Operations Risk Analyst

About the role

As an Operations Risk Analyst, you will help ensure the stability and integrity of Kalshi’s markets by contributing to post-trade processing and managing operational risk. You will monitor trading activity, safeguard customer positions, and serve as the first point of contact for clients and clearing members regarding operational issues. This role involves protecting participants, minimizing risk, and shaping the systems that power the next generation of financial markets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily trade and clearing operations across Kalshi’s current and new markets, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance
• Continuously monitor risk exposure, system performance, and operational controls; swiftly escalate and collaborate with engineering and risk teams to address and remediate issues
• Identify operational risks proactively and contribute to the development and refinement of automated monitoring and exception-handling systems
• Lead or participate in incident response, root-cause analyses, and post-mortems, ensuring actionable outcomes and continuous operational improvements
• Partner cross-functionally with other teams to drive continuous improvement in risk management processes, documentation, and governance
• Support new clearing and risk initiatives aligned with Kalshi’s growth strategy and expansion into new markets and trading products

Required skills

• Clearing processes
• Operational risk management
• Listed derivatives
• Repo
• Treasury
• OTC markets
• Excel
• Google Sheets
• Financial technology

Nice to have

• Clearing systems
• Exchange systems
• Derivatives
• Event-based trading

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field

About the Company

Kalshi has defined a new category of prediction markets, allowing people to trade on the outcome of events and turn questions about the future into financial assets. It is the fastest growing financial market in America, with a mission to bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.