Fintech Central Bank Adviser ($500,000 tax free + bens)

• Extensive experience (14+ years) in one or more of the following areas:
• Financial services industry:
• Proficiency in enterprise-wide risk management, or portfolio management and investment analyses of technology sectors and Fintech firms, or payment gateways/service providers ecosystem, or compliance of financial regulations
• In-depth understanding of financial institutions, markets and infrastructures (payment and settlement systems, central securities depositories, securities settlement systems, central counterparties etc.)
• Experience in research and development of innovative technologies and services in financial institutions or capital markets, particularly those involving distributed ledger, blockchain, cryptography, smart contracts or cloud database
• Macroeconomic research and policy think-tanks:
• Proven track record in conceptualizing, implementing and managing risk- or policy-oriented research for financial institutions, market infrastructure providers, rating agencies, research houses or regulatory bodies 
• Excellent understanding of contemporary economic, monetary, financial and fiscal policies, with applied research in financial markets
• Risk, technology and regulatory practitioners:

·   Senior expertise in risk oversight and controls, technology/infrastructure providers and policy enablers for emerging Fintech activities and platforms

Part B – Preferred but not essential requirements

• Keen understanding of the virtual/crypto asset ecosystem, ideally demonstrated through 2+ years professional roles in:
• Either technical advisory, regulatory compliance, academic or technology-based work relating to virtual assets (e.g. crypto-focused fund management, risk and technology advisory, economic research and regulatory analysis of crypto assets or CBDCs and/or their underlying core technologies); or
• One or more types of activities or services underpinning its value chain (virtual asset service provider), including but not limited to the issuance, validation, tokenization, exchange, trading, lending, custody/storage, payments, settlements or asset management of virtual assets; or
• One or more types of virtual/crypto assets, including but not limited to:
• Commonly regulated tokens (security or payment tokens, or tokenization of traditional financial and non-financial assets)
• Predominantly unregulated tokens (e.g. utility tokens, exchange tokens native/alternative/stable coins).

*NB: All applicants CVS will be reviewed and should your skillset match our client’s requirements, we will contact you via email / mobile. We are also happy to consider you for other open opportunities within Firstaff. If however, you object to us holding your data on file, please acknowledge via email by return.*