and monitor risk limits; escalate 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

Asset Manager Onboarding

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