Senior Risk Analyst, Digital Assets & Custody

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) in Jersey City is seeking a Custody and Digital Assets Risk Analyst to strengthen risk governance across traditional and digital asset servicing. The role requires coordinating with operations, technology, and control functions to identify and mitigate risk in evolving products and processes.

The successful candidate will assess regulatory guidance from agencies like SEC and OCC, develop monitoring models, and communicate risk insights clearly to senior leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Risk Management, Business, or equivalent work experience.
• 3–7 years of experience in operational custody servicing, risk management, digital assets, or related disciplines.
• Strong understanding of traditional and digital asset servicing frameworks, including blockchain technologies, cryptocurrency ecosystems, tokenized security practices and digital asset custody models.
• Familiarity with risk analysis and trending on workflow events and control evaluation.
• Familiarity with complex asset structures and practices.
• Experience in assessing and defining risks associated with change management programs and evolving technology.
• Experience evaluating operational controls and risk frameworks within financial institutions.
• Knowledge of risk management principles and frameworks including RCSA, control testing and incident management practices.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex technical and operational concepts into clear risk narratives for business and senior leadership audiences.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancements of risk governance frameworks for traditional and digital asset servicing activities.
• Partner with business operations, technology, and other control functions to evaluate new products, process changes, and strategic initiatives ensuring appropriate risk identification and control designs are factored.
• Coordinate regulatory guidance for risk framework implementation from organizations such as SEC, NYDFS, FINRA and OCC.
• Work with and implement effective models of continuous monitoring and self-assessment.
• Review incident management practices and corrective actions with internal teams, and escalating matters to senior management as needed.
• Work with business and technology leads to evaluate change management needs of evolving technology to the control environment.
• Ensuring reporting to management is clear, concise and timely.
• Promote a culture of risk awareness, transparency and escalation across the engaged lines of business.
• Identify, assess and escalate trends, control weaknesses and support the development of sustainable solutions for the management of risk in the business.
• Assess industry or market trends on the overall design and effectiveness of the business line controls.
• Develop and support training initiatives for InServ staff to promote risk awareness, risk culture and understanding of fundamental control principles.

Skills

Analytical skills

Investigative skills

Problem-solving

Written and verbal communication

Risk management knowledge

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Risk Management/Business

Job description

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) in Jersey City is seeking a Custody and Digital Assets Risk Analyst to strengthen risk governance across traditional and digital asset servicing. The role requires coordinating with operations, technology, and control functions to identify and mitigate risk in evolving products and processes.

The successful candidate will assess regulatory guidance from agencies like SEC and OCC, develop monitoring models, and communicate risk insights clearly to senior leadership