Risk Manager

1 Month ago • 2-5 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

The Risk Manager will be responsible for managing day-to-day risk management functions, including monitoring and analyzing market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks. They will utilize Python-based tools for stress testing and scenario analysis, develop real-time risk monitoring tools, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. They will also analyze financial market developments and help build and enhance risk methodologies and processes for IMC’s trading strategies. This role involves working on the trading floor and supporting critical day-to-day risk management activities, involving the monitoring and analysis of markets, credit, liquidity, and operational risks.

Must have:

2-5 years experience in financial risk management with a strong quantitative background.
Experience in FX and Commodity trading in OTC and Exchange-Traded markets.
Technical proficiency in Python, MATLAB or R for Risk analysis.
First-class analytical skills and ability to solve problems creatively.

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Job Details

IMC is currently looking for a Risk Manager to join our growing team in London. Our risk 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.

As a Risk Manager, you operate at the beating heart of our business: on the trading floor of IMC’s London office. Your work supports IMC’s critical day-to-day risk management activities, including the monitoring and analysis of our markets, as well as our credit, liquidity, and operational risks. What happens next is up to you!

Your core responsibilities:

As a Risk Manager at IMC, you’ll assist in managing the day-to-day risk management functions, including monitoring and analysing market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks
Utilise Python-based tools and libraries for stress testing, and scenario analysis as well as generally designing and contributing to local risk management tooling
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
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk management policies
Analyse financial market developments and help build, revise, and enhance risk methodologies and processes for IMC’s trading strategies

Your skills and experience:

2-5 years of relevant professional work experience in a financial risk management field with a strong quantitative and technical background
Experience in FX and Commodity trading in OTC and Exchange-Traded markets
Familiarity with broker-dealer capital requirements, FINRA SIE and Series 57 are a plus
Technical proficiency in a programming language for Risk analysis (Python, MATLAB or R)
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

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.