There are two roles needed to be filled on the E-Trading Risk team at a fast growing established prop shop. This role is located in New York or Chicago where they are looking for a highly motivated individual with a background in E-Trading, Algo, and risk. This would be a hybrid schedule where you would be reporting up to the Head E-Trading Risk. The team is fairly lean where you would be exposed across the board to provide risk management oversight of the firm's electronic executions across all asset classes and work with a wide array of stakeholder groups across the firm including business management, quant, trading, technology teams, and other control functions.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct ad hoc reviews, enhancing tools, templates, processes to better serve evolving business needs across the firm.
- Promote and facilitate communications with key stakeholders across functions
- Review and certify existing and new electronic trading systems and trading algorithms.
- Provide risk oversight, support, and advisory for the electronic trading activities of the firm
- Liaise with various trading and technology groups to manage elevated activities
Qualifications:
- 2+ years experience in electronic trading, algos/ electronic trading development, algos/ electronic trading risk management / market risk
- Strong interpersonal, team-player, communications, and written skills
- Technical understanding of complex electronic trading platforms and execution risk management systems
- Familiar with financial products across Equites and FICC
