Chief Risk Officer

Velox Clearing; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 230,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Velox Clearing LLC, a broker-dealer focused on correspondent clearing, seeks an experienced Chief Risk Officer to lead its enterprise risk-management program in the United States.

The CRO will identify, measure, monitor, and control risks from equity and options clearing, margin, liquidity, and regulatory compliance, with cross-functional collaboration across CEO, COO, Finance, Compliance, Technology, and Client Service teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of broker-dealer, clearing, market-risk, credit-risk, or related financial-services experience.
• Significant experience at a carrying or correspondent-clearing broker-dealer.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. equities and listed-options clearing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the firm’s risk-management framework, policies, limits, and escalation procedures.
• Monitor exposure from equities, listed options, margin, securities lending, and settlement activity.
• Establish and enforce risk limits for trading, margin, and concentration.
• Review daily and intraday risk reports, including margin deficiencies and unusual trading activity.
• Oversee stress testing, scenario analysis, liquidity-risk assessments, and contingency planning.
• Evaluate the financial condition and risk profile of new and existing correspondent clients.
• Participate in client onboarding and periodic reviews; recommend limits or collateral changes.
• Work with Operations and Finance to manage margin, collateral, and settlement obligations.
• Coordinate responses to market volatility, large margin calls, and settlement failures.
• Review new products, execution venues, and system changes for risk impact.
• Partner with Compliance on regulatory and trade-surveillance matters.
• Support SEC, FINRA, OCC, DTCC requirements including Rules 15c3-1 and 15c3-3.
• Establish key risk indicators and provide regular risk reports to CEO/committees.
• Participate in regulatory examinations, audits, and inquiries.
• Build and lead a strong risk-management team and promote accountability.

Skills

Broker-dealer experience

Risk management leadership

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance/economics/math

Tools

SQL

Risk analytics

Relational databases

Business-intelligence tools

Job description

Velox Clearing, a correspondent-clearing broker-dealer, is seeking an experienced Chief Risk Officer to lead the firm’s enterprise risk-management program.

The CRO will be responsible for identifying, measuring, monitoring, and controlling risks arising from the firm’s clearing of U.S. equities and listed options. The role requires significant experience with correspondent clearing, margin, market and credit risk, liquidity, securities lending, settlement exposure, and regulatory requirements.

The CRO will work closely with the CEO, COO, Finance, Compliance, Technology, and Client Service teams and will have authority to elevate material risks, impose restrictions, require additional collateral, and recommend liquidation or termination of higher-risk relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the firm’s risk-management framework, policies, limits, and escalation procedures.
• Monitor customer, correspondent, counterparty, and firm-level exposure arising from equities, listed options, margin accounts, securities lending, and settlement activity.
• Establish and enforce risk limits for trading, margin and concentration.
• Review daily and intraday risk reports, including margin deficiencies, concentrated positions, stress losses, settlement obligations, and unusual trading activity.
• Oversee stress testing, scenario analysis, liquidity-risk assessments, and contingency planning.
• Evaluate the financial condition, business model, customer base, trading strategy, operational controls, and risk profile of new and existing correspondent clients.
• Participate in client onboarding and periodic reviews and recommend appropriate limits, collateral requirements, product restrictions, or enhanced monitoring.
• Work with Operations and Finance to manage OCC, NSCC, and DTC margin, clearing-fund, collateral, and settlement obligations.
• Coordinate responses to market volatility, large margin calls, settlement failures, account deficits, and other material risk events.
• Review new products, execution venues, trading strategies, and system changes before implementation.
• Partner with Compliance on regulatory, AML, market-manipulation, and trade-surveillance matters that may create financial or reputational risk.
• Support compliance with applicable SEC, FINRA, OCC, DTCC, and exchange requirements, including SEC Rules 15c3-1 and 15c3-3.
• Establish key risk indicators and provide regular risk reports to the CEO and relevant committees.
• Participate in regulatory examinations, audits, and responses to inquiries
• Build and lead a strong risk-management team and promote a firmwide culture of accountability and prudent risk management.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of broker-dealer, clearing, market-risk, credit-risk, or related financial-services experience.
• Significant experience at a carrying or correspondent-clearing broker-dealer.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. equities and listed-options clearing.
• Experience with margin management, stress testing, concentration risk, liquidity risk, settlement exposure, and customer or correspondent credit risk.
• Working knowledge of OCC, DTC, NSCC, FINRA, SEC financial-responsibility rules, Regulation T, portfolio margin, and applicable margin requirements.
• Ability to evaluate complex options portfolios, short-option exposure, volatility risk, and liquidation risk.
• Experience reviewing introducing brokers, omnibus relationships, institutional clients, or active-trading businesses.
• Strong judgment and the ability to make timely decisions during periods of market stress.
• Excellent analytical, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate risk issues clearly to executives, regulators, clients, and technical teams.
• Clean regulatory and employment history required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with securities lending, hard-to-borrow securities, low-priced securities, foreign correspondents, or omnibus clearing relationships.
• Experience using SQL, risk analytics, relational databases, or business-intelligence tools.
• Experience developing automated risk reports, dashboards, alerts, and limit-monitoring systems.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, technology, or a related field.

Licensing

• FINRA Series 7 and Series 24 preferred or required based on assigned responsibilities.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any additional registrations required by the firm.
• On-site.
• Competitive compensation based on experience.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Life insurance and long-term disability options available.