Manager - Risk Management - Global High Frequency Trading Firm

GURGAON

MANAGER, RISK

The role is to enhance the management of strategic, regulatory and financial across the global enterprise. In particular they will have primary responsibility for developing models and approaches to analyze financial risks. In addition they will assist in documenting and assessing strategic, reputational and regulatory risks to the business.

They will assess, design and implement models, data and technology, and reporting related to markets and trading portfolios.

This role will be expected to identify trends and disruptors that could impact competitive advantage, market position, and long-term performance; enhance and protect brand and reputation value by sensing threats, seizing opportunities, shaping perceptions and measuring outcomes; and prepare for, respond to, and recover from crisis events, including crisis monitoring, execution of crisis plans, and crisis communications.

In response to the changing regulatory environment, they will collaborate with the compliance officers to develop strategies to anticipate, and adapt to regulatory changes and anticipate/manage risks to the company's current and proposed businesses.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Assessing, documenting, prioritizing and mitigating risks across the global enterprise. Working with business managers to catalog sources of risk and evaluate them based on factors such as probability, impact, speed of onset etc.

- Develop and manage computer models to assess trading risks, both to clients and to proprietary trading portfolios.

- Work collaboratively with the risk team and broader business to create necessary regulatory reports relating to risk management.

- Participate in other business improvement and analytical tasks as assigned by management

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Successful candidates will have the following attributes:

- 7-10 years of relevant work experience preferred in:

- Risk Management and Financial/Economic Modeling

- Financial risk (credit, market, liquidity, treasury, capital management)

- Strategic Risk (enterprise, operational) / Regulatory Compliance Risk

Data analytics and technology

- Graduating with an Undergraduate or Graduate Degree in Finance, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics or related field. Degree in financial mathematics is strongly preferred. Programming / modeling skills strongly desired.

- 5+ years demonstrated experience with financial modelling

FRM highly preferred

- Strong academic results in finance, economics, mathematics, computer science, law, management and/or risk management courses;

- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, that allow you engage with staff across the company and synthesize and present findings in a productive and professional manner.

- Self-starter with the initiative and ability to work independently and as part of large solution teams;

- Proven ability to work in unstructured environments including the ability to develop and present new ideas as well as conceptualize new approaches and solutions;

- Ability and willingness to travel. Desirable that the applicant possesses a valid passport.