We are recruiting for a Senior Associate/ Director 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
Requirements:
- Degree or above in a quantitative discipline, with professional qualification such as CPA, CFA, FRM an added advantage
- Minimum 3 years of relevant working experience such as Product Control, Market Risk Management, Model Validation, with hands-on experience
- Broad understanding of financial products, knowledge of crypto products is a plus
- Proficient in Python and SQL
- Strong analytical skills, detailed oriented
- Hands-on, passionate about building, a product owner who can drive an initiative from start to finish
- Passionate about cryptocurrency and blockchain
