Risk Manager Market, Counterparty & Operational Risk

MetaComp; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MetaComp is building a wealth and markets business centred on tokenized assets and market making. We are hiring a Risk Manager to strengthen the risk framework across market, counterparty and operational risk, reporting to the Chief Risk Officer.

The role will integrate AI-driven risk tooling, define risk logic and monitoring, and work with AI engineers to automate risk processes while preserving human oversight.

Qualifications

• Experience in risk management within financial industries or related fields.
• Strong understanding of market, counterparty and operational risk concepts.
• Comfort with technology and AI-enabled risk tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define market risk framework, limits and desk mandates.
• Monitor limit utilization and escalate breaches.
• Monitor counterparty exposure against limits and assess risks.
• Support operational risk processes (EWRA, audits, business continuity).
• Collaborate with AI engineers to design automated risk monitoring and reporting.

Skills

Risk management

Market risk

Counterparty risk

Operational risk

Data analysis

Communication

AI tooling

Risk framework design

Education

Degree in finance or quantitative field

Risk certifications (FRM/PRM/CFA)

Tools

Excel

AI risk tooling

Risk analytics tooling

Job description

MetaComp Pte Ltd is a leading Singapore-based digital payment solution provider, licensed and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as a Major Payment Institution, to provide Digital Payment Token Services and Cross-border Payment Transfers. Operating under a P2B2C (platform-to-business, partners-to-clients) model, MetaComp provides its clients with an integrated end-to-end suite of services, empowering them to confidently enter the digital asset market with much-needed safety, security, and compliance assurance. Together with its parent company, Metaverse Green Exchange Pte. Ltd. (a MAS-licensed CMS holder permitted to carry out, inter alia, brokerage and custody services), MetaComp introduces its suite of services through CAMP (Client Assets Management Platform) which allow businesses to develop and scale their digital asset offerings through various products and/or services such as over-the-counter transactions, fiat payments, digital asset custody and prime brokerage.

About the Role

We are building a wealth and markets business centred on the emergence of new, tokenized asset classes - including tokenized gold and tokenized stocks - alongside a more traditional financing book. The business is developing into a market maker in these instruments, providing continuous two-way pricing and supporting the orderly development of markets for tokenized assets.

We are hiring a Risk Manager to help strengthen and run the firm's risk management framework across market risk, counterparty risk and operational risk. An established governance structure is already in place - an ALCO and a Credit & Funding Allocation Committee, approved limits, defined escalation paths and clear risk ownership. As the product range broadens into tokenized instruments and derivatives, we are revamping and enhancing that framework so it keeps pace with the business. This is an opportunity to take an existing, functioning risk function and modernise it - extending limit coverage to new products, sharpening the monitoring, and upgrading the tooling behind it. The role sits independently of the trading, financing and funding desks and reports to the Chief Risk Officer.

The Group conducts its market operation, its issuance and distribution, and its principal risk-taking through separate legal entities with separate mandates and separate reporting lines. Each activity is carried on in the entity authorised for it, and offers of capital market products are made to accredited and institutional investors. The risk framework is built to respect those boundaries, and part of this role is ensuring they are consistently observed as the business grows.

A distinctive feature of the role: the firm is investing heavily in AI-driven risk tooling. You will work alongside a dedicated team of AI engineers to build and operate automated monitoring, alerting and analytics - so you will be designing how risk is measured and surveilled, not just reading the outputs.

Key Responsibilities

Market Risk

• Risk framework, limits and mandates - help define the market risk framework, including risk limits (e.g. VaR / stressed VaR, notional and position limits, stop-loss / drawdown triggers) and desk mandates for each trading and market-making line.
• Limit monitoring - monitor limit utilization on an ongoing basis, independently of the desks.
• Warnings and breaches - follow up on early warnings and elevate limit breaches per the agreed escalation protocol; track remediation to closure.
• Liquidity risk - help monitor liquidity risk, including funding-source concentration and the adequacy of liquidity buffers.

