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Risk Manager

Flow Traders is a market making firm headquatered in Amsterdam.

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Risk Manager

Flow Traders is looking for a Risk Manager to join our Operations & Control team in our Amsterdam office. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit!

In this role, you will make sure that the business runs within the firm’s risk appetite by means of implementing controls, operating procedures and monitoring of business processes. The Risk Manager will execute (technology) risk assessments, identify emerging risks and make sure that the business remains within set boundaries. Together with the other Risk Manager, you will translate risk into quantitative measures & limits and provide standards for secure internal and external tooling.

 

What You Will Do

  • Design and implement efficient and effective operating procedures that meet the objectives of the Crypto, Currency and Commodity focus group
  • Execute business and technology risks assessments and timely identify and communicate emerging risks and remedies
  • Draft and execute operating procedures that ensures security of the firm’s Digital Assets
  • Perform platform, protocol and smart contract (credit) risk assessments
  • Monitor market and credit risk limits and escalate limit breaches
  • Execute controls to ensure the integrity and completeness of data and processes

 

What You Need to Succeed

  • Master’s degree and 3+ years of (technology) risk management experience
  • Willingness to learn new things and ability to do own research. As Digital Assets is a relative new field there will be a lot of learning on the job
  • High level of responsibility and ownership
  • Keen interest in Financial Markets and Digital Assets
  • A team player that is able to communicate effectively both internally and externally
  • Analytical mindset with a keen eye for process improvements and efficiency
  • Information security certification and/or post-master RC/RE degree is a strong plus
  • Strong Excel, SQL and a programming language such as Python is a strong plus
  • Data savvy
  • Fluent level of English

 

Recruitment Process

  1. Submit your application
  2. Motivational Interview
  3. Interview with our Operations team 
  4. Final (In-person) Interview

 

What We Offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer a competitive salary, an annual discretionary profit share and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

  • Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
  • Our own company boat (Amsterdam)
  • In-house gym and sessions with our nutritionist or personal trainer
  • In-house Bar and Lounge with an arcade, table tennis, billiards table and game consoles
  • Daily catered lunch, amazing coffee and a fully stocked kitchen and snack bar
  • Weekly chair massages
  • Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
  • Global rotations between our offices worldwide
  • and more!

 

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.