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Risk Associate

IMC Financial Markets is a proprietary trading firm and market maker for various financial instruments listed on exchanges throughout the world.

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Risk Associate

Risk Management at IMC

IMC is currently looking for a Risk Associate to be a part of the Risk Management Team. We are looking for someone who can bring risk management, trading and technical expertise while at the same time a critical, quantitative and proactive hands-on approach. It will be your challenge to support the risk assessment and management responsibilities for market, credit, liquidity, operational, and regulatory risks. In addition, you will be responsible for the technical implementation of various risk management intraday monitoring tools and reports. To excel in this role, you will use your experience, analytical skills, and technical ability to add value, not bureaucracy to the business. 

What you’ll do:

As a Risk Associate at IMC, you’ll Identify and manage the risks in IMC’s existing and new trading strategies across various markets. More specifically, you will be responsible for:

  • Work closely with key stakeholders across our global business including trading teams, technology, and numerous back-office functions (e.g. treasury, clearing, business development, compliance).

  • Assist Compliance with any risk-related regulatory matters.

  • You will be working closely with the European Risk Management team, to make sure you will learn and adopt global risk best practices.

  • Partner with the European Risk Management team to:

    • Identify, monitor, and mitigate known and potential sources of risk to the firm.

    • Manage the firm’s electronic trading risk (day-to-day operations, trading team requests).

    • Further develop the firm’s market risk toolkit.

    • Use a technical skillset (e.g. Python) to drive automation solutions and risk analytics.

Requirements:

  • Strong academic background in quantitative field (quant finance, econometrics, mathematics)

  • 3 – 5 years of experience. Good to have at least 2 years in a Risk Management position in a Trading / FO role

  • Previous exposure to exchange-traded products like equities, futures, options

  • Strong knowledge of risk simulation techniques for complex portfolios, and experience with risk models and Python

  • Strong technical skills with knowledge of data processing and analysis technologies

  • Ability to communicate complex information and ideas to key business stakeholders

  • High level of Integrity

  • The ideal candidate has demonstrable interest and ideally experience in managing electronic trading risk at an HFT.

IMC: JOIN A WORLD-CLASS GLOBAL MARKET MAKER

IMC is a world-renowned market maker with offices in Europe, the US and Asia-Pacific. We use algorithmic trading and advanced technology to buy and sell securities across multiple trading venues. Our vital role, at the centre of the financial markets, provides liquidity for buyers and sellers worldwide.

In the late 1980s, IMC quickly identified the importance of technology in the fast-evolving trading environment. Our passion for innovation continues to drive us today. Although our company has grown rapidly over recent decades, we still approach our work with the same entrepreneurial spirit, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and innovation. We like our people to think for themselves and we give them the responsibility and support they need to make an impact. This means real work as well as dedicated training programmes and mentors.

While we work hard, we also have a lot of fun – whether solving complex problems or taking part in team-building, leisure and sporting activities. IMC also enables its employees to contribute to a better society through our foundation.