DriveWealth's award-winning APIs power modern investing for 150+ fintechs, brokers, and advisors worldwide, making it easy to launch new products fast. Backed by Accel, Insight and SoftBank VF.
About the role
Reporting to the Head of Risk Management, the Lead of Financial Risk owns second-line oversight of market, credit, liquidity, and counterparty risk across the firm. You will build the financial risk appetite and limit framework, establish the governance that sits around it, and carry meaningful visibility with executive leadership and the Board.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years in financial risk management, with substantial experience at a broker-dealer, clearing firm, prime broker, or comparable regulated environment, and prior ownership of a risk program
- Direct experience across market, credit, liquidity, and counterparty risk, ideally including securities lending and margin
- Demonstrated experience building margin policy, stress testing methodology, and scenario design, not only running an inherited model suite
- Working knowledge of clearing and settlement mechanics, including NSCC and DTCC exposure and clearing fund dynamics
- Practical fluency with agentic AI applied to risk work, with real examples of what you have built or deployed
- Strong quantitative capability with the tooling to apply it: Python or SQL, comfort working directly with large datasets and BI and data visualization software
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About Us
DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices. Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.
There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring...
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