Financial Risk Manager
Alpaca · Finance · Senior · 1mo ago
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“We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!”
Teammates span the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond.
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As Financial Risk Manager, you will work closely with the Head of Treasury to develop and execute Alpaca's liquidity risk infrastructure from scratch. This individual contributor role focuses on establishing daily reporting pipelines, intraday monitoring, stress testing frameworks, and alerting controls to support Treasury decisions as Alpaca expands into new products and global markets.
What you'll do
- Build and own daily liquidity reporting and automated data pipelines across products and legal entities using SQL and Python
- Establish intraday liquidity monitoring capabilities, limits, early warning indicators, and escalation protocols
- Develop and execute intraday and long-term stress testing frameworks, covering tail-risk scenarios, net capital, and customer reserve impacts
- Build, calibrate, and maintain Monte Carlo simulation models to evaluate liquidity risk distributions under adverse conditions
- Design alerting systems and governance controls to support Treasury decision-making, internal audits, and regulatory reporting
- Provide liquidity risk input during new product approvals and partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Risk, and Operations
What you bring
- Hands-on experience in financial risk management, treasury operations, or liquidity stress testing
- Strong technical ability to automate data workflows and model simulations using tools like SQL and Python
- Experience building deterministic stress tests and Monte Carlo simulation models
- Familiarity with broker-dealer liquidity frameworks and regulatory requirements such as SEC Rules 15c3-1 and 15c3-3
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a developer-focused, institutional-grade brokerage infrastructure platform enabling trading in stocks, ETFs, crypto, and fixed income. Backed by top venture funds, Alpaca serves hundreds of financial institutions and millions of brokerage accounts globally.
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