Responsibilities:

• Work closely with trading teams, developers, and trading operation department to understand our existing needs to measure and manage risk and sculpt the future
• Cover day to day risk requests, consultations, troubleshoot issues, help trading teams, deal with brokers /exchanges, investigate strategies, monitor pricing exposure, hedging execution and verify trades
• Be able to understand algorithmic trades, identify key risks, and come up with potential risk mitigating solutions
• Design, document, and drive improvements in risk monitoring applications and alerting frameworks
• Leverage programming team to maintain and upgrade the overall risk platform

Requirements:

• 5- 10years of institutional risk management and/or trading experience from a multi-asset proprietary trading firm, multi-strategy hedge fund, asset manager, or investment bank.
• Familiarity with exchange connectivity/trading systems
• Experience with electronic trading risk and algorithmic trading risk
• Knowledge of quantitative finance and an understanding of probability and statistics
• Strong academic record with a Degree (or equivalent) or concentration in a scientific and/or mathematical discipline. Experience or qualifications relating to quantitative finance are highly preferred.
• Comfortable with communicating with broad spectrum of stakeholders, including traders, technical staff, and external parties
• Experience with 3rd party risk management calculation platforms helpful (E.g. Barra, Axioma, or RiskMetrics etc)
• Knowledge of trade practice and country risk