Trading Risk Manager

Summary

Join our Quant Trading team as a core member of the Trading Risk Control team to drive the overall development and execution of the risk management strategy for the Global Trading Business.

Requirements

• Degree or above in a quantitative discipline
• Professional qualification such as CFA and FRM an added advantage
• Minimum 5 years of risk management experience in a quantitative trading firm, investment bank or hedge fund
• Hands-on experience developing risk management procedures and building risk monitoring tools
• Proficient in Python and SQL, knowledge in any other programming language is a plus
• Good organizational and interpersonal skills
• Think critically and strive for continuous improvement
• Passionate about cryptocurrency and blockchain

Responsibilities

• Drive the overall development and execution of the risk management strategy for the Global Trading Business
• Develop a sound understanding of trading strategies, implement appropriate risk metrics and quantitative analytics on trading performance
• Responsible for monitoring, analyzing and reporting of trading desks’ risk exposures, real-time monitoring of limits, reporting of breaches and actively following up on actions to resolve breaches with trading desks, and recommending risk mitigation strategies
• Develop proper risk management policies, procedures to assess, monitor and report material risks, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory requirements for current and new products
• Work with quant developers to build risk modeling tools to develop and maintain risk indicators and threshold settings based on quantitative analytics, as well as dashboards to monitor trading risk real-time