Monolith Is Hiring

Published on: 20.06.2021

Monolith is looking for a Finance & Risk Modeller to help them see into the future.

Reporting directly to Finance Director, the successful candidate will be instrumental in the accuracy and timeliness of forecasts, and in helping the business understand and quantify the risks associated with the crypto assets, both on balance sheet and on product roadmap.

Joining Monolith is an opportunity to shape the future of finance. Their mission is to make it easy, safe and fun to grow money through the power of decentralised technology. They believe that blockchains will be transformative for society, and they’re dedicated to introducing the magic of DeFi to the world. Every member of team shares this passion, and each of them is proud to hold a place at the forefront of the crypto movement.

Initial Role Responsibilities will include:

Producing financial forecasts, covering cashflow, income statement and group balance sheet
Treasury forecasting and reporting (including crypto assets held by the company)
Performing financial risk analysis and reporting on crypto assets, DeFi protocols, and other financial features of products
Producing and maintaining dashboards (working with the Product team, probably using Google Datastudio)
Ad-hoc improvement projects across finance and operations.

Core Attributes that they look for:

Self-starter — you’ll be the first person in the team with a finance/risk modelling background so must be comfortable setting and taking ownership of your own direction
Self-developer — able to teach yourself new things quickly. You’ll need the curiosity to figure things out on your own
Communication — to balance “setting your own direction” with keeping your stakeholders informed
Comfortable with ambiguity — there are a lot of “unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” and that will persist for a while — you’ll need to relish the adventure!
Builder — The role will be starting from scratch. They’re looking for someone who sees that as the best part of the job.
Flexible — The needs of the role may change. You may need to help out in a completely different area of the business to the one you’re used to. They hope that’s an exciting challenge.

The ideal Candidate will have:

Expert level Excel skills (or in another, more suitable tool if you can suggest one)
Previous experience producing financial, treasury or risk models
Working knowledge of risk metrics like VaR, Sharpe Ratio etc and experience measuring and reporting on them
Experience in data visualisation and report building (ideally in Google Data Studio)
Knowledge of and interest in DeFi or crypto (beyond just buying and selling assets on Coinbase or Kraken)
Proficiency in a high-level programming language (e.g. SQL, Python, R)

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