Senior Risk Analyst (Chef)

Steakhouse Financial’s mission is to pioneer open and transparent finance. We build transparent, efficient, and accessible financial primitives to power the next generation of capital markets on public blockchains. We empower leading DAOs and crypto-native companies including Sky (FKA MakerDAO), Lido, Morpho, Ethena, and ENS through strategic, risk, and financial advisory. Our focus areas include real world assets (RWAs), stablecoins, curating efficient lending markets, market making, and actively participating in markets via proprietary trading to enhance liquidity and overall market health.

We are gathering the best minds in finance, legal, data, engineering and now risk to build the future of finance.

About the Role:

As the Senior Risk Analyst, your hands will be shaping DeFi markets. You’ll not only analyze assets, monitor critical systems and ensure smooth execution, but also play a key role in the future of financial markets.

Our Morpho vaults have >$300M deposits and we are using both traditional (Real-World Asset) and innovative DeFi protocol tokens as collateral. This requires the ability to understand both TradFi and DeFi concepts (duration, legal setup, code, decentralization, etc).

Responsibilities:

• Lead the analysis of prospective new collateral type for Steakhouse Morpho vaults


• Conduct in-depth risk assessments of the existing and new crypto-assets to identify, evaluate, and quantify market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks


• Proactively monitor markets and to mitigate and minimize risks


• Create and maintain real-time dashboards to monitor key risk indicators (KRIs) and risk exposure across the Morpho vaults.


• Prepare regular risk reports for leadership, distilling complex data into actionable insights


• Communicate significant findings and emerging risks to relevant stakeholders promptly


• Design and implement risk mitigation strategies, including parameter adjustments (e.g., collateral ratios) to safeguard vault solvency


• Develop and execute stress-testing methodologies to gauge vault resilience under extreme market conditions (e.g., rapid price drops, liquidity crises)


• Propose vault-level contingency plans, including pause mechanisms or circuit breakers, for worst-case scenarios


• Research and recommend improvements and optimizations to existing vaults, and ideate on future products


• Keep track of DeFi industry developments, protocol upgrades, and new opportunities that might affect vaults


• Create and maintain comprehensive risk management policies and standard operating procedures related to the vaults


• Regularly review and refine analytics tools, risk models, and frameworks to adapt to the fast-paced DeFi environment


• Support development of new products and strategic products leveraging decentralized finance infrastructure

We’re looking for someone with:

• 5+ years of risk analysis in a TradFi and/or DeFi setup


• Deep understanding of financial markets


• Capacity to read and understand smart contracts


• Ability to write data analysis in Python (Jupyter)


• SQL proficiency (DuneSQL)


• Not afraid of rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty


• Highly detail-oriented


• Proactive and autonomous


• DeFi user

What’s in it for you:

Be part of an ecosystem that encourages transparency and alignment with open-source methodologies and principles.

• Participate in shaping the future of financial markets


• Contribute to high-impact projects that will drive the growth of decentralized finance


• Competitive compensation including bonus and equity


• Work within a remote and highly collaborative team consisting of diverse experts


• 100% remote with opportunities to travel to team events and conferences

Send us a message at chefs@steakhouse.financial at Steakhouse Financial on Find Web3).