Group Chief Risk Officer

Client of Emerald Zebra Talent Solutions

Industry: Multi-Asset Digital Trading Platform, Role Type: Full-time, Executive (C-Level), Location: Dubai (primary), with oversight of India, Cyprus, Poland, Mauritius, and remote global teams. Reports to: Group CEO/Founder.

The Group Chief Risk Officer is accountable for building a zero-tolerance, risk-controlled trading and platform ecosystem across all business verticals spanning digital assets, foreign exchange, contracts for difference, and equities.

The CRO owns every component of enterprise risk, trading risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, regulatory risk, and market abuse prevention across:

• Institutional and High-Net-Worth client flows
• Retail user flows
• Foreign Exchange, Contracts for Difference, and Equities trading
• Cryptocurrency spot, perpetual futures, margin, and copy trading
• Treasury, liquidity, hedging, and bridge flows
• Market-making counterparties and internal inventory
• Multi-regulator environments (Dubai VARA, Mauritius FSC, Poland VASP, FIU India, Cyprus, etc.)

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Risk Framework (Group-Wide)
   
   • Build the Group Risk Framework covering market, liquidity, operational, cyber, compliance, technology, and credit risk
   • Establish three-lines-of-defence architecture across all trading platforms, OTC, treasury, and institutional desks
   • Define risk appetite, limits, capital buffers, stress tests, and escalation protocols
2. Trading Risk & Market Surveillance
   

   Implement real-time risk engines for:

   • Foreign exchange, CFDs, and equities
   • Cryptocurrency spot and perpetual futures
   • Margin lending and leverage controls
   • Copy trading risk controls (leader risk scoring, follower allocation limits)

   Build surveillance systems for:

   • Price manipulation
   • Wash trading
   • Abusive order flow
   • Latency abuse
   • Insider activity

   Create risk halts, kill switches, automatic deleveraging rules, and liquidation parameters.

3. Liquidity, Treasury & Counterparty Risk
   
   • Oversee treasury operations for all fiat and digital asset flows
   • Set counterparty onboarding criteria for liquidity providers, market makers, brokers, and custodians
   • Define liquidity stress rules, intraday funding controls, and internal net-off logic
4. Digital Asset Custody Risk & Governance
   

   Take full ownership of risk governance within the digital asset custody ecosystem, including:

   • Oversight of policy engine rules, transaction signing policies, routing logic, and approval thresholds
   • Designing MPC-based workflow controls for withdrawals, deposits, internal transfers, and treasury movements
   • Implementing segregation of wallets for retail clients, institutional clients, operational hot wallets, treasury cold wallets, and market-making/hedging wallets
   • Continuous monitoring of transaction logs, risk alerts, and anomaly detection
   • Ensuring no single point of failure exists in signing, approvals, or emergency access
   • Periodic review of custody configurations to match changing regulatory obligations across all jurisdictions
   • Integrating custody systems with internal risk dashboards for exposure tracking, counterparty monitoring, and liquidity risk
   • Approving new workspace setups, vaults, and asset enablement requests
   • Conducting quarterly access control, permissions, and role audits across all internal teams
   • Designing emergency protocols for key recovery, platform downtime, transaction halts, and wallet compromise scenarios
   • Owning the end-to-end digital asset custody risk framework across retail, institutional, OTC, and treasury operations
5. Product Risk Governance
   

   No product goes live without the CRO s sign-off.

   This includes:

   • Perpetual futures parameters
   • Margin tiers
   • Copy-trading frameworks
   • New tokens and new CFD assets
   • Staking, earn, or structured products
   • High-frequency or high-leverage products
6. Regulatory & Jurisdictional Risk
   
   • Ensure global alignment across Dubai VARA, Mauritius FSC, Poland VASP, FIU India, Cyprus, and any other jurisdictions
   • Maintain documentation, audit trails, incident reporting, and risk capital assessment
   • Engage with regulators directly when required
7. Operational Risk & Business Continuity
   
   • Build Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) for all markets
   • Create incident-response playbooks across liquidity, pricing, technology, and compliance
   • Ensure vendor risk management, infrastructure risk scoring, and data protection controls
8. Team Building & Leadership
   

   Build a global risk function including:

   • Market Risk
   • Liquidity & Treasury Risk
   • Operational Risk
   • Regulatory & Compliance Risk
   • Technology & Cyber Risk
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