VP of Risk Management
Tidal Financial Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Florida, Illinois, New York, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
PythonSQLTableau
About the role
- Design and scale Tidal’s risk intelligence framework, focusing on data-driven risk insights, automated reporting, and intuitive analytics for business and leadership use.
- Build, maintain, and evolve risk dashboards and reporting (e.g., operational risk, investment/portfolio risk, counterparty risks, trends, KRIs) using modern visualization tools.
- Partner with Data, Technology, and Operations to strengthen risk data architecture, data quality, and automated data flows.
- Conduct exploratory risk analytics to identify trends, concentration risks, control issues, or outliers across Tidal’s platform.
- Produce executive-level reporting to support senior leadership, governance committees, and client-facing risk materials for affiliate partners.
- Manage and maintain risk data management initiatives in partnership with the Data warehouse management team within technology and operations.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of SEC Rule 18f-4 and its operational, compliance, and reporting requirements for derivatives risk management.
- Experienced in calculating and interpreting Value at Risk (VaR) to assess portfolio market risk and support risk-based decision-making.
- Skilled in performing back-testing and stress-testing analyses to evaluate model performance and assess portfolio resilience under adverse market conditions.
- Provide oversight of derivatives exposures across Tidal-managed and supported products, including ETFs and other investment vehicles.
- Monitor derivative positions, risk factors, margin, liquidity, counterparty exposure, back testing, stress testing and scenario metrics.
- Partner closely with Portfolio Management, Investment Risk, Compliance, and the Capital Markets team to ensure appropriate derivative usage, documentation, and oversight.
- Support enhancements to derivatives risk models, measurement tools, and reporting workflows to align with regulatory and industry best practices.
- Design and own Tidal’s policy governance program, ensuring a consistent, scalable, and up-to-date policy framework across the organization.
- Manage drafting, updating, reviewing, and approving enterprise policies, standards, and procedures, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements (SEC, CFTC/NFA, etc.) and Tidal’s operating model.
- Drive periodic policy attestation processes and uphold strong version control and documentation practices.
- Partner with policy owners across Compliance, Operations, IT, HR, Capital Markets, and other functions to ensure clarity and accessibility of policy expectations.
- Own and lead the execution of Tidal’s Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) program, ensuring a disciplined and repeatable approach across all business units with support from peer and manager.
- Facilitate risk and control identification workshops to map processes, inherent risks, control strength, and residual risk.
- Provide meaningful insights from RCSA results that actively inform governance, audits, and risk decision-making.
- Act as a trusted partner across Tidal’s growth-oriented, entrepreneurial culture—providing balanced challenge, thoughtful insights, and practical recommendations.
- Mentor and guide junior team members, helping shape a high-performing, analytical, and accountable risk function.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or certifications (FRM, CFA, CAIA, PRM) strongly preferred.
- 8–12+ years of relevant experience in risk management within asset management, ETF platforms, investment management, or broader financial services.
- Strong technical competence in managing derivatives risk, including understanding of options, swaps, futures, structured instruments, margining, collateral, and liquidity risk.
- Demonstrated experience with risk analytics, dashboarding, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Python, SQL).
- Practical understanding of enterprise risk frameworks, operational risk, policy governance, and RCSA execution.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with ability to translate complex issues into clear, actionable decision support.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment, balancing structure with adaptability.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
risk analyticsdata visualizationValue at Risk (VaR)back-testingstress-testingderivatives risk managementoperational riskpolicy governancerisk data managementdata quality
Soft skills
written communicationverbal communicationinterpersonal skillsinfluencing stakeholdersmentoringanalytical skillsadaptabilitydecision supportcollaborationleadership
Certifications
FRMCFACAIAPRM