Optiver | Trading Risk