Trading & Risk Analyst

Solo Clash; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentoring

Career progression

Claude Code access

Job summary

Solo Clash L.L.C-FZ is seeking a tester for our proprietary trading and risk model, focusing on validating bias, confidence, and volatility from a trader's and risk manager's perspective. You will supply market and risk inputs that our quant team uses to build the model, and you will review post-release performance against real market moves.

You will gather inputs from traders and risk managers, participate in client demos, and help create educational content while ensuring compliance reports

Qualifications

• Experience trading or managing risk in liquid markets (indices, rates, commodities, FX, large-cap equities).
• Experience at prop firms, banks, funds or risk desks, or documented personal risk-adjusted results.
• Understanding macro releases move markets and affect liquidity and execution.
• Working knowledge of risk management: position sizing, drawdown, exposure limits, stress testing, VaR.

Responsibilities

• Test the model around key releases, check bias, confidence and volatility against markets.
• After releases, compare reports with market performance and write reviews.
• Raise questions on unrealistic results and work with quant team to resolve.
• Provide market inputs for modelling: liquidity, spreads, slippage, gaps, contract specs.
• Define risk inputs: event exposure, drawdown scenarios, position sizing.
• Monitor markets around releases and report anomalies or regime changes.
• Gather product requirements from traders and risk managers.
• Participate in client demos and contribute to market notes and education content.
• Collaborate with compliance to ensure reports are factual and not investment advice.

Skills

Trading risk

Risk management

Excel/Sheets

Python/SQL

Communication

English proficiency

Education

FRM

CFA

CMT

Tools

Rithmic

CQG

NinjaTrader

Job description

Your main job is testing our proprietary trading and risk model from a trader's and risk manager's perspective, and supplying the market and risk inputs the quant team builds into it.

Solo Clash is a proprietary trading company with a simple mission: give aspiring traders the training, technology, and community they need to succeed, and let them focus on what they do best. We provide the environment; our traders bring the curiosity. Together, we win.

At the heart of our platform is our in-house analytics and trading engine, built to process real-time data and surface transparent statistics that help traders make better decisions.

What you'll do

• Test the model around key releases and check whether its bias, confidence and volatility figures match how these markets trade.
• After each release, compare the report with how the market traded and write a short review.
• Question results that look unrealistic, suggest hypotheses and follow issues up with the quant team until they are resolved.
• Provide the market inputs for modelling, including liquidity, spreads, slippage, gaps and contract specifications.
• Define the risk inputs, including event exposure, drawdown scenarios and position sizing.
• Monitor markets around key releases and report unusual behaviour, data issues and regime changes.
• Gather product requirements from traders and risk managers at prop firms and funds.
• Take part in client demos and calls, and contribute to market notes and educational content.
• Work with compliance so reports and client content stay factual and are not presented as investment advice.

What we're looking for

• Experience trading or managing risk in liquid markets such as index, rates or commodity futures, major FX or large-cap equities.
• Experience at a prop firm, bank, fund, broker or risk desk, or a documented personal track record with risk-adjusted results.
• Understanding of how macro releases move markets and affect liquidity and execution.
• Working knowledge of risk management, including position sizing, drawdown and exposure limits, stress testing and VaR.
• Experience working with data in Excel or Google Sheets. Basic Python or SQL is an advantage.
• You communicate directly with quants, engineers and clients.
• You trade with discipline and judge trades by the quality of the decision.
• Good English. Other languages are an advantage.

Nice to have

• Experience with CME products (ES, NQ, GC, CL, ZN).
• Experience on a prop firm risk desk, evaluating or monitoring funded traders.
• Experience with futures platforms and data feeds (Rithmic, CQG, NinjaTrader).
• Progress towards FRM, CFA or CMT.
• Knowledge of market microstructure and order flow analysis.

What we offer

• Compensation based on experience.
• Access to Claude Code and other AI tools.
• Mentoring matched to your experience level.
• Responsibility for your own area of the product.
• Career progression based on performance.