Risk Manager Equities
Jump Trading is a global trading firm where traders, engineers, and researchers develop trading strategies, models, infrastructure, and systems across asset classes and time horizons.
About Jump Trading
Jump Trading is a global trading firm focused on research-driven trading and the engineering of scalable models, tools, infrastructure, and execution systems. Its operations combine trading, technology, AI/ML, and quantitative research, and it also runs research and talent programs including conference travel grants and a fellowship program.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will serve as the operational risk partner for the New York office. You will monitor exposures, limits, controls, scenarios, and exceptions; investigate and escalate issues; coordinate with trading, operations, clearing, treasury, technology, and compliance; and use Python, SQL, and Excel for analysis and reporting.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of equities-focused risk or trading experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Operational risk knowledge across the trade lifecycle
- Prime brokerage and clearing knowledge
- Margin and financing knowledge
- Short inventory and locates knowledge
- Market access controls knowledge
- Exchange connectivity and trading systems knowledge
- Factor model and VaR experience
- US equity market microstructure knowledge
- Python
- SQL
- Bloomberg
- Advanced Excel
- Ability to communicate effectively with traders and technologists
- Availability for onsite work in New York and occasional off-hours support
Responsibilities
- Set and monitor exposure limits and guardrails
- Operate risk controls and alerting
- Investigate, escalate, and document exceptions
- Monitor factor, sector, liquidity, and correlation exposures
- Review scenario and stress outputs
- Perform daily and intraday risk monitoring
- Apply US equity market microstructure knowledge
- Liaise with prime brokers, clearing firms, and exchanges
- Triage trade-lifecycle issues
- Query firm datasets and automate reporting
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer-paid group term life and AD&D insurance
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation and paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness programs
