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Salary: USD 165,000 - 205,000 / annual
Webull Securities (US) LLC, a leading digital brokerage platform, is seeking a Director of Clearing Risk to own the firm's day-to-day capital, liquidity, and clearing risk framework. This is a hands-on build role responsible for ensuring the firm maintains sufficient capital and liquidity to support current and projected clearing activity under both normal and stressed market conditions.
You will work closely with the CEO of WSUS, U.S. Chief Risk Officer, CFO, Clearing Operations, Compliance, Treasury, and other senior stakeholders to establish risk limits, monitor exposures, escalate emerging issues, and strengthen management reporting across the clearing risk function.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the capital, liquidity, and clearing risk framework for Webull Securities (US) LLC, including daily monitoring of net capital, excess net capital, liquidity, and clearinghouse requirements
- Developing and maintaining early warning indicators, risk limits, escalation thresholds, governance routines, and management reporting for capital, liquidity, market, and clearing risk exposures
- Leading VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis, and capital forecasting to assess risk under normal and stressed market conditions and support projected clearing growth
- Monitoring NSCC, DTC, OCC, settlement-related liquidity exposure, margin, deposit, and funding requirements across the clearing broker business
- Assessing client, correspondent, counterparty, and concentration risk, and working with senior stakeholders to identify, escalate, and remediate emerging issues
Webull is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL and operates in 16 regions worldwide, serving over 20 million users. The company offers comprehensive benefits including 100% paid medical and dental insurance, 401(k) match, generous time off with increases based on tenure, paid parental leave, fitness and wellness benefits, pet insurance, tuition reimbursement, and dynamic office perks including catered meals and monthly happy hours.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, risk management, accounting, or a related quantitative field; advanced degree or relevant professional certification preferred
- 8+ years of relevant experience in risk management, capital, liquidity, market risk, clearing risk, broker-dealer risk, or a related control function
- Meaningful experience working at a U.S. clearing broker or self-clearing broker-dealer
- Strong understanding of SEC and FINRA net capital requirements, clearinghouse margin/deposit requirements, liquidity risk, and broker-dealer market risk
- Experience building or managing clearing risk dashboards, Early Warning Indicators, VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis, and capital frameworks
- Ability to independently challenge the business and escalate risk issues to executive management
- Strong analytical judgment, communication skills, and executive presence
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience interacting with NSCC, DTC, OCC, FINRA, SEC, or other relevant regulatory and market infrastructure stakeholders
- Prior responsibility for clearing house liquidity, daily margin/deposit forecasting, capital adequacy assessment, or broker-dealer stress testing
- Experience supporting senior risk governance forums, board or committee reporting, regulatory examinations, internal audit reviews, or remediation programs
- Advanced proficiency with Excel and experience using SQL, Python, or comparable data-analysis tools to analyze large datasets, automate risk monitoring, and support capital, liquidity, VaR, and stress-testing models
