Associate Trading Risk

Our client is recruiting for a Risk Associate to expand our in-business Risk and Reporting control function for the global Quant Trading business. Quant Trading business covers a variety of trading desks across cash, derivatives, volatility trading and others. This role will cover both P&L reporting and Risk monitoring with direct interaction with trading desks, central Finance team and other control functions.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for daily monitoring and reporting of P&L and Risk, with commentaries of key drivers
• Prepare trading performance reports and analyses for senior management
• Contribute to the development of the trading risk management framework, drafting of risk policies and procedures for new and existing businesses, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory requirements
• Perform quantitative risk analysis on market risk (e.g. VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis), with insightful commentaries to traders and senior management
• Set up and review trading limits systematically using scripting tools
• Monitor funding risk and ensure integrity of balance sheet capital funding and usage
• Work with trading desks to implement risk controls and ensure breaches are addressed on a timely basis and properly escalated
• Contribute to enhancing the control environment, work with quant developers to build automated trading controls, scripts and dashboards to monitor trading positions and balances real-time