Group Chief Risk Officer

Industry: Multi-Asset Digital Trading Platform, Role Type: Full-time, Executive (C-Level), Location: Dubai (primary), with oversight of India, Cyprus, Poland, Mauritius, and remote global teams. Reports to: Group CEO/Founder.

The Group Chief Risk Officer is accountable for building a zero-tolerance, risk-controlled trading and platform ecosystem across all business verticals spanning digital assets, foreign exchange, contracts for difference, and equities.

The CRO owns every component of enterprise risk, trading risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, regulatory risk, and market abuse prevention across:

• Institutional and High-Net-Worth client flows
• Retail user flows
• Foreign Exchange, Contracts for Difference, and Equities trading
• Cryptocurrency spot, perpetual futures, margin, and copy trading
• Treasury, liquidity, hedging, and bridge flows
• Market-making counterparties and internal inventory
• Multi-regulator environments (Dubai VARA, Mauritius FSC, Poland VASP, FIU India, Cyprus, etc.)

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Risk Framework (Group-Wide)
2. Build the Group Risk Framework covering market, liquidity, operational, cyber, compliance, technology, and credit risk
3. Establish three-lines-of-defence architecture across all trading platforms, OTC, treasury, and institutional desks
4. Define risk appetite, limits, capital buffers, stress tests, and escalation protocols
5. Trading Risk & Market Surveillance

Implement real-time risk engines for:

• Foreign exchange, CFDs, and equities
• Cryptocurrency spot and perpetual futures
• Margin lending and leverage controls
• Copy trading risk controls (leader risk scoring, follower allocation limits)

Build surveillance systems for:

• Price manipulation
• Wash trading
• Abusive order flow
• Latency abuse
• Insider activity

Create risk halts, kill switches, automatic deleveraging rules, and liquidation parameters.
3. Liquidity, Treasury & Counterparty Risk

- Oversee treasury operations for all fiat and digital asset flows
- Set counterparty onboarding criteria for liquidity providers, market makers, brokers, and custodians
- Define liquidity stress rules, intraday funding controls, and internal net-off logic
4. Digital Asset Custody Risk & Governance

Take full ownership of risk governance within the digital asset custody ecosystem, including:

• Oversight of policy engine rules, transaction signing policies, routing logic, and approval thresholds
• Designing MPC-based workflow controls for withdrawals, deposits, internal transfers, and treasury movements
• Implementing segregation of wallets for retail clients, institutional clients, operational hot wallets, treasury cold wallets, and market-making/hedging wallets
• Continuous monitoring of transaction logs, risk alerts, and anomaly detection
• Ensuring no single point of failure exists in signing, approvals, or emergency access
• Periodic review of custody configurations to match changing regulatory obligations across all jurisdictions
• Integrating custody systems with internal risk dashboards for exposure tracking, counterparty monitoring, and liquidity risk
• Approving new workspace setups, vaults, and asset enablement requests
• Conducting quarterly access control, permissions, and role audits across all internal teams
• Designing emergency protocols for key recovery, platform downtime, transaction halts, and wallet compromise scenarios
• Owning the end-to-end digital asset custody risk framework across retail, institutional, OTC, and treasury operations
• Product Risk Governance

No product goes live without the CRO s sign-off.

This includes:

• Perpetual futures parameters
• Margin tiers
• Copy-trading frameworks
• New tokens and new CFD assets
• Staking, earn, or structured products
• High-frequency or high-leverage products
• Regulatory & Jurisdictional Risk
• Ensure global alignment across Dubai VARA, Mauritius FSC, Poland VASP, FIU India, Cyprus, and any other jurisdictions
• Maintain documentation, audit trails, incident reporting, and risk capital assessment
• Engage with regulators directly when required
• Operational Risk & Business Continuity
• Build Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) for all markets
• Create incident-response playbooks across liquidity, pricing, technology, and compliance
• Ensure vendor risk management, infrastructure risk scoring, and data protection controls
• Team Building & Leadership

Build a global risk function including:

• Market Risk
• Liquidity & Treasury Risk
• Operational Risk
• Regulatory & Compliance Risk
• Technology & Cyber Risk

APPLY ONLY IF YOU HAVE:

• 15-20+ years of senior executive experience in enterprise risk management for multi-asset trading platforms.
• Direct leadership building risk engines, frameworks, and global teams across FX, CFDs, equities, cryptocurrency spot, perpetual futures, and copy-trading environments.
• Proven track record operating at board and regulatory level across multiple jurisdictions.
• Deep technical competence in quantitative risk, real-time surveillance systems, and digital asset custody frameworks.
• Experience managing institutional, HNWI, and retail trading flows simultaneously.

DO NOT APPLY IF:

• You have only worked in single-asset or single-jurisdiction environments
• Your risk experience is limited to traditional banking without trading platform exposure
• You lack senior leadership in risk functions at global trading platforms, foreign exchange brokers, Contracts for Difference platforms, banks, or cryptocurrency exchanges.