Clearing Risk Analyst

Coinbase; Helena (MT); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Clearing Risk Analyst to join our Clearing Risk team and help build Coinbase's clearing business, including prediction markets. This role focuses on how the clearinghouse identifies, measures, and manages risk across clearing-member positions, margin methodologies, and settlement processes.

You’ll own defined risk analysis projects from investigation through recommendation, working closely with the DCO risk lead and partnering with Product, Operations, and Finance to turn

Qualifications

• 1 to 3 years in market risk or related field at a financial institution.
• Knowledge of derivatives products and margin models.
• Familiarity with stress testing and backtesting in risk.
• Ability to structure a work plan from an open-ended question.
• Judgment on escalation and clear communication of limits.
• Comfort with spreadsheets and data; verify calculations with evidence.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Analyze clearing-member positions, collateral, and settlement obligations.
• Contribute to margin methodology development and review.
• Assess risks from new products and market events.
• Lead defined risk analysis projects from investigation to recommendation.
• Build and refine risk reporting and recurring monitoring.
• Partner with Product, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Compliance to evaluate risk.
• Prepare concise risk analyses and management materials.

Skills

Derivatives clearing

Margin models

Risk reporting

Data analysis

Generative AI awareness

Tools

Spreadsheets

Job description

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We're hiring a Clearing Risk Analyst to join our Clearing Risk team and help build Coinbase's clearing business, including prediction markets. This team is responsible for how the clearinghouse identifies, measures, and manages risk across clearing-member positions, margin methodologies, and settlement processes.

You’ll own defined risk analysis projects from investigation through recommendation, working closely with the DCO risk lead and partnering with Product, Operations, and Finance to turn analysis into practical risk decisions that shape a growing business.

What you'll do:

• Analyze clearing-member positions, collateral, settlement obligations, and concentrations, investigating meaningful changes and exceptions and recommending follow-up actions.

• Contribute to margin methodology development and review by analyzing collateral coverage, stress scenarios, and backtesting results, and pressure-testing the assumptions behind them.

• Assess risks arising from new products, business changes, and market events by identifying potential failure scenarios and developing recommendations for the DCO risk

• lead.

• Build and refine risk reporting and recurring monitoring by validating figures against source records, defining clear metrics, distinguishing missing or stale data from genuine absence of exposure, and simplifying workflows to improve efficiency.

• Partner with Product, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Compliance to evaluate how funding, settlement, and processing failures create financial risk across the trade lifecycle, and help draft and maintain related risk procedures and control documentation.

• Prepare concise risk analyses, incident reviews, and management materials that clearly separate confirmed facts, assumptions, open questions, and recommendations.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 1 to 3 years of experience in market risk, counterparty risk, derivatives clearing, or trading operations at a major financial institution, exchange, or clearinghouse.

• Working knowledge of derivatives products and margin models, including how trades create positions, funding needs, and settlement obligations, and how initial and variation margin protect against counterparty exposure.

• Familiarity with clearing risk concepts such as stress and backtesting, collateral management, or settlement exception analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to take an open-ended risk question, structure a work plan, source the right data, and deliver a considered recommendation with minimal direction.

• Sound judgment on escalation: You know when an issue requires deeper investigation versus immediate action, and you communicate your limitations clearly.

• Comfortable working with spreadsheets and data: you check calculations, investigate inconsistencies, and clearly communicate conclusions traceable to evidence.

• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to validate, deliver business-ready outputs, and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$95,030—$111,800 USD

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