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Chief Risk Officer roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which requires employers to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available. Financial institutions, insurance groups, and large corporations regularly sponsor CROs, making this one of the more accessible executive paths to permanent residency for credentialed risk professionals.
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Position Summary
Velox Clearing, a correspondent-clearing broker-dealer, is seeking an experienced Chief Risk Officer to lead the firm’s enterprise risk-management program. The CRO will be responsible for identifying, measuring, monitoring, and controlling risks arising from the firm’s clearing of U.S. equities and listed options. The role requires significant experience with correspondent clearing, margin, market and credit risk, liquidity, securities lending, settlement exposure, and regulatory requirements. The CRO will work closely with the CEO, COO, Finance, Compliance, Technology, and Client Service teams and will have authority to escalate material risks, impose restrictions, require additional collateral, and recommend liquidation or termination of higher-risk relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the firm’s risk-management framework, policies, limits, and escalation procedures.
- Monitor customer, correspondent, counterparty, and firm-level exposure arising from equities, listed options, margin accounts, securities lending, and settlement activity.
- Establish and enforce risk limits for trading, margin and concentration.
- Review daily and intraday risk reports, including margin deficiencies, concentrated positions, stress losses, settlement obligations, and unusual trading activity.
- Oversee stress testing, scenario analysis, liquidity-risk assessments, and contingency planning.
- Evaluate the financial condition, business model, customer base, trading strategy, operational controls, and risk profile of new and existing correspondent clients.
- Participate in client onboarding and periodic reviews and recommend appropriate limits, collateral requirements, product restrictions, or enhanced monitoring.
- Work with Operations and Finance to manage OCC, NSCC, and DTC margin, clearing-fund, collateral, and settlement obligations.
- Coordinate responses to market volatility, large margin calls, settlement failures, account deficits, and other material risk events.
- Review new products, execution venues, trading strategies, and system changes before implementation.
- Partner with Compliance on regulatory, AML, market-manipulation, and trade-surveillance matters that may create financial or reputational risk.
- Support compliance with applicable SEC, FINRA, OCC, DTCC, and exchange requirements, including SEC Rules 15c3-1 and 15c3-3.
- Establish key risk indicators and provide regular risk reports to the CEO and relevant committees.
- Participate in regulatory examinations, audits, and responses to inquiries.
- Build and lead a strong risk-management team and promote a firmwide culture of accountability and prudent risk management.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 7 years of broker-dealer, clearing, market-risk, credit-risk, or related financial-services experience.
- Significant experience at a carrying or correspondent-clearing broker-dealer.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. equities and listed-options clearing.
- Experience with margin management, stress testing, concentration risk, liquidity risk, settlement exposure, and customer or correspondent credit risk.
- Working knowledge of OCC, DTC, NSCC, FINRA, SEC financial-responsibility rules, Regulation T, portfolio margin, and applicable margin requirements.
- Ability to evaluate complex options portfolios, short-option exposure, volatility risk, and liquidation risk.
- Experience reviewing introducing brokers, omnibus relationships, institutional clients, or active-trading businesses.
- Strong judgment and the ability to make timely decisions during periods of market stress.
- Excellent analytical, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate risk issues clearly to executives, regulators, clients, and technical teams.
- Clean regulatory and employment history required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with securities lending, hard-to-borrow securities, low-priced securities, foreign correspondents, or omnibus clearing relationships.
- Experience using SQL, risk analytics, relational databases, or business-intelligence tools.
- Experience developing automated risk reports, dashboards, alerts, and limit-monitoring systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, technology, or a related field.
Licensing
- FINRA Series 7 and Series 24 preferred or required based on assigned responsibilities.
- Ability to obtain and maintain any additional registrations required by the firm.
Position Details
- Full-time executive position.
- On-site.
- Competitive compensation based on experience.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Life insurance and long-term disability options available.
Chief Risk Officer - Velox Clearing LLC
Position Summary
Velox Clearing, a correspondent-clearing broker-dealer, is seeking an experienced Chief Risk Officer to lead the firm’s enterprise risk-management program. The CRO will be responsible for identifying, measuring, monitoring, and controlling risks arising from the firm’s clearing of U.S. equities and listed options. The role requires significant experience with correspondent clearing, margin, market and credit risk, liquidity, securities lending, settlement exposure, and regulatory requirements. The CRO will work closely with the CEO, COO, Finance, Compliance, Technology, and Client Service teams and will have authority to escalate material risks, impose restrictions, require additional collateral, and recommend liquidation or termination of higher-risk relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the firm’s risk-management framework, policies, limits, and escalation procedures.
- Monitor customer, correspondent, counterparty, and firm-level exposure arising from equities, listed options, margin accounts, securities lending, and settlement activity.
- Establish and enforce risk limits for trading, margin and concentration.
- Review daily and intraday risk reports, including margin deficiencies, concentrated positions, stress losses, settlement obligations, and unusual trading activity.
- Oversee stress testing, scenario analysis, liquidity-risk assessments, and contingency planning.
- Evaluate the financial condition, business model, customer base, trading strategy, operational controls, and risk profile of new and existing correspondent clients.
- Participate in client onboarding and periodic reviews and recommend appropriate limits, collateral requirements, product restrictions, or enhanced monitoring.
- Work with Operations and Finance to manage OCC, NSCC, and DTC margin, clearing-fund, collateral, and settlement obligations.
- Coordinate responses to market volatility, large margin calls, settlement failures, account deficits, and other material risk events.
