Digital Asset Risk Manager

Barclays • New York, NY

3d • $100,000 - $160,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Join Barclays as an AVP - eTrading & Digital Asset Risk, supporting the risk oversight, governance, and control framework across electronic trading and digital asset activities. You will partner with Front Office, Technology, and Control Functions to identify emerging risks, assess controls, and strengthen risk management across trading products, algorithms, and new technologies. This role will leverage data analytics, automation, and technical solutions to enhance risk monitoring, reporting, and strategy. You will also provide effective challenge to senior stakeholders while helping drive scalable and innovative approaches to risk governance.

Requirements

• Experience in market risk, electronic trading risk, operational risk, risk governance, or similar second-line risk functions
• Understanding of electronic and algorithmic trading controls and risk management frameworks
• Advanced experience with Alteryx and Tableau
• Data analysis, process automation, and technical development capabilities
• Stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills, including engagement with senior leadership
• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience using SQL, Python, AI tools, or other automation technologies
• Ability to analyze complex datasets and develop risk reporting, dashboards, and management information
• Knowledge of digital assets, algorithmic trading, data governance, or associated regulatory requirements preferred

Responsibilities

• Collection and analysis of market data from various sources and ensuring risk is correctly captured, modelled and capitalised.
• Escalation of critical risk issues or breaches to Traders and senior Risk Management Leadership teams for timely action, as may be required.
• Review and provision of feedback on market risk models including change governance.
• Internal, Regulatory and Scenario stress testing for the Trading portfolio, as required.
• Steer and execution projects of market risk wide-significance e.g. FRTB, One Risk, as required.
• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc)to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Partner with Front Office, Technology, and Control Functions to identify emerging risks, assess controls, and strengthen risk management across trading products, algorithms, and new technologies.
• Leverage data analytics, automation, and technical solutions to enhance risk monitoring, reporting, and strategy.
• Provide effective challenge to senior stakeholders while helping drive scalable and innovative approaches to risk governance.

Benefits

• The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed