Financial Risk Manager

CMC Markets; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 extra annual leave days per year (My

Birthday leave

Free annual charity day

Staff trading accounts with best rates

Learning & development programs

Office days in the office (5 days)

Free breakfast cereals & coffee

Wellbeing discounts

Job summary

CMC Markets in Sydney is seeking a Financial Risk Manager to analyse risk across our CFD and Stockbroking businesses. You’ll produce risk metrics, stress tests, and reporting to senior leaders, shaping hedging, liquidity management and responses to volatility.

You will join a small team reporting to Head of Financial Risk Management and Liquidity, collaborate across Dealing, Finance, Treasury and Compliance, and build advanced modelling capabilities while ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years demonstrated experience in financial risk management within a stockbroking, trading, or related environment.
• Strong analytical capabilities with a focus on risk reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of derivatives and financial instruments.
• Advanced Excel skills for complex analysis and modelling.
• Familiarity with CHESS, Palion, GBST, and Iress systems.
• High attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities.
• You must have full working rights in Australia.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and report on key risk metrics and KRIs across CFD and Stockbroking businesses.
• Produce risk reports, dashboards, and management information for senior leaders and risk committees.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance risk models, run market analysis and stress testing.
• Drive improvements in risk reporting and analytics and build new capabilities.
• Collaborate with Dealing, Finance, Treasury, Compliance, and senior management to provide risk insights.
• Support and manage project initiatives within the Financial Risk team.

Skills

Financial risk management

Derivatives knowledge

Advanced Excel

CHESS

Palion

GBST

Iress

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Financial risk qualification

Tools

CHESS

Palion

GBST

Iress

Job description

About the role

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll love contributing to CMC Markets’ company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that’s growing with you, by global expansion and product offering. As a Financial Risk Manager your analysis will reach the desks of senior leaders. Your models will inform how the business hedges positions, manages liquidity, and responds to volatility. In a team of three reporting directly to the Head of Financial Risk Management and Liquidity, there is no middle layer between your work and the decisions it drives. That kind of visibility is rare at this level. You will also build deep technical skills that set you apart in the market. Stress testing, scenario analysis, quantitative modelling, and reporting, this role stretches all of them. CMC's dual CFD and Stockbroking businesses mean the exposures you manage are varied and genuinely complex, giving you breadth that single-product businesses simply cannot offer.

Why you’ll like working here

• Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days, as well as enjoying 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months.
• Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us!
• Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.
• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!
• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.
• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.
• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday.
• Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What you’ll be working on day to day

• Monitor and report on key risk metrics and KRIs across CMC's CFD and Stockbroking businesses, ensuring material exposures are reviewed, approved, and escalated appropriately.
• Produce risk reports, dashboards, and management information for senior leaders and risk committees with a focus on clarity and relevance, not just compliance.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance risk models; run market analysis, scenario analysis, and stress testing to assess potential impacts on financial positions.
• Drive continuous improvement in risk reporting and analytics, including building out new capabilities to strengthen monitoring and oversight.
• Build strong working relationships across Dealing, Finance, Treasury, Compliance, and senior management providing the risk insights that support real decisions.
• Support and manage project initiatives within the Financial Risk team, delivering against agreed objectives.

What will help you be successful?

You bring solid financial risk experience ideally from a stockbroking or trading environment and you are comfortable working with complex data and presenting your findings clearly to senior stakeholders. Specifically, you will need:

• 3 -5 years demonstrated experience in financial risk management within a stockbroking, trading, or similar financial services environment
• Strong analytical capabilities, with a relevant risk or finance qualification preferred
• Sound knowledge of derivatives and financial instruments
• Advanced Excel skills
• Familiarity with industry systems including CHESS, Palion, GBST, and Iress
• High attention to detail and a proactive, inquisitive approach to problem‑solving
• The ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines
• You must have full working rights in Australia.

If you have been working as a Market Risk Manager, Risk Reporting Manager, or Quantitative Risk Specialist, we would love to hear from you.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and we’re committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work.

We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone.

Please be vigilant when applying for jobs online. CMC Markets will never request personal identification details, such as Date of Birth or Tax File Number prior to an offer being made. If your initial application is successful, regardless of whether you've applied directly or through an approved recruiter, you will always liaise with a representative from CMC's Talent Acquisition team. We will only discuss a role you have formally applied for via phone or email (CMC Markets email address); and never via Facebook.

CMC Markets is one of the world’s first ever fin‑tech companies and was launched in 1989 to break down the barriers of financial trading and make trading accessible to everyone. Our mission is to use our award-winning, Next Generation trading platform and unparalleled client service to empower millions of people to have the best trading experience out there. Our clients can trade on thousands of instruments using the best technology, supported by sophisticated charting, competitive pricing and automated execution. We're trusted by investors globally, but also by banks, brokers, funds and trading desks though our top-tier liquidity institutional offering, enabling these businesses to expand into new markets and increase revenue potential. We were recently listed on the FTSE250, and our business continues to go from strength to strength as we continue to invest in our technology and our people.