Trading Risk & Reporting, Senior Associate to Director level, Quant Trading Team

Medium; Hongkong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Hong Kong is seeking a Senior Associate/Director to manage P&L reporting and Risk monitoring for its Quant Trading business. The ideal candidate will have a strong quantitative background, at least 3 years of relevant experience, and proficiency in Python and SQL. This role involves direct interaction with trading desks and developing risk management frameworks.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Product Control or Market Risk Management.
• Professional qualifications such as CPA, CFA, or FRM are advantageous.
• Broad understanding of financial products and knowledge of crypto products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and report daily P&L and Risk with commentary.
• Prepare trading performance reports for senior management.
• Develop trading risk management framework and policies.

Skills

Analytical skills

Python

SQL

Attention to detail

Education

Degree in a quantitative discipline

Job description

We are recruiting for a Senior Associate/ Director to expand our in-business Risk and Reporting control function for the global Quant Trading business. Quant Trading business covers a variety of trading desks across cash, derivatives, volatility trading and others. This role will cover both P&L reporting and Risk monitoring with direct interaction with trading desks, central Finance team and other control functions.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for daily monitoring and reporting of P&L and Risk, with commentaries of key drivers
• Prepare trading performance reports and analyses for senior management
• Contribute to the development of the trading risk management framework, drafting of risk policies and procedures for new and existing businesses, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory requirements
• Perform quantitative risk analysis on market risk (e.g. VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis), with insightful commentaries to traders and senior management
• Set up and review trading limits systematically using scripting tools
• Monitor funding risk and ensure integrity of balance sheet capital funding and usage
• Work with trading desks to implement risk controls and ensure breaches are addressed on a timely basis and properly escalated
• Contribute to enhancing the control environment, work with quant developers to build automated trading controls, scripts and dashboards to monitor trading positions and balances real-time

Requirements

• Degree or above in a quantitative discipline, with professional qualification such as CPA, CFA, FRM an added advantage
• Minimum 3 years of relevant working experience such as Product Control, Market Risk Management, Model Validation, with hands-on experience
• Broad understanding of financial products, knowledge of crypto products is a plus
• Proficient in Python and SQL
• Strong analytical skills, detailed oriented
• Hands‑on, passionate about building, a product owner who can drive an initiative from start to finish
• Passionate about cryptocurrency and blockchain