Risk Manager Equities
Serve as the operational risk partner for the New York office, monitoring exposures, limits, controls, scenarios, and exceptions while coordinating with trading, operations, clearing, treasury, technology, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Set and monitor exposure limits and guardrails
- Operate risk controls and alerting
- Investigate, escalate, and document exceptions
- Monitor factor, sector, liquidity, and correlation exposures
- Review scenario and stress outputs
- Perform daily and intraday risk monitoring
- Apply US equity market microstructure knowledge
- Liaise with prime brokers, clearing firms, and exchanges
- Triage trade-lifecycle issues
- Query firm datasets and automate reporting
Requirements
- At least 7 years of equities-focused risk or trading experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Operational risk knowledge across the trade lifecycle
- Prime brokerage and clearing knowledge
- Margin and financing knowledge
- Short inventory and locates knowledge
- Market access controls knowledge
- Exchange connectivity and trading systems knowledge
- Factor model and VaR experience
- US equity market microstructure knowledge
- Python
- SQL
- Bloomberg
- Advanced Excel
- Ability to communicate effectively with traders and technologists
- Availability for onsite work in New York and occasional off-hours support
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer-paid group term life and AD&D insurance
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation and paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness programs