About the company
Risk Labs is the foundation and core team behind the UMA and Across projects. UMA and Across are decentralized protocols governed by community members across the globe in DAOs, and are supported by Risk Labs Foundation. UMA's optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain. Across is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMAās OO.
Job Summary
As the Risk Officer, you'll play a pivotal role in building and strengthening our risk program. Here's how you'll make a difference:
šServe as a designated Risk Officer in conversations with regulators, auditors, and partnersāexplaining our risk approach, governance structures, and control environment. šDrive risk reporting to senior leadership and the board, delivering clear, actionable insights. šPartner with Product, Data, and Engineering to design and optimize fraud detection tools and processes. šChampion a strong risk-aware culture throughout the companyāhelping teams understand risk in a practical, business-aligned way. šCollaborate across teams including Compliance, Product, Finance, and Customer Success to align objectives and address risks across different projects and products. šDrive a vendor management program that improves efficiencies and reduces risk for business partners šResponsible for the definition, maintenance, and administration of our third party & vendor management risk framework, continuously driving improvements šSupport the monitoring of outsourcing risk mitigation and create related reports to management. šSupport and development of Sourcing, Procurement, Outsourcing and Vendor Management policies and processes šAssist the department lead in defining the relevant key performance indicators, key risk indicators and relevant reporting šIndependently keep yourself up to date with regulatory changes in the markets we are licensed and point out possible changes to our protocols that need to be made
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
šAt least 5 years prior experience within Banking, Finance or FinTech, with strong understanding of and experience with risk management and methodologies using analytical tools and techniques šStrong analytical abilities with the capacity to transform data into a strategic vision šExcellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities. šPerform well in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, diverse work environment with great follow through. šExcel in relationship building & have experience managing complex cross-functional relationships. šKnowledge of and experience with crypto is a plus. šHybrid role in our Malta office.
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