Risk Associate Job at Zero Hash, Chicago, IL

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  • Zero Hash
  • Chicago, IL

Job Description

About the Role

As the Risk Associate, reporting to the Director of Risk, you will play a key role in understanding and managing risks surrounding the platforms, participants, and transactions that Zero Hash works with every day, and in ensuring that strong risk controls are in place and operating effectively.

If you're looking for a fast-paced role where you can make a visible contribution to a high growth startup, this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities 

  • Work tightly with cross-functional teams to analyze risks, to evaluate internal controls, support internal audit activitiesto conduct internal audits, and to understand current business operations and future developments
  • Support the Internal Audit function by performing control assessments, spot checks, and remediation activities
  • Monitor for and assess risks presented by patterns and evolving risk trends, such as transaction flows, parties, services, or market structures that present aggregated risk
  • Evaluate and document internal controls and required mitigations, ensuring that risks remain well-controlled and holding the organization accountable to applicable risk mitigations
  • Understand and process information received by risk and audit teams
  • Participate in reviews of data and reports provided to external parties and stakeholders
  • Assist in the identification of risks to be managed
  • Conduct audits and reviews of company activities to ensure that regulations, rules, and policies are being followed
  • Conduct risk assessments of internal and external vendors, jurisdictions, regulations, competitors, services, and a variety of other topics
  • Develop and advise on risk mitigation strategies
  • Collaborate with various departments as needed
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of experience in risk, audit, or a closely related field
  • Ability to conceptualize abstract concepts and communicate effectively to a diverse audience
  • Demonstrated ability to see through the data to identify trends and patterns
  • Experience in one or more of the following:
    • Anti-money laundering, financial crimes, and money transmission
    • Financial risk management
    • Cryptocurrency settlement, custody, and markets
    • Data security and privacy
    • Fintech Product go to market process
  • Dependable and diligent, with solid follow-through
  • Self-directed, driven, with a burning desire to dig deeper and learn more
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills
  • English language proficiency
  • Willingness to work North American hours

Preferred

  • Previous fintech or startup experience

Benefits

We believe a happy, motivated, and healthy team is the best way to succeed. We offer the following benefits:

  • Chance to earn equity
  • Maternity & Paternity leave
  • WeWork Membership
  • WFH Yearly Stipend
  • L&D Stipend (after 6 months)

About Zero Hash 

Zero Hash's full stack financial infrastructure seamlessly connects fiat, crypto and stablecoins, enabling a better way to move and transfer money and value globally. Zero Hash provides the complete technical infrastructure (delivered through API and SDK) as well as the global regulatory stack to easily and compliantly send, receive, store, and convert fiat, crypto, and stablecoins, in one platform.

Start-ups, enterprises and Fortune 500 companies, including Stripe, Interactive Brokers, Shift4, Franklin Templeton, and MoonPay embed our infrastructure to power a diverse range of use cases: cross-border payments, commerce, trading, remittance, payroll, tokenization, wallets and on and off-ramps.

Backed by Interactive Brokers, Point72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, and tastytrade.

The Zero Hash Culture

All Zero Hash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:

  • Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously. Join Zero Hash, pitch ideas, and shape the work you do.
  • Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. We want you to think big, be creative and ​make a difference every day.
  • Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others. We're teammates, not co-workers. Everything we do is a shared success and equally a shared failure - we talk in terms of “we” not “me”.
  • Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions. We will champion you, challenge you and push you to achieve your best - and we expect you to do the same.
  • Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co-workers, customers, and everyone you interact with no matter how different they are to you.
  • Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure.
  • Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions, both the company to its people and vice versa.
  • Integrity - Integrity creates trust. As both an organization collectively and as individuals, it is our most valuable asset.

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For candidates based in Colorado, please contact colorado-wages @zerohash.com to request compensation and benefits information regarding a particular role(s). Please include with your email the city you reside (or intend to reside in Colorado) and the title/link to the roles you're interested in.

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