DriveWealth
Financial Risk Lead
$200K–$215K
Office - Chicago +2 · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Location
- Office - Chicago
Office - NYC
Office - NYC - Experience
- 10+ years; substantial experience in a broker-dealer, clearing firm, prime broker, or comparable regulated environment, with prior ownership of a risk program.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States full-time without current or future visa sponsorship; DriveWealth does not sponsor or support employment authorization, including transfers.
About the job
Leads second-line oversight of financial risks, building the firm’s risk frameworks, governance, analytics, and team across traditional and digital-asset activities.
What you'll do
- Build risk appetite, limits, policies, governance forums, and reporting for executive leadership and the Board.
- Own margin risk, liquidity and market-access oversight, and market, credit, and counterparty risk frameworks.
- Build the financial risk team and apply agentic AI to monitoring, exposure aggregation, breach detection, and scenario development.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in financial risk management in a broker-dealer, clearing firm, prime broker, or comparable regulated environment, including prior risk-program ownership.
- Experience across market, credit, liquidity, and counterparty risk; building margin policy, stress testing, and scenario design.
- Working knowledge of clearing and settlement mechanics, including NSCC and DTCC exposure and clearing fund dynamics.
- Practical fluency with agentic AI for risk work; quantitative skills using Python or SQL, large datasets, and BI and data visualization software; knowledge of relevant SEC, FINRA, CFTC, and NFA requirements.
Nice to have
- Exposure to digital assets, stablecoins, tokenized securities, event contracts, derivatives, or prediction markets; global multi-currency funding; or Treasury and balance sheet management.
- Relevant certifications (FRM, CFA, or comparable), Series 7, 24, 27, or 4, or an advanced quantitative degree.
Pay
$200,000 – $215,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, NSCC, DTCC
AI focus
Use agentic AI for continuous counterparty monitoring, automated exposure aggregation and limit-breach detection, and faster scenario construction.
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