Chief Risk Officer

High Street Resources; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A multi-strategy digital asset hedge fund in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Chief Risk Officer to oversee risk management across trading and investment activities. This critical role involves designing a comprehensive risk framework addressing portfolio risk, model governance, and liquidity. The ideal candidate should have over 10 years in risk management with a strong background in quantitative trading. It is essential to have excellent communication skills and a proficiency in Python. This position is in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years in risk management or capital allocation.
• Extensive experience in quantitative trading environments.
• Strong track record in building risk frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce firmwide risk limits across strategies.
• Build real-time and batch risk dashboards for leadership.
• Conduct pre- and post-trade risk analysis.
• Oversee automated risk controls and auto-liquidation frameworks.
• Lead counterparty and venue risk assessments.

Skills

Risk management

Quantitative analysis

Stakeholder communication

Python

Job description

About the Opportunity We are retained by a technology-driven, multi-strategy digital asset hedge fund to appoint a Chief Risk Officer to lead firmwide risk management across all trading and investment activity. This is a deeply technical role, sitting at the intersection of portfolio risk, model governance, liquidity management, and operational resilience, with a mandate to build institutional-grade risk frameworks across a complex, automated trading environment.

Role Overview

The CRO will own the design and implementation of a holistic risk framework covering portfolio risk, model validation, liquidity, counterparty exposure, and operational risk. The role requires a strong quantitative mindset, robust governance instincts, and the ability to partner closely with trading, engineering, and executive leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and enforce firmwide risk limits across strategies and counterparties.
• Build real-time and batch risk dashboards for senior leadership.
• Conduct pre- and post-trade risk analysis, stress testing, and scenario analysis.
• Oversee automated risk controls and auto-liquidation frameworks.
• Establish and lead independent model validation across all systematic strategies.
• Review assumptions, data quality, robustness, and implementation fidelity.
• Maintain model inventory, approval workflows, and review cycles.
• Oversee liquidity, collateral, and margin management across venues.
• Optimize capital deployment and lead balance-sheet hedging analysis.
• Lead counterparty and venue risk assessments.
• Support regulatory and investor due-diligence processes.
• Partner with engineering to embed risk data pipelines and alerting systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in risk management, portfolio construction, or capital allocation.
• Strong experience in quantitative trading environments.
• Proven track record building risk frameworks from scratch.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills.
• Python or similar technical proficiency preferred.