Senior Risk Manager

NEXT Ventures; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

NEXT Ventures is seeking a Senior Risk Manager to lead the Trading & Risk Management Department, accountable for risk analytics across CFD, Futures, and the upcoming Crypto vertical.

The role combines dealing-desk analytical leadership with investigation oversight, bridging flow analysis, abuse detection, and rule enforcement while guiding cross-product investigations and decision-making under pressure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in trading risk, brokerage risk, dealing, FCM/futures supervision, or trade surveillance—leadership experience required.
• Proven track record of leading investigations or risk analytics teams.
• Multi-asset exposure across CFD/FX, futures, and crypto readiness.

Responsibilities

• Own risk and investigation strategy across CFD, Futures, and Crypto.
• Lead and mentor Investigation Leads and Senior Analysts across products.
• Drive playbook, escalation criteria, and evidence standards; standardise risk automation.
• Represent the department in cross-functional forums with Product, Tech, Marketing, and Leadership.
• Provide input for rule calibration, platform configuration decisions, and KPI maturity.

Skills

Experience in trading risk

Leadership experience

Quantitative analysis

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

BI analytics tools familiarity

Education

Preferred degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics

Tools

Excel

SQL

Python/R

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Who We Are

NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and movement becomes momentum. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world's most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm—220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.

Your Role in Our Mission

The Senior Risk Manager is the senior leader of NEXT Ventures’s Trading & Risk Management Department ─ accountable for the firm’s investigative and risk analytical function across all product lines: CFD, Futures, and our upcoming Crypto vertical.

This role unifies dealing-desk analytical leadership with investigation oversight, serving as the operational bridge between flow analysis, abuse detection, and rule enforcement ─ ensuring coherent judgment from book-level pattern detection through to account-level case resolution. You are a single point of cross-product analytical and investigative leadership for NEXT Ventures.

The ideal candidate combines dealing-desk heritage with investigation leadership experience — someone who moves between the trading floor and the analytics function with equal confidence, reads aggregate flow with instinct, and structures investigations with discipline. You think in populations before individual cases, pull the thread on data anomalies until the full story is clear across trading, identity, and payment behaviour, and translate findings into business decisions rather than observations.

You anticipate rather than react. You identify problems before they become losses. You think across products and asset classes naturally, surface uncomfortable findings without waiting to be asked, and lead decisively in environments where the playbook is still being written.

How You'll Make An Impact

Cross-Product Risk Leadership

• Own the firm's risk and investigation strategy across all product lines, ensuring methodology coherence and shared standards across CFD, Futures, and Crypto
• Translate aggregate book intelligence into actionable risk design, risk threshold recommendations, and investigation prioritisation
• Set the analytical agenda — what gets monitored, how patterns are surfaced, and how findings flow into product and commercial decisions
• Bring an industry-level view of how proprietary trading operates across CFD, Futures, and Crypto, and apply it to our risk posture
• Benchmark internal trader behaviour against broader market trends and competitor product structures
• Represent the department in cross-functional forums covering Product, Tech, Marketing, Community, and Partner stakeholders
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the global FX, CFD, futures, and crypto prop trading industries — tracking evolving rule structures, challenge designs, payout models, competitor product moves, trader sentiment, and emerging market developments

Functional Leadership & Operations

• Lead Investigation Leads across CFD and Futures, setting performance standards, methodology, and case quality benchmarks
• Direct, mentor, and retain a cross-product team of Investigation Leads and Senior Analysts — establishing supervision routines, performance standards, and career paths, actively coaching on advanced pattern recognition and decision-making under pressure
• Drive and standardise the firm’s investigation playbook across CFD and Futures — defining case escalation criteria, evidence standards, verdict frameworks, and communication protocols, ensuring all methodologies are documented to prevent knowledge silos
• Drive automation and tooling improvements — dashboards, monitoring systems, alerting frameworks — to scale oversight as volume grows
• Partner with HR and the Head of Department on hiring, calibration, and succession planning across the function

Risk Framework and Rule Design

• Propose the architecture of the abuse detection framework, risk parameters, and behavioural constraints that govern the trader population across products
• Conduct quantitative simulations and historical performance audits to calibrate risk filters, balancing protection of firm capital with trader experience
• Identify platform vulnerabilities and exploit patterns and recommend countermeasures across CFD, Futures, and Crypto environments
• Recommend risk policies on product lines, platforms, and competitor strategies to the Head of Department
• Drive risk automation, dashboard development, and KPI maturity across the investigation and analytics functions
• Provide evidence-backed input to teams on rule calibration, challenge design, and platform configuration decisions
• Represent the department in cross-functional forums where risk evidence informs business strategy

What You Bring

• 7+ years of experience in trading risk, brokerage risk, dealing, FCM/futures supervision, or trade surveillance — with at least 4 years in a senior or leadership capacity
• Demonstrated experience operating at or alongside a dealing desk: reading aggregate flow, managing book-level exposure, and interpreting population-scale trader behaviour
• Proven track record of leading investigation, surveillance, or risk analytics teams and directly managing senior contributors
• Multi-asset experience: meaningful exposure to both CFD/FX and futures markets, with willingness and capability to extend into Crypto
• Advanced quantitative capability — Excel, SQL, Python/R or equivalent — and the ability to direct technical teams in building the right analytical infrastructure
• Excellent judgment, integrity, and the ability to make decisive, high-impact decisions under pressure
• Strong communication skills across investigation teams, dealing desks, product, marketing, tech, and senior leadership
• Preferred degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a field related to Risk

Your X-Factor

• Direct experience in the proprietary trading firm or trader evaluation industry
• Familiarity with both CFD platforms (MT4, MT5, cTrader, Match Trader) and futures platforms (NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, CQG)
• Experience with BI and visualisation tools (Metabase, Sigma, Looker, Tableau, Power BI)
• Hands-on experience with Excel, SQL, Python/R or equivalent to extract data and analyse trader behaviour from large datasets
• Exposure to CFDs, Futures, Crypto, and other financial instruments
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate analytical and investigative work — someone who moves faster and sees further because of how they use AI, not just someone who is aware of it

Your Journey After Applying

• 30-minute HR Interview with the Talent Acquisition team
• 45-minute Problem Solving Interview (department front-line manager)
• 60-minute Bar Raiser Interview (Top Management)

Why Join NEXT

This is a rare opportunity to own risk and investigation leadership across one of the fastest-growing prop trading platforms in the world. You will not be managing a steady-state function — you will be building the analytical infrastructure, leading the team, and shaping the framework that protects the firm as it scales into new asset classes. The problems are hard, the scale is real, and the mandate is yours.

At NEXT Ventures, we believe the right talent fuels breakthrough innovation. Join our team of bold thinkers where finance meets transformation.

Experience level: Mid Career