Counterparty Risk

• Exposure monitoring - monitor outstanding counterparty positions against approved limits and flag emerging concentration.
• Adverse news monitoring - monitor news and market developments that could affect a counterparty's risk profile, and update internal counterparty risk scores accordingly.
• Limits - propose and maintain updates to counterparty limits, escalating changes and breaches to the relevant committee.
• Credit analysis - perform basic credit analysis to support new transactions and new counterparty onboarding. A more thorough credit framework will be developed over time, and this role will help shape it.

Operational Risk

• EWRA - help run the Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment (EWRA) process.
• New product launches - support the new product / new business launch review protocol, assessing operational and control risks before go-live.
• Audit follow-up - track outstanding audit points to closure, following up with process owners on remediation.
• Business continuity - review and help maintain Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and related resilience arrangements.
• Other - contribute to the broader operational risk toolkit as it develops (incident tracking, control self-assessments, key risk indicators).

Risk Technology & AI

• Build with AI - work with the firm's AI engineering team to design and build automated risk monitoring, limit surveillance and exception reporting.
• Automate the monitoring - help move routine limit checks, exposure aggregation and adverse-news screening onto AI-assisted tooling, so analyst time goes to judgement rather than data collection.
• Own the logic - define the risk logic, thresholds and escalation rules the tooling encodes, and validate that its outputs are correct and explainable.
• Keep humans accountable - automated monitoring supports risk judgement, it does not replace it. Models and rules are documented, reviewed and subject to human oversight, with the risk function accountable for the outputs.

Products & Business in Scope

• Financing - a core part of current business.
• Derivatives - a growing book, with underlyings including FX and digital assets.
• Tokenized capital market products - including tokenized equities, tokenized gold and other tokenized real-world assets - across issuance, market making and principal trading, offered to accredited and institutional investors.

Each line is conducted in the Group entity authorised for that activity, and the risk framework is applied entity by entity as well as on a consolidated basis.

What We're Looking For

• Experience - prior risk management experience in the financial industry (bank, broker-dealer, asset manager, proprietary trading firm or similar) will be useful. Direct experience with digital assets or tokenized products is a plus but not required; a solid grounding in traditional market, credit and operational risk practice is the priority.
• Market risk knowledge - familiarity with market risk metrics and limit frameworks (e.g. VaR, notional/position limits, stop-loss discipline) and with liquidity risk concepts.
• Counterparty / credit risk knowledge - familiarity with exposure monitoring, counterparty scoring/rating, and basic credit analysis.
• Operational risk knowledge - familiarity with risk assessment processes (e.g. EWRA), new-product approval processes, audit/issue tracking, and business continuity planning.
• Comfort with technology and AI - interest in working closely with engineers to automate risk processes. No coding background required, but curiosity about AI tooling and the ability to specify clearly what a system should do is important.
• Builder mindset - comfortable operating in a fast-moving, growing organization, and confident enhancing established frameworks and processes as the business evolves.
• Analytical skills - strong analytical and spreadsheet skills; comfortable monitoring positions, tracking limits and preparing risk reports and papers for committees.
• Communication - clear, direct communicator, able to escalation issues to senior stakeholders and hold the line on limits and controls under commercial pressure.
• Education - degree in finance, economics, a quantitative discipline, or related field. Risk certifications (e.g. FRM, PRM, CFA) are a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• A documented market risk framework - limits and desk mandates - in place and monitored on a regular cadence, with a clear, working breach-escalation trail.
• A counterparty limit and concentration framework that is live and actively monitored, with counterparty scores kept current against news and market developments.
• The EWRA, new-product review protocol, audit tracker and BCP review cycle all running on a regular, predictable cadence.
• Routine monitoring progressively automated with the AI engineering team, freeing risk judgement for where it matters most.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where every individual feels respected, valued, and empowered to contribute. We celebrate diversity in all its forms - background, ethnicity, gender, identity, orientation, experience, and thought and believe it strengthens our culture and our work. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.