- Review new products, execution venues, trading strategies, and system changes before implementation.
- Partner with Compliance on regulatory, AML, market-manipulation, and trade-surveillance matters that may create financial or reputational risk.
- Support compliance with applicable SEC, FINRA, OCC, DTCC, and exchange requirements, including SEC Rules 15c3-1 and 15c3-3.
- Establish key risk indicators and provide regular risk reports to the CEO and relevant committees.
- Participate in regulatory examinations, audits, and responses to inquiries.
- Build and lead a strong risk-management team and promote a firmwide culture of accountability and prudent risk management.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 7 years of broker-dealer, clearing, market-risk, credit-risk, or related financial-services experience.
- Significant experience at a carrying or correspondent-clearing broker-dealer.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. equities and listed-options clearing.
- Experience with margin management, stress testing, concentration risk, liquidity risk, settlement exposure, and customer or correspondent credit risk.
- Working knowledge of OCC, DTC, NSCC, FINRA, SEC financial-responsibility rules, Regulation T, portfolio margin, and applicable margin requirements.
- Ability to evaluate complex options portfolios, short-option exposure, volatility risk, and liquidation risk.
- Experience reviewing introducing brokers, omnibus relationships, institutional clients, or active-trading businesses.
- Strong judgment and the ability to make timely decisions during periods of market stress.
- Excellent analytical, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate risk issues clearly to executives, regulators, clients, and technical teams.
- Clean regulatory and employment history required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with securities lending, hard-to-borrow securities, low-priced securities, foreign correspondents, or omnibus clearing relationships.
- Experience using SQL, risk analytics, relational databases, or business-intelligence tools.
- Experience developing automated risk reports, dashboards, alerts, and limit-monitoring systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, technology, or a related field.
Licensing
- FINRA Series 7 and Series 24 preferred or required based on assigned responsibilities.
- Ability to obtain and maintain any additional registrations required by the firm.
Position Details
- Full-time executive position.
- On-site.
- Competitive compensation based on experience.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Life insurance and long-term disability options available.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Chief Risk Officer
Document your progressive risk leadership credentials
PERM requires your employer to define the job's minimum requirements, and your credentials must meet them exactly. Compile evidence of progressive responsibility across enterprise risk, regulatory compliance, or quantitative risk functions to support both EB-2 advanced-degree and EB-3 skilled-worker classifications.
Look up prevailing wage before negotiating salary
Your employer must pay the PERM prevailing wage for the CRO role in the specific metro area. Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the wage level before you negotiate, so your offer clears DOL's threshold without requiring a costly amendment later.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate by role and location
Target employers with verified green card sponsorship history in risk management rather than cold-applying broadly. Migrate Mate lists companies that have sponsored roles in this occupation, letting you prioritize outreach to organizations already familiar with the PERM and I-140 process.
Understand how PERM recruitment shapes your offer timeline
Before filing PERM, your employer must run a mandatory recruitment test, including newspaper ads and internal postings, over roughly 30 to 180 days. Build this window into your start-date negotiations so the sponsorship process doesn't conflict with your expected transition date.
File I-140 concurrently if your priority date allows
Once PERM is certified, your employer files an I-140 petition with USCIS. If your country of birth faces per-country backlogs, an approved I-140 locks in your priority date even if you later change employers under AC21 portability rules, protecting years of waiting time.
Align your O*NET occupation code with the job description
PERM filings require a specific SOC code, and mismatches between the job description and O*NET's classification for Chief Risk Officer roles can trigger audits. Confirm with your employer's immigration counsel that the duties match the O*NET profile before the recruitment phase begins.
Green Card Chief Risk Officer: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Chief Risk Officer roles commonly qualify for EB-2 green card sponsorship?
Yes. CRO positions typically require a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus at least five years of progressive experience in risk management, credit analysis, or regulatory compliance, which meets the EB-2 advanced-degree standard. Employers must file PERM labor certification with DOL first, then an I-140 petition with USCIS before you can proceed to adjustment of status or consular processing.
How does green card sponsorship for a CRO role differ from H-1B sponsorship?
H-1B visa sponsorship is temporary and renewable, while green card sponsorship leads to lawful permanent residency with no ongoing renewal requirement. The green card path adds a PERM labor certification stage, in which your employer must run a formal recruitment test and obtain a prevailing wage determination from DOL before filing the I-140 with USCIS. The process is longer but the outcome is permanent status.
What happens to my green card case if I change employers as a sponsored CRO?
If your I-485 adjustment application has been pending for at least 180 days and your I-140 was already approved, AC21 portability lets you move to a new employer in the same or a similar occupation without losing your place in line. Your priority date from the original approved I-140 can also carry over to a new employer's petition, protecting accumulated waiting time.
How do I find employers that sponsor green cards for Chief Risk Officer positions?
Start with Migrate Mate, which lists U.S. employers with verified green card sponsorship history searchable by occupation and location. Financial services firms, bank holding companies, insurance carriers, and large industrial corporations are the most active sponsors for senior risk roles, since regulators often require dedicated CRO-level oversight that cannot easily be filled domestically on short notice.
Can nationals from high-backlog countries still pursue EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship for a CRO role?
Yes, but nationals of countries like India and China face per-country annual limits that create priority-date backlogs, sometimes running years into the past. You can still begin the PERM and I-140 process to lock in a priority date as early as possible. During the waiting period, you may remain in the U.S. on other nonimmigrant status while your case advances through the queue.