Risk Manager
Tesseract is a Helsinki-based institutional digital-asset manager. It provides MiCA-authorized discretionary portfolio management through segregated on-chain client vaults and institutional crypto-lending infrastructure for treasuries, funds, exchanges, wallets, and fintechs.
Funding history
About Tesseract
Tesseract operates institutional digital-asset yield products through separate group entities. Tesseract Investment Oy is a MiCA-authorized Crypto-Asset Service Provider offering discretionary portfolio management through per-client, segregated on-chain Dedicated Client Vaults. Tesseract Earn Oy provides institutional crypto-lending infrastructure, including custody, credit, settlement, reporting, and API-based integrations for businesses and platforms that offer yield to their users. Its clients include institutional allocators, treasuries, family offices, funds, exchanges, wallets, neobanks, custodians, and fintechs.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will maintain and improve risk frameworks, policies, and methodologies. You will own the risk register, monitor risks across custody, vault, and trading activities, and partner with the trading desk on limits, venues, protocols, and strategies. You will work with Legal and Compliance, support regulatory dialogue, and prepare risk reporting for management, auditors, the risk committee, and the Board.
Requirements
- 3 to 6 years of risk management experience, including 1 to 2 years in crypto, digital assets, or another regulated financial environment.
- Understanding of trading across CEX, DEX, and DeFi and their custody, liquidity, smart contract, stablecoin, and counterparty risks.
- Working knowledge of MiCA and the EU regulatory landscape; DORA and AML/Travel Rule knowledge is a plus.
- Experience assessing and improving risk frameworks and maintaining a risk register.
- Stakeholder management experience with trading desks, senior management, Legal, Compliance, and regulators.
- Analytical skills using Excel or SQL; Python is a plus.
- Clear written reporting and business-level English.
- Degree in finance, economics, mathematics, engineering, or a related field; FRM, PRM, or CAIA is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Review risk frameworks, policies, and methodologies and recommend improvements.
- Own the risk register by identifying, assessing, rating, tracking, and closing risks and mitigations.
- Monitor market, counterparty, liquidity, custody, and operational risk across custody, vault, and trading activities.
- Partner with the trading desk on limits, venues, protocols, and strategies, and challenge positions when needed.
- Collaborate with Legal and Compliance to meet MiCA, DORA, and AML expectations.
- Support regulatory dialogue and prepare risk reporting for management, the risk committee, auditors, and the Board.