Senior Risk Manager - Options
A leading Proprietary Trading Firm is hiring a Senior Risk Manager to join in the Chicago office.
This is a strategic growth hire. Front office teams continue to hire traders and expand into new markets/products, and as they scale so must the risk team.
The firm actively trades a variety of traditional and digital assets: single stock equity/index/ETF options, interest rate options and fixed income derivatives, crypto spot and derivatives to name a few. This hire will get broad exposure from day one, and even for a senior risk manager, there is plenty of room to grow across asset classes.
The Head of Risk is looking for an experienced manager who comes from a front office market risk environment on the buy side or sell side. This person must be able to challenge traders when appropriate, but most importantly, someone who can identify opportunities for the desk to take more smart risk. Commercial mindset and decisive communication are must-haves for success in this role.
You'll mainly interact with traders and the risk team but will also partner with quant researchers, developers, and engineers to solve technical problems and enhance risk and trading systems.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of market risk or trading experience
- Proficiency in Python/SQL
- Expertise risk managing futures and options; equity or rates background is preferred
- Commercial mindset and experience in a front office environment (risk management or trading)
- Familiarity with liquidity + margin requirements, counterparty risk management, and broker-dealer regulations
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