Overview:
An International Hedge Fund is looking to hire an Options Risk Manager to their new Systematic Trading business. This individual will be responsible with working directly with leadership on building out their risk frameworks and risk platform, integrating pre-trade controls, and supporting the overall buildout of their entire risk framework from the ground up.
The firm doesn't have a large risk team, so you will be joining a very lean team as an individual contributor, consistently working with front office quants through each project this individual will be responsible for.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the build-out of the business by developing tools and systems required to monitor, manage and analyze the risk associated with systematic strategies to be developed in the future
- Enforcing trader risk and capital allocation guidelines
- Developing tools focused on pre- and post-trade risk analytics, as well as monitoring and alerting tools
- Integrating pre-trade controls and post-trade actionable risk metrics
- Daily risk monitoring of the systematic options trading business
Qualifications:
- 7+ Years of Experience across risk management and trading of listed options
- Experience in Risk Management of options strategies, focusing on single stock equity and systematic option strategies
- Technical and programming background (Python, R, SQL, C++)
- Deep knowledge of options pricing and risk models, with experience building or supporting options risk platforms
