Head of Underwriting – Digital Asset Financing

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

₿ Crypto

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Tether.to

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

Crypto • Fintech • Finance

Tether. to is a leading digital asset company that pioneers the use of stablecoins in the blockchain space. As the most widely adopted stablecoin, Tether tokens are designed to be pegged 1-to-1 with fiat currencies, offering a stable digital asset option for users. The platform facilitates these token transactions across multiple blockchains, enhancing cross-border transactions while maintaining transparency with daily records of total assets and reserves. Tether's initiatives include educational programs promoting digital asset usage, especially targeting regions like the Middle East, Turkey, and the Philippines. Tether thus positions itself as a disruptor in the traditional financial system by enabling a stable, efficient method of handling transactions in the digital currency world.

📋 Description

• Lead the credit assessment of borrowers, including funds, miners, trading firms and corporates, from initial due diligence through transaction evaluation and approval recommendations • Analyse counterparty financial statements, liquidity, leverage, trading strategy, business models and overall creditworthiness • Evaluate digital asset collateral, collateral coverage, market volatility, liquidity and liquidation risks • Assess counterparties’ operational and custodial setups • Structure transaction terms and recommend appropriate LTV, tenor, covenants and margining • Identify and assess counterparty, market, concentration and operational risks • Prepare evidence-based underwriting assessments and present recommendations to decision-makers • Monitor existing exposures, identify emerging risks and recommend mitigation measures • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to facilitate transaction execution while maintaining disciplined underwriting standards • Enhance underwriting methodologies in response to evolving digital asset markets, products and risk dynamics

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience in underwriting, lending, credit risk, digital asset financing or a comparable field • Strong expertise in financial analysis, counterparty assessment, loan structuring (LTV, rates, thresholds) and credit risk evaluation • Understanding of collaterals including BTC/ETC, custody and transfers • Awareness of margin mechanics, including margin requirements, collateralisation, loan-to-value ratios, margin thresholds and liquidation processes • Experience conducting counterparty due diligence, including assessment of business models, ownership structures, operational capabilities and relevant risk factors • Skilled in ongoing risk monitoring, collateral coverage, margin calls, margin breaches and timely escalation of emerging risks • Understanding of digital assets, collateralised financing, cryptocurrency markets and associated liquidity and volatility risks • Experience evaluating complex transactions and making recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative analysis • Strong commercial acumen and ability to balance business opportunities with prudent risk management • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with exceptional attention to detail • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including articulating complex risk considerations to senior decision-makers • High levels of integrity, accountability and independent judgement • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, international environment, navigating ambiguity and making sound decisions under pressure • Excellent English communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work from anywhere in the world • Collaboration with a global team • Opportunity to contribute to an innovative fintech and digital asset platform • Professional opportunity to work with pioneering digital finance, energy, data, and education products