Manager Equity Market Risk & Electronic Trading

Title: Manager Equity Market Risk & Electronic Trading

Office Status: Hybrid New York, NY (4 Days Onsite)

Base Salary: Up to $225k + Bonus

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a quantitative market risk opportunity at a well-established, high-performance trading firm, focused on providing risk oversight for Americas electronic trading and equity market risk activities. The role sits close to the trading floor working directly with Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Core Engineering teams to resolve trading issues, enhance risk controls, and conduct ongoing margin and back-testing analysis. It's an ideal fit for a buy-side quantitative risk professional with equity market risk and electronic trading experience who brings strong Python skills and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide risk oversight for Americas trading activities with a primary focus on electronic trading and equity market risk
• Assist the regional Head of Risk in overseeing, managing, and modeling risk across regional trading activities
• Work closely with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Core Engineering teams, and Prime Brokers to effectively respond to and resolve trading-related issues
• Assist Risk Management and Risk Technology teams in enhancing trading risk controls and mitigating operational risk
• Conduct ad-hoc risk and margin analysis as well as regular back-testing to support ongoing risk oversight
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve existing processes and challenge the status quo