Risk Assessment Standards Lead
Anchorage Digital
United States
Posted on Jan 16, 2025
At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
The Risk Shared Services team supports making informed decisions that align to strategic goals through the risk assessment process. In this role, you will influence efforts to identify, assess, and mitigate risk sources, develop risk strategy recommendations, and communicate both findings and recommendations to key business partners and senior leadership. We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Risk Shared Services, Risk Assessment Standards Lead:
Technical Skills
- Demonstrated exceptional knowledge of specific domains, such as RCSAs, operations of a GRC tool, crypto industry knowledge
- Develop, implement and monitor Risk and Control Assessments for ADS and ADNY and other regulated entities as it may be needed.
- Collaborate with GRC and TMG teams to assess impact on the control environment and RCSA’s
- Develop procedures to facilitate adherence to Risk Management Policy in ADS and ADNY.
- Have relevant business insight to develop KRIs and KPIs to monitor key risks.
- Work closely with Business Owners for remediation or quantify and accept risks identified during the RCSA process.
- Provide consultation on preparation of regulatory reporting, including identifying risks and controls surrounding that process.
- Perform Quality Assurance as required on RCSA data.
- Facilitate root-cause analysis on risk events and ensure that identified control gaps/weaknesses have a remediation plan and provide oversight on timely remediation of any control weaknesses
- Develop ongoing reporting packages for the Risk Management Committee and Senior Management.
- Ability to interpret regulations and be a self starter in research
- In depth understanding of critical risks applicable to financial institutions and experience enhancing ERM policies and procedures.
- Excellent google sheets or excel skills
- Excellent skills to coach more junior team members
Complexity & Impact of Work
- Work autonomously, without oversight, be the Thought Leader and exercise expertise and judgment when creating solutions.
- In collaboration with the Head of Risk, define priorities for regulated business lines such as ADS and ADNY with little direction, align to team and department strategy
- Apply a sophisticated approach to problem solving.
- Determine methods and procedures on new assignments. Successfully navigate roadblocks that may come up, escalating timely when blocked
- Directly responsible for the entire lifecycle of ERM projects, processes, or tasks, including planning and design, execution, and deployment.
- Support audit and regulatory requests, including risk assessment summaries, remediation and other evidence produced by the ERM program.
- Very strong analytical skills with the ability to assess a wide range of topics and assess risk at a micro and a macro level.
Organizational Knowledge
- Ensure the organization's risk management policies and strategies are in compliance with regulatory expectations, applicable regulations.
- Review the strategy of Anchorage Digital and consider it while developing the Risk frameworks.
- Ensure that knowledge is shared amongst the team and does not position themselves or others as a single point of failure.
- In collaboration with the Head of Risk,understand how the company’s priorities relate to Enterprise Risk Management, and clearly communicate the ‘why’ behind the work.
Communication & Influence
- Communicating and escalating risk trends and risk management best practices.
- Contribute to cross-functional ERM projects, collaborate with FCC, TMG, IT Risk, InfoSec teams and adjacent teams to solve problems, and assist or teach other team members.
- Break down large RCSA or Policy Review projects into smaller tasks, and accurately estimate the time and scope of projects. Articulate effectively the different options considered, analyze trade-offs, justifies and recommends priorities.
- Use compelling arguments to convey Risk Management insights, recommendations, conclusions and ideas on how to improve the program.
- Promote a positive working environment through proper listening, speaking and empathy with team members.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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