Risk Manager APAC
Risk Manager APAC
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Job Description
The Risk Team at IMC operates closely with our Trading and Technology teams to manage and mitigate the risks associated with IMCs trading strategies across various products exchanges and geographies. The Risk Team is responsible for identifying and assessing risks determining adequate controls and developing risk metrics and tools to monitor these risks. The teams areas of responsibility are market credit liquidity and operational risk.
To strengthen alignment and adoption of best risk management practices across the globe we seek to hire a Risk Manager operating in our Amsterdam office but providing oversight function over our APAC night trading (during European business hours). In this role you will report directly to APAC Head of Risk (located in Sydney) and have a dotted reporting line to Global Head of Market Credit & Liquidity risk located in Amsterdam.
We are looking for someone who is a self starter excited to work in a fast-paced cross time zone environment to provide a link between our Amsterdam based trading team and APAC based risk management this role you will split your time between daily risk monitoring and helping our global risk team improve risk framework. Proactive attitude ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders and desire to solve complicated problems creatively are keys to success. You will be required to travel to our Sydney office at least on a bi-annual basis in addition to your onboarding which will be held in Sydney for the first 3 months after your start date.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Risk Identification: Collaborate with trading and tech teams on the design and implementation of relevant stress tests and scenario analysis for various Derivatives and Delta1 strategies. Identify risks and constructively challenge different trading ideas.
- Daily Monitoring: Ensure relevant risk measures controls and processes are in place running daily monitoring and reporting processes to stakeholders accurately and on time. Stay on top any financial market developments to help traders assess their impact on our risk exposures and capital requirements.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all relevant regulatory capital requirements are met and our trading is always in compliance with various exchange and regulatory limits. Investigate and provide support when necessary.
- Risk Framework: Proactively assist in implementing and improving our risk policies and methodologies together with the Global Risk Management team. Be involved in global risk projects helping to steer the direction for our global risk framework.
- Reporting: Prepare regular and ad-hoc market risk reports and analysis in python providing detailed information and analysis to trading & management.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Finance Mathematics Statistics Econometrics Engineering or a similar field. Professional certifications (e.g. FRM CFA) are an added bonus.
- Between 3-5 years of work experience in a risk management role at a proprietary trading firm hedge fund bank or similar.
- Experience with analysing and managing the risks associated with portfolios of exchange traded derivates and equities.
- Familiarity with concepts like exchange margin and capital requirements
- Proficiency in Python programming and knowledge of SQL is essential.
- Ability to manage projects that span multiple stakeholders teams and locations.
- Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills with the ability to solve problems creatively and proactively.
- Ability to prioritize act and perform successfully in a fast-moving and high-pressured environment.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative high-performance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
