Trading and Risk Advisor — CFD

NEXT Ventures; Dubai; On-site; AED 367,242 - 550,863; Full time

Job summary

NEXT Ventures in Dubai is seeking a Trading and Risk Advisor to lead the CFD trading operations and risk frameworks. The role involves ensuring execution quality and mitigating risks across diverse CFD flows.

The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of trading experience, deep expertise in CFDs, and a strong understanding of risk management strategies. A Bachelor's or Master's in a quantitative discipline is essential. The company values integrity, transparency, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in trading, especially in regulated environments.
• Deep knowledge of CFDs, market making, and trading risk roles.
• Experience in A-book / B-book risk frameworks and hedging strategies.

Responsibilities

• Advise on CFD trading operations, execution quality, and risk frameworks.
• Design and oversee risk management frameworks for CFD trading.
• Manage liquidity provider relationships and improve trading infrastructure.

Skills

Trading operations expertise

Regulatory knowledge

Python programming

SQL for data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering

Job description

Who We Are

NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and momentum becomes movement. 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

Trading and Risk Advisor (CFD) bringing senior, hands‑on leadership to the design, oversight, and continuous improvement of trading operations across NEXT Ventures' CFD activity. Partnering with Trading, Quant, Engineering, Risk, and executive leadership to deliver execution quality, dealing oversight, and risk frameworks that scale with our global growth. Ensuring production‑grade resilience, governance excellence, and operational rigor across multi‑asset CFD flows.

Trading Operations & Execution Oversight

• Advise on the end‑to‑end CFD trading operations stack across FX, indices, commodities, equity CFDs, and crypto CFDs.
• Oversee electronic execution logic, pricing engines, and aggregation of liquidity from multiple liquidity providers.
• Define and monitor execution quality and market‑impact KPIs; recommend improvements to spread, slippage, fill‑rate performance and risk frameworks.
• Advise on A‑book / B‑book routing logic, internalisation strategy, and the conditions under which client flow is hedged externally.
• Translate trading strategy into detailed execution playbooks, monitoring tools, and operational guidelines for dealing and trading teams.
• Define and implement a customer profile based on trading strategies on multiple levels.

Risk Framework Design & Production Oversight

• Design and supervise risk frameworks covering market exposure, abusive trading activities, and execution risk for the CFD book.
• Set and review limits at instrument, asset class, client tier, and book level; advise on stress testing and scenario analysis.
• Advise on hedging strategies for residual exposure, including timing, venue selection, and cost‑of‑hedge analytics.
• Provide oversight of client risk profiles and leverage frameworks.
• Act as the subject‑matter expert for trading and risk infrastructure, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and operational resilience under stress.
• Propose the architecture of the abuse detection framework, risk parameters, and behavioural constraints that govern the trader population.

Liquidity & Risk Infrastructure

• Advise on selection, onboarding, and ongoing review of liquidity providers, prime brokers (PoPs), and technology vendors.
• Support negotiation of commercial and operational terms with LPs and PoPs.
• Recommend improvements to trading infrastructure resilience, monitoring, and incident response.
• Identify platform vulnerabilities and exploit patterns and recommend countermeasures.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 8+ years of progressive trading experience, including significant exposure to senior dealing, market making, or trading risk roles within a regulated brokerage, market maker, or trading firm.
• Deep expertise in CFDs or comparable OTC derivative products across at least two of: FX, indices, commodities, equity CFDs, crypto CFDs.
• Proven track record of running or advising on live execution and risk in production environments — not purely model or research work.
• Direct experience with A‑book / B‑book risk frameworks, hedging strategy, and client flow analysis.
• Strong understanding of electronic execution: aggregation, order routing, latency, mark‑up logic, and post‑trade analytics.
• Working fluency in Python and SQL for trading data analysis, KPI design, and ad‑hoc investigations.
• Experience with regulated entities under at least one of ASIC, CySEC, FCA, DFSA, FSCA, Labuan FSA, SC Malaysia, or comparable regulators.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, adept at navigating executive and cross‑regional complexities.
• High integrity, discretion, and resilience in high‑performance, confidential trading environments.

Your X‑Factor

• Combines market intuition with engineering rigor — designing trading systems that balance speed, control, and resilience.
• Speaks the language of both markets and code, bridging traders, quants, engineers, and risk teams with equal fluency.
• Thrives in complexity — bringing structure and clarity to fast‑moving, multi‑jurisdictional trading environments.
• Champions a culture of operational excellence rooted in transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.