Head of Risk - Derivatives & Market Risk Leader (Amsterdam)

QuantFlow; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site in Amsterdam

Job summary

QuantFlow is building a dedicated risk function for a regulated European trading venue in Amsterdam, focusing on market, liquidity, and operational risk across crypto and traditional instruments. This hands-on role demands practical risk experience and the ability to adapt as the product suite expands.

You will work directly with executive leadership on risk strategy, margin methodology, and reporting to the board and regulator, located on-site in Amsterdam.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in risk within trading venues, exchanges, clearing houses, brokerages or proprietary trading firms, in a regulated environment.
• Ownership of margin and liquidation methodology for derivatives: you know how a model behaves when a market gaps.
• Solid understanding of market structure, derivatives, liquidity and operational risk.
• Quantitatively strong enough to challenge a model on its assumptions rather than on its output.
• Working knowledge of MiFID II, MiCAR and DORA.
• Comfortable at the intersection of crypto and traditional finance, and able to explain the difference in risk terms to a board and a regulator.
• Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus.

Responsibilities

• The risk framework across market, credit and counterparty, liquidity, operational and model risk, kept current as new regulated products go live.
• Margin, collateral and liquidation methodology for leveraged products, including the assumptions behind them and how they behave in a stressed market.
• Risk appetite and limits: set with the board, monitored daily, and enforced when they are reached.
• Stress testing and scenario analysis across crypto and traditional instruments, and the capital and liquidity conclusions that follow.
• ICT risk management and operational resilience under DORA, including incident response and business continuity.
• Risk reporting that the board and the regulator both understand: KRIs, KPIs and the story behind them.
• Building the risk team and the tooling it works with.

Skills

Risk management

Derivatives risk

Model validation

Stress testing

Regulatory risk

Education

FRM/PRM or similar

Tools

Risk modeling software

Job description

QuantFlow is building a dedicated risk function for a regulated European trading venue in Amsterdam, focusing on market, liquidity, and operational risk across crypto and traditional instruments. This hands-on role demands practical risk experience and the ability to adapt as the product suite expands.

You will work directly with executive leadership on risk strategy, margin methodology, and reporting to the board and regulator, located on-site in Amsterdam.