Counterparty Risk Associate, Stripe

• The ideal candidate will have strong technical and interpersonal skills combined with the ability to work across product, partnerships, data science, and engineering teams, and will drive a product resilience-focused counterparty risk process that incorporates sound financial discipline
• If you are passionate about risk-centered counterparty management, financial institutions analysis, and driving financial discipline in partner selection central to our company-wide decision making and strategy, we want to hear from you!
• 7+ years of experience in one or more of: Treasury, financial institutions analysis, financial risk management, and market/settlement risks
• A proven ability to integrate fundamental analysis with applied risk management foundations, either in an investment portfolio management, debt capital markets, or financial derivatives trading context
• Track record of strong self-management and ability to handle both high-velocity, short-term deliverables while also progressing longer-term strategic objectives
• Demonstrated curiosity, resilience, problem-solving skills, and desire to contribute to a high-functioning team operating in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable

• The Capital and Financial Risk Management team sets Stripe’s financial risk strategy and develops analytical tools to promote risk-aware allocation of our resources ensuring that Stripe has sufficient capital and liquidity to support our users in all operating conditions
• Within CFRM, Financial Risk Management also works closely with product and other finance teams to shape our understanding of how Stripe is performing as a business and what our best opportunities are for continued growth
• We are looking for someone to join us to work alongside our business partners and our world-class engineers
• To support Stripe’s growth, we're looking for a stellar candidate to join our NYC-based team
• The Counterparty Risk Associate will help shape Stripe’s risk management of global financial partners, building deep knowledge of Stripe’s product and partner risk profile to inform our approach to managing and mitigating the resulting counterparty risks to our business
• Represent Treasury CFRM in interactions with Global Partnerships (GP) and key financial partners
• Drive Stripe’s approach to counterparty risk analysis, ensuring that our methodology reflects an optimal balance between fundamentals and market factors
• Maintain global view into overall resilience of partner support for Stripe’s core products and regions, calling stakeholder attention to areas at risk as they emerge
• Collaborate with GP, Product, and Legal colleagues to set appropriate risk limits and mitigants for counterparts, incorporating a deep understanding of the risk profile of the product(s) that each partner supports
• Further build out our financial risk governance framework, including board, management and team level key risk indicators and early warning signals
• Work with data science and engineering teams to develop tooling, observability, and analytics to support these efforts