Risk Manager

Our risk management team operates closely with the trading and technology teams in order to manage the inherent risks in IMC’s trading strategies across various products and markets. We are looking for someone who can bring risk management expertise with a critical, quantitative, and proactive hands-on approach. It will be your challenge to support the assessment and management of market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks. To excel in this role, you will use your experience, analytical skills, and technical ability to add value, not bureaucracy, to the business.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• As Risk Manager at IMC, you’ll assist in managing the day-to-day risk management functions, including monitoring and analyzing market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks.
• Monitor market risk at both the portfolio and sub portfolio levels and discuss key exposures with trading leads.
• Analyse financial market developments and help build, revise, and enhance risk methodologies and processes for IMC’s trading strategies.
• Develop and enhance real-time risk monitoring and reporting tools for IMC’s key risks while ensuring that the team’s technical solutions are robust and high-quality.
• Utilise Python-based tools and libraries for stress testing, and scenario analysis as well as generally designing and contributing to local risk management tooling
• Collaborate with global risk, trading, and software development team members to design and employ risk controls in IMC’s execution and strategy software.

Your Skills and Experience:

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in the financial risk management field with a strong quantitative and technical background
• Experience with analysing and managing the risks associated with portfolios of equities, futures, and options
• Knowledge of exchange-traded derivatives with an emphasis on their risk characteristics
• Familiarity with exchange margin and broker-dealer capital requirements
• First-class analytical skills and a desire to solve complicated problems creatively
• A proactive attitude and an out-of-the-box thinker who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Technical proficiency in a programming language for Risk analysis (Python, MATLAB or R)

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.