About the Opportunity

Bitvavo is strengthening its Risk Management function with a dedicated Financial Risk Officer. While your primary focus will be on Market Risk, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to Liquidity and Credit Risk initiatives, making this a versatile and impactful role within our risk team.
You will join a multidisciplinary Risk team that partners with Trading, Treasury, Product, Data and Compliance to keep Bitvavo’s market-, credit- and liquidity-risk profile safely inside the limits set by the Management Board. This role is well-suited to an experienced risk professional who wants to take ownership, drive frameworks forward, and contribute to high-level decision-making.
Your mandate is broad: design and own the market-risk framework across our spot exchange, staking & lending products, and margin programme for institutional clients. You will translate senior management’s risk appetite into clear metrics, monitor exposures intraday, challenge the first line when limits are approached and provide the Risk Committee with forward-looking insight.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own the market-risk framework – Maintain and enhance policies, methodologies and limits (VaR, stress scenarios, liquidity adjusted exposure, concentration limits).
• Contribute across risk types – Support initiatives in liquidity risk (funding gaps, contingency planning) and credit risk (counterparty reviews, concentration risk)
• Build and run monitoring & reporting – Produce daily risk dashboards; investigate limit breaches, propose remedial action and escalate to the Risk Committee.
• Independent product review – Assess financial-risk implications of new products (e.g. new asset listings, structured staking, perpetual futures) and material changes to existing services.
• Stress testing & reverse stress testing – Develop macro-/micro-driven scenarios (flash crashes, liquidity dries-up, stable-coin de-pegs) that reflect crypto-specific behaviours; present actionable insights to senior leadership.
• Model governance & margin design – Validate and enhance models (VaR, margin, back-testing, benchmarking, sensitivity analysis), align with regulatory/industry standards, and cooperate with business-stakeholders for Model Validation.
• Link risks together – Quantify how market moves propagate into liquidity needs (margin calls, withdrawals) and credit exposures, working with Treasury and other stakeholders.
• Cryptocurrency Exchange - Review new listings and product governance, Monitor Market Makers, Liquidity Providers and retail exposures and escalate accordingly.
• Stakeholder influence – Translate technical risk metrics into clear business insights for senior management, regulators, and external stakeholders.

What We Look For

• 5+ years of risk management experience, ideally in a trading firm, crypto exchange, investment bank, fintech, or similar financial institution.
• Broad knowledge across market, liquidity, and credit risk – with the ability to connect the dots rather than focus narrowly on one area.
• Deep understanding of portfolio risk metrics (VaR & alternatives), stress testing, scenario design and margining.
• Good understanding on how an exchange operates, margin trading, lending and staking service and product knowledge.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, simplifying complex risk concepts into actionable insights.
• Hands-on, ownership-driven attitude; comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-uncertainty environment.Confident presenting to senior management and regulators; skilled in writing concise risk memos.Master Degree in Finance, Economics, Business or other relevant field of study.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

At Bitvavo, we believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation, foster creativity, and lead to better outcomes. We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. Regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability, or any other characteristic. Join us and be part of a team that values and celebrates your unique contributions.

Bitvavo does not accept resumes from staffing, search, or recruitment firms without a signed agreement. If you send us a resume without such an agreement, we may contact the candidate directly without any obligation whatsoever and no fee of any kind will be paid should we hire the candidate.