Chief Risk Officer Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Chief Risk Officer roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or a related field. Many CRO positions also support EB-2 or EB-3 green card pathways. Financial institutions, insurance companies, and large corporates sponsor regularly.
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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 Chief Risk Officer Jobs
Frame your credentials around quantifiable risk outcomes
CRO candidates who document specific risk frameworks they've built, regulatory audits they've passed, and capital exposure they've reduced give employers concrete evidence for the specialty occupation case USCIS requires on the I-129 petition.
Target regulated industries with dedicated sponsorship infrastructure
Banks, insurance carriers, and asset managers file LCAs regularly for senior risk roles because regulators require credentialed CROs. These employers already have immigration counsel on retainer, so your sponsorship request triggers a known process, not a new one.
Verify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
CRO titles span DOL wage levels from Level III to Level IV depending on scope. Run the OFLC Wage Search for your metro before negotiations so you can confirm the offered salary meets the LCA requirement and doesn't create a compliance problem for your employer.
Use Migrate Mate to find employers with verified LCA filing history
Searching Migrate Mate surfaces employers with documented H-1B LCA filings for senior risk and compliance roles, so you spend your time on companies already comfortable sponsoring CRO-level positions rather than educating employers new to the process.
Get your credentials evaluated before the offer stage
If your risk management degree came from outside the U.S., have a NACES-approved evaluation completed before you're in offer negotiations. Delays waiting on credential evaluations can push your I-129 filing past LCA certification windows and complicate your start date.
Clarify PERM labor certification timelines with your employer early
If your employer plans to sponsor a green card through EB-2 or EB-3, PERM recruitment and DOL review typically adds 12 to 18 months before the I-140 petition is even filed. Knowing this timeline upfront lets you plan H-1B extensions to bridge the gap.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Chief Risk Officer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS treats CRO positions as specialty occupations because they normally require at least a bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a closely related field. The employer must demonstrate this degree requirement in the job description and the LCA. Generalist management backgrounds without a relevant degree field can create RFE risk, so the job posting language matters.
Which visa types are realistic for a Chief Risk Officer seeking U.S. sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common path for CROs entering the U.S. workforce. Australian nationals can pursue the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and renews indefinitely. TN visa status is available to Canadian and Mexican nationals if the role fits a qualifying USMCA profession. For CROs with international recognition or publications in risk management, the O-1A for extraordinary ability is worth exploring with an immigration attorney.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor CROs rather than just saying they're open to it?
Migrate Mate shows employers with verified LCA filing history for senior risk and compliance roles, so you can identify companies that have actually gone through the H-1B or E-3 process for positions like yours. That's more reliable than relying on a job posting that says 'visa sponsorship available' without any track record behind it.
Does my risk management experience substitute for a degree if I'm applying for H-1B sponsorship?
USCIS allows three years of relevant work experience to substitute for one year of a bachelor's degree, so a candidate without a formal degree can still qualify if they have 12 or more years of progressive risk management experience. The employer and immigration attorney must document this equivalency carefully in the I-129 filing. USCIS scrutinizes experience-based specialty occupation claims more heavily than degree-based ones.
How does the H-1B annual cap and lottery affect CRO hiring timelines?
Most CRO roles are with for-profit employers subject to the H-1B cap, so hiring is tied to the annual registration period. H-1B selection rules have changed in recent years, and USCIS updates its selection mechanics periodically. If you're already in H-1B status with another employer, you can transfer to a new employer once the new petition is filed, without waiting for a new cap slot. USCIS publishes current guidance on its website.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Chief Risk Officer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.