Head of CFD Trading

Epic Markets; Dubai; Sur place; AED 450 000 - 900 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Epic Markets in Dubai seeks a Head of CFD Trading to lead a 24/7 dealing team and oversee the firm’s CFD trading book, ensuring client flow, market risks, and hedging align with strategy.

Reporting to the Head of Quantitative CFD Trading, you will collaborate with quantitative research and technology teams to optimize exposures, hedging, and automation while upholding strict risk governance across global markets.

Qualifications

• Experience in CFD dealing, market making, or leveraged trading across multiple asset classes.
• Proven ability to supervise a 24/7 or multi-shift dealing desk with real-time risk oversight.
• Collaboration with quantitative researchers and developers to analyze client flow and implement hedging strategies.
• Hands-on technical literacy in data analysis tools (e.g., Python, SQL).

Responsabilités

• Recruit, lead, and mentor a 24/7 global dealing team.
• Maintain continuous oversight of live trading book, exposures, and margin utilization.
• Direct hedging across asset classes and liquidity providers; assess costs and execution quality.
• Define procedures, controls, and escalation protocols for manual and automated trading.
• Partner with Quantitative Research to translate dealing challenges into research and risk models.
• Work with tech to define risk dashboards and automate workflows with human oversight.
• Establish KPIs and scale trading infrastructure for growth and broader asset coverage.

Connaissances

CFD trading

Market-making

Risk management

Python

SQL

Data analysis

Team leadership

Outils

Trading platforms

Automation tools

Risk dashboards

Description du poste

Founded by two former Citadel Securities executives and backed by prominent institutional investors, Epic Markets is building a next-generation global multi-asset brokerage. Combining institutional market-making expertise, advanced quantitative trading capabilities, and a powerful global network of investors and industry leaders, we are building a technology-first brokerage to bring institutional-grade pricing and liquidity to retail traders worldwide. We’re well funded, committed to our partners for the long term, deeply networked, and moving fast. If you’re interested in building a leading trading desk from the ground up, this is the place to do it.

We are seeking a Head of CFD Trading to build out and lead our dealing team with responsibility for the day-to-day management and monitoring and control of the firm's CFD trading book. The team will provide continuous 24 hour coverage across global markets, ensuring that client flow, market risks and hedging activities are actively managed in line with the firm's trading strategies and risk framework. Reporting to the Head of Quantitative CFD Trading, you will also work closely with the quantitative research and technology teams, combining practical dealing expertise with data-driven analysis to improve the way the firm manages its exposures, executes hedges and operates its trading desk.

This is an opportunity to help build a modern dealing function from a greenfield perspective. We are looking for someone who understands the realities of CFD brokerage but is not constrained by traditional dealing models. The successful candidate will be comfortable challenging established practices, collaborating with quantitative researchers and technology engineers, and implementing innovative approaches to book management, risk monitoring and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, lead, and mentor a 24/7 global dealing team, fostering a culture of accountability, analytical thinking, and sound judgment.
• Maintain continuous oversight of the firm's live trading book, CFD exposures, concentration risks, counterparty margin utilization, and market conditions to operate within agreed limits.
• Responsible for direct hedging activities across asset classes, liquidity providers, and instruments, constantly evaluating execution quality, hedging efficiency, and total trading costs.
• Respond decisively to market volatility, liquidity disruptions, abnormal client flow, or operational incidents, establishing clear escalation protocols and post-event analysis.
• Establish, document, and enforce clear dealing procedures, decision-making authorities, operational controls, and override/exception policies for both manual and automated trading.
• Partner with the Quantitative Research team to translate dealing challenges into research, analyze client flow toxicity, and validate quantitative risk models, pricing strategies, and decision-support tools.
• Work with technology and quant teams to define requirements for risk dashboards and automate rules-based workflows, ensuring strong human oversight over systematic processes.
• Establish KPIs, monitor operational performance, refine data reporting, and continuously scale trading infrastructure to support business growth and expanding asset coverage.

Candidate Profile

• Proven track record in CFD dealing, market-making, or leveraged trading across multiple asset classes (FX, indices, commodities, equities, or digital assets), with deep knowledge of margining, exposure management, and liquidity-provider execution.
• Significant experience supervising a 24/7 or multi-shift dealing desk, driving accountability, high operational standards, and real-time oversight of trading exposures.
• Demonstrated aptitude for partnering with quantitative researchers and developers to analyze client flow toxicity, test risk models, and implement systematic hedging strategies.
• Experience refining trading systems, risk dashboards, and monitoring tools, with hands-on technical literacy in data analysis tools (e.g., Python, SQL, statistical modeling) is desirable. The ability to leverage AI tools in order to increase efficiency and improve systems is also preferred.
• Highly analytical approach that uses data and evidence, rather than intuition alone, to drive decisions, question traditional practices, and embrace automation and modern book-management techniques.
• Ability to navigate fast-moving market volatility and unexpected client behavior within established risk limits, balancing discretionary judgment, systematic adherence, and clear escalation protocols.
• Strong communicator capable of bridging the gap between trading specialists and technical teams, with a growth-oriented mindset focused on continuously scaling processes and infrastructure.

The Head of CFD Trading will be a key contributor to the firm's overall success, working in close partnership with the Head of Quantitative CFD Trading and the quantitative research team to continually improve the way the business manages risk and operates its trading book.