Member of Risk, Enterprise Risk Management

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 first 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.

Demonstrated strong knowledge of specific domains, such as RCSAs and operations of a GRC tool.

Support the implementation of Risk and Control Assessments for Anchorage Digital regulated entities.

Advise on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of Anchorage risk assessment standards.

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.

Draft risk assessment reports and presentation material tailored to senior leadership and/or regulators.

Ability to interpret applicable regulations and be a self starter in research.

Excellent google sheets or excel skills.

Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to manage relationships with multiple stakeholders.

Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to identify applicable risks, map mitigating controls and evaluate the effectiveness, and articulate risk rating rationale.

Determine methods and procedures on new assignments. Successfully navigate roadblocks that may come up, escalating timely when blocked.

Support audit and regulatory requests, including risk assessment summaries, remediation and other evidence produced by the ERM program.

Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess a wide range of topics and assess risk at a micro and a macro level.

Assist the Risk Assessments Lead in evaluating new business initiatives in relation to risk appetite.

Assess the organization's risk management policies and strategies in relation to applicable regulations and regulatory expectations.

Understand and consider Anchorage Digital’s strategy as part of the risk assessment process.

In collaboration with the Risk Assessments Lead, understand how the company’s priorities relate to Enterprise Risk Management, and clearly communicate the ‘why’ behind the work.

Communicating and escalating risk trends and risk management best practices.

Break down large risk assessment 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.

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to map mitigating controls and articulate risk rating rationale.

Experience working in a fast-paced environment.

Crypto industry knowledge

Proficiency in evaluating new business initiatives in relation to the company's risk appetite.

Foundational knowledge of control frameworks and control typologies.

You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)