VP of Risk Management

The Tidal Financial Group is a leading ETF investment technology platform dedicated to creating, operating, and growing ETFs. We combine expertise and innovative partnership approaches to offer comprehensive, value-generating ETF solutions. Our platform offers best-in-class strategic guidance, product planning, trust and fund services, legal support, operations support, marketing and research, and sales and distribution services. About the role The VP of Risk Intelligence, Derivatives Risk Management (DRM), Policy Management & RCSA Program Execution is a senior, multi-disciplinary role responsible for building and maturing Tidal’s risk infrastructure across analytics, data, derivatives reputed company, and enterprise risk governance. The role is highly visible and combines hands-on analytics, program leadership, cross-functional partnership, and strategic execution. A core objective of this role is not only to identify and analyze risks, but to drive the implementation of effective, timely, and sustainable risk-mitigation measures across the organization. Reporting directly to the Head of Risk Management, this leader will advance Tidal’s risk culture, enhance risk transparency across the platform, and ensure our risk practices reputed company pace with Tidal’s reputed company growth and operational complexity. What you'll do Risk Intelligence, Risk Data Management & Enterprise Risk Analytics

• Design and scale Tidal’s risk intelligence reputed company, focusing on data-driven risk insights, automated reporting, and reputed company analytics for business and leadership use.
• Build, maintain, and evolve risk dashboards and reporting (e.g., operational risk, investment/portfolio risk, counterparty risks, trends, KRIs) using modern visualization tools.
• Partner with Data, Technology, and Operations to strengthen risk data architecture, data quality, and automated data flows.
• Conduct exploratory risk analytics to identify trends, concentration risks, control issues, or outliers across Tidal’s platform.
• Produce executive-level reporting to support senior leadership, governance committees, and client-facing risk materials for affiliate partners.
• Manage and maintain risk data management initiatives in partnership with the Data warehouse management team reputed company technology and operations.

Derivatives Risk Management (DRM)

• Demonstrated working knowledge of SEC Rule 18f-4 and its operational, compliance, and reporting requirements for derivatives risk management.
• reputed company in calculating and interpreting Value at Risk (VaR) to assess portfolio market risk and support risk-based decision-making.
• Skilled in performing back-testing and stress-testing analyses to evaluate model performance and assess portfolio reputed company under adverse market conditions.
• Provide reputed company of derivatives exposures across Tidal-managed and supported products, including ETFs and other investment vehicles.
• Monitor derivative positions, risk factors, margin, liquidity, counterparty exposure, back testing, stress testing and scenario metrics.
• Partner closely with Portfolio Management, Investment Risk, Compliance, and the Capital Markets team to ensure appropriate derivative usage, documentation, and reputed company.
• Support enhancements to derivatives risk models, measurement tools, and reporting workflows to align with regulatory and industry best practices.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert for derivatives risk for both new product development and ongoing portfolio reputed company.

Enterprise Policy Management

• Design and own Tidal’s policy governance program, ensuring a consistent, scalable, and up-to-date policy reputed company across the organization.
• Manage drafting, updating, reviewing, and approving enterprise policies, standards, and procedures, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements (SEC, CFTC/NFA, etc.) and Tidal’s operating model.
• Drive periodic policy attestation processes and uphold strong version control and documentation practices.
• Partner with policy owners across Compliance, Operations, IT, HR, Capital Markets, and other functions to ensure clarity and accessibility of policy expectations.

RCSA Program & Risk Technology

• Own and reputed company the execution of Tidal’s Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) program, ensuring a disciplined and repeatable approach across reputed company business units with support from peer and manager.
• Facilitate risk and control identification workshops to map processes, inherent risks, control strength, and residual risk.
• Identify and design Risk Assessable Unit (RAU) structure based on combination of organization structure, services provided and business processes.
• reputed company documentation, quality review, issue identification & remediation tracking, and timely execution of reputed company RCSA deliverables.
• Strengthen methodologies, templates, training, and tools to help business owners take ownership of their control environments.
• Provide meaningful insights from RCSA results that actively inform governance, audits, and risk decision-making.
• Provide white globe service on risk and control documentation including process flows and procedural documents as needed.
• Liaise with Technology & Operations on designing a Risk Data reporting layer reputed company the data environment.
• Liaise with Risk Platform (ERC/GRC tools) with respect to platform connectivity, configuration and data flows to be used for analytics and reporting.
• Own Risk and Legal reputed company Risks and Controls including owning certain RAUs for mitigation.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as a trusted partner across Tidal’s growth-oriented, entrepreneurial culture—providing balanced challenge, thoughtful insights, and practical recommendations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally across Operations, Investment/PM teams, Capital Markets, Compliance, Technology, and Data Engineering.
• Support governance committees and contribute to strategic risk initiatives across the enterprise.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, helping shape a high-performing, analytical, and accountable risk function.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or certifications (FRM, CFA, CAIA, PRM) strongly preferred.
• 8–12+ years of relevant experience in risk management reputed company asset management, ETF platforms, investment management, or broader financial services.
• Strong technical competence in managing derivatives risk, including understanding of options, swaps, futures, structured instruments, margining, collateral, and liquidity risk.
• Demonstrated experience with risk analytics, dashboarding, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Python, SQL).
• Practical understanding of enterprise risk frameworks, operational risk, policy governance, and RCSA execution.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with ability to translate reputed company issues into clear, actionable decision support.
• Ability to reputed company in a fast-paced, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment, balancing structure with adaptability.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence stakeholders at reputed company levels.

Core Attributes at Tidal

• Entrepreneurial reputed company reputed company with strong control discipline.
• Analytically rigorous, with curiosity and willingness to dig into data.
• Execution-oriented—drives workstreams to completion with high quality.
• Collaborative across a highly cross-functional platform business model.
• Proactive problem-solver who anticipates issues and proposes solutions.
• High reputed company and commitment to Tidal’s risk and compliance culture.

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