Mercury
Head of Market & Liquidity Risk
$227K–$316K
San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within United States +1 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within United States
Any Office or Remote - Experience
- 12+ years.
About the job
Leads independent second-line oversight of Mercury’s liquidity, interest-rate, funding, investment, and related balance-sheet risks, partnering with Treasury and Finance and reporting to the Chief Risk Officer.
What you'll do
- Lead risk frameworks, policies, appetite measures, limits, monitoring, stress testing, and reporting for financial risks.
- Independently challenge Treasury and Finance strategies, models, assumptions, funding plans, investment activity, and hedging decisions.
- Build scalable risk capabilities and coordinate with internal teams and banking partners on assessments, reviews, audits, and examinations.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of experience in liquidity risk, interest-rate risk, treasury risk, market risk, asset-liability management, or broader financial-risk management.
- Meaningful independent second-line experience at a regulated bank, financial institution, fintech, or similarly complex financial-services company.
- Deep knowledge of liquidity, funding, stress testing, contingency funding, and interest-rate risk measurement.
- Experience challenging Treasury strategies, models, and assumptions; understanding of risk appetite, limits, escalation, and executive- and Board-level reporting.
Pay
$252,000 — $315,600 USD (base salary); $227,300 — $284,000 USD (base salary)
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