Coins.ph

Head of Risk

Coins.ph

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Taguig City • Philippines

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

PythonSQL

About the role

  • Develop overall company risk appetite, policies, procedures, and indicator systems.
  • Establish a three-lines-of-defense risk governance structure and produce regular risk assessment and management reports.
  • Lead approval of major risk projects, conduct stress testing, and develop contingency plans for extreme market conditions.
  • Design and monitor risk rules for spot, financial products, OTC, and other exchange businesses.
  • Manage liquidation mechanisms, margin systems, position limits, price manipulation prevention, and abnormal market behavior monitoring.
  • Build risk systems for fiat on/off ramps, fiat channels, on-chain transfers, and custodial wallets.
  • Prevent money laundering, fraud, account hacking, cash-out abuse, and cross-platform arbitrage.
  • Develop user tiering, behavior profiling, abnormal transaction detection, and intelligent risk models.
  • Mitigate risks including account theft, brute-force attacks, batch registration, wash trading, and money laundering rings.
  • Optimize risk rules, reduce false positives, and manage user appeal mechanisms.
  • Build, lead, and develop the risk team; set OKRs, performance, and talent development plans.

Requirements

  • Experience: 8+ years of risk experience in finance or crypto industry; 3+ years as a risk leader at a top-tier CEX or payment platform; deep understanding of full exchange operations and payment flows.
  • Professional Expertise: Proficient in market, credit, operational, and liquidity risk; expert in AML, anti-fraud, and on-chain analytics; familiar with margin, liquidation, custody, and fund security.
  • Compliance Knowledge: Strong understanding of global virtual asset regulatory frameworks (FATF, MiCA, SFC, etc.); experience in license application and compliance implementation.
  • Technical Skills: Understanding of risk systems, rule engines, and dashboards; SQL, Python, or risk modeling skills are a plus.
  • Soft Skills: Strong risk judgment, ability to work under pressure, excellent crisis response; strong cross-team execution and English communication skills.
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Law, or related field.
  • Preferred Qualifications: Professional certifications such as CFA, FRM, ACAMS, CAMS.
  • Experience in on-chain analytics, wallet security, or quantitative hedging.
  • Experience managing global teams and implementing compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
Benefits
  • Meaningful Collaborations - The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with other relevant teams to carry out implementations that will improve and create an impact on customer experience.
  • Scalable Growth - Be part of a fast-growing organization with the vision to expand its territories outside APAC which will provide opportunities for career advancement.
  • A Space For Bright Ideas - Let your bright ideas be converted into meaningful changes! Coins culture welcomes new ideas backed up by data to create an impact.
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Hard Skills & Tools
risk managementmarket riskcredit riskoperational riskliquidity riskanti-money laundering (AML)fraud preventionon-chain analyticsSQLPython
Soft Skills
risk judgmentability to work under pressurecrisis responsecross-team executionEnglish communication
Certifications
CFAFRMACAMSCAMS