Senior Market Risk Manager
Flow Traders provides continuous liquidity across global financial markets through technology-enabled market making and trading services.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders helps institutional clients and market participants access liquidity across multiple asset classes through continuous market making services. You can trade ETPs, digital assets, fixed income, commodities, and FX products with enhanced execution quality. Flow Traders reduces trading costs and increases market efficiency through proprietary technology and global presence.
Skills
About the Role
You will provide second-line oversight of market risk across trading activities. You will partner with trading desks to understand strategies and exposures, enhance risk limits and stress testing, investigate risk breaches and P&L anomalies, and support regulatory governance, audits, and risk reporting. You will also apply automation and AI to improve risk processes, independently challenge new strategies, and mentor junior colleagues.
Requirements
- 6–10 years of relevant experience in market risk, front-office risk, or trading.
- Hands-on experience across at least two core asset classes: ETFs, bonds, FX, digital assets, or options.
- Experience in an IFR/IFD or equivalent CRR/Basel environment, including ICARAP or similar processes.
- Strong understanding of VaR, stress testing, Greeks, and concentration metrics.
- Familiarity with options and derivatives, particularly for ETFs and digital assets.
- Proficiency in SQL, Excel, and Python.
- Interest in applying AI tools to risk processes and operational efficiency.
- University degree in a quantitative field such as finance, mathematics, physics, engineering, or econometrics.
- Excellent communication with traders and senior management.
- Fluency in English.
Responsibilities
- Partner with trading desks to understand strategies, exposures, and emerging risks across ETFs, fixed income, FX, digital assets, and options.
- Support the development and oversight of market risk appetite, limits, stress testing, and intraday controls.
- Monitor portfolio risk, investigate breaches and P&L anomalies, and drive risk mitigation initiatives.
- Design and enhance cross-asset stress testing, risk analytics, and monitoring methodologies.
- Leverage AI and automation to improve risk monitoring, reporting, and operational efficiency.
- Support regulatory requirements, governance processes, audits, and risk committee reporting.
- Independently challenge new trading strategies and mentor junior team members.
Benefits
- Flow Academy.
- Opportunities to attend domain-related conferences.
- Daily catered lunch.
- Coffee, stocked kitchen, and snack bar.
- In-house bar and lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles.
- Company boat.
- In-house gym.
- Sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer.
- Bi-weekly massages.
- Annual company trip.
- Company events.
- Global rotations across worldwide offices.
- Annual discretionary profit share.
- Comprehensive benefits.
