Head of Enterprise Risk Management

Tradeweb • New York, NY

4h • $200,000 - $275,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Tradeweb is a global leader in electronic trading for rates, credit, equities, and money markets. As financial markets become increasingly interconnected, our technology enables efficient, multi-asset trading on a global scale. We serve more than 3,000 clients in more than 85 countries, including many of the world’s largest banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurers, corporations, and wealth managers.

Creative collaboration and sharp client focus have helped fuel our organic growth. We facilitated average daily trading volume (ADV) of more than $2.2 trillion over the past four fiscal quarters, topping $2.5 trillion in ADV for the first quarter of 2025.

Since our IPO in 2019, Tradeweb has completed four acquisitions and doubled our revenues – and 2024 was our 25th consecutive year of record revenues.

Tradeweb is a great place to work, recognized in 2024 by Forbes as one of America’s Best Companies (2024) and by U.S. News & World Report as one of the Best Financial Services Companies to Work For.

Tradeweb Markets LLC ("Tradeweb") is proud to be an EEO Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled/Affirmative Action Employer.

Mission: Move first and never stop. Collaborate with clients to create and build solutions that drive efficiency, connectivity, and transparency in electronic trading.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in risk management, with significant exposure across multiple risk disciplines (financial, operational, cyber, or regulatory)
• Demonstrated experience synthesizing risk intelligence across organizational silos into enterprise-level views
• Hands-on experience with quantitative risk methodologies
• Demonstrated familiarity with cyber and technology risk frameworks — including NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and DORA
• Prior experience in financial services, capital markets, or fintech strongly preferred
• Experience presenting to and engaging with senior management
• Exceptional ability to distill complexity into clear, executive-ready communication
• Experience setting team priorities, managing workloads across concurrent initiatives, and maintaining quality of output
• Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain senior risk professionals
• Strong analytical judgment; able to distinguish signal from noise across a high volume of risk inputs
• Deep understanding of risk governance structures, including Three Lines of Defense models
• Familiarity with emerging risk domains including AI/technology risk, third-party risk, and data risk
• Ability to influence without authority across senior, domain-expert stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree required

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise risk management framework, taxonomy, and methodology
• Establish enterprise-level risk appetite statements and risk -tolerance thresholds aligned with business strategy and regulatory requirements
• Drive consistent risk assessment standards and reporting protocols across domain teams, with sensitivity to the pace of product and technology change in a fintech environment
• Aggregate risk intelligence across Technology, Cyber, Data, Financial, Operational, and Regulatory risk domains into a consolidated enterprise risk picture
• Identify risk interdependencies, correlations, and concentration risks that span domain boundaries
• Maintain and evolve the enterprise risk register, ensuring material risks are accurately captured, prioritized, and tracked
• Translate complex, cross-domain risk intelligence into clear, decision-useful narratives for senior non-specialist audiences
• Lead horizon scanning for macro, geopolitical, regulatory, and technology-driven risks that may not yet be on domain team radars
• Translate external risk signals into actionable intelligence for internal stakeholders
• Support the design and delivery of enterprise risk reporting to senior management
• Serve as the primary integration point between domain risk teams, ensuring alignment and eliminating blind spots
• Partner with other risk teams to embed risk considerations into strategic planning and major initiatives
• Support the CRO in preparing materials for regulatory engagement and internal governance forums

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
• Hybrid Environment: Our employees have the flexibility of working in the office and from home.
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts: You may elect to set aside pre-tax earnings to pay for eligible health care and dependent day care expenses for you and your eligible family members.
• Maven Family Building Benefit: Maven offers support for fertility and preconception; pregnancy and post-partum; adoption; surrogacy and pediatrics for children up to age 10. Tradeweb provide a $10,000 lifetime reimbursement towards fertility, egg freezing, adoption and surrogacy expenses.
• Building Wealth - 401(k) Savings Plan: Employees are immediately eligible for the 401(k) plan. Participants may contribute up to 75% of eligible compensation into a traditional 401(k) and/or Roth 401(k). Tradeweb will match 100% of the first 4% of compensation that you contribute.
• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Program
• ARAG Legal Services
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Financial Wellness Tools
• Travel Assistance Benefits
• Pet Insurance
• Corporate Gym Subsidies
• Wellness Perks
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior