Operational Risk Lead — Fintech & Crypto

Precision Labs; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Insurance

Vision & Dental Insurance (U.S. only)

Chance to earn equity

Maternity & Paternity leave (after 6)

WeWork All Access Membership

WFH Yearly Stipend

L&D Yearly Stipend (after 6 months)

Job summary

zerohash is seeking an experienced Operational Risk Manager to build the framework from the ground up, including loss event taxonomy, RCSA, and incident lifecycle integration with the Engineering organization. You will own the loss event database and drive remediation of material failures, reporting to the Head of Risk with access to the CRO and Risk Committee.

You will quantify operational scenarios using FAIR or equivalent methods, run annual control tests, and champion a rigorous risk program

Qualifications

• 5+ years in operational risk, including 2+ years in a dedicated OpRisk role at a regulated financial institution or a regulated fintech, payments or crypto firm.
• You've built or substantially owned an RCSA methodology, not just participated in one, and produced results for a risk committee or board.
• A specific story of connecting a pattern across incidents that were treated as isolated, and driving a structural fix against resistance.
• Experience working with Engineering or Technology teams on incidents, postmortems or technology risk. You can read a technical incident writeup without being an engineer.
• Program-level loss event management experience: taxonomy and database design, and root cause analysis.
• Experience quantifying operational scenarios. FAIR is ideal; a comparable quantitative method you can translate to FAIR is fine.
• Clear writing. RCSA narratives, scenario summaries and board reports are core deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the operational risk framework: loss event taxonomy, business line ownership model, and integration with the enterprise risk program.
• Build and own the loss event database. Make sure every material failure is captured, categorized and root-caused, and that patterns across events get escalated and fixed.
• Design and run the RCSA process across all business lines. Facilitate, challenge results, and produce outputs for risk reporting.
• Run FAIR-based scenario analysis on our top operational risks: settlement failure, infrastructure outage, third-party dependency failure and payment disruption. Quantify tail outcomes and present them to the Risk Committee and board.
• Independently test key operational controls on an annual cycle and report findings to the CRO and Risk Committee.
• Be Risk's presence in the Engineering post-incident process: review post-incident reviews, challenge root causes, track remediation to completion, and escalated recurring patterns.

Skills

Operational risk

RCSA

FAIR framework

Incident management

Risk reporting

Tools

Risk management software

Job description

zerohash is seeking an experienced Operational Risk Manager to build the framework from the ground up, including loss event taxonomy, RCSA, and incident lifecycle integration with the Engineering organization. You will own the loss event database and drive remediation of material failures, reporting to the Head of Risk with access to the CRO and Risk Committee.

You will quantify operational scenarios using FAIR or equivalent methods, run annual control tests, and champion a rigorous risk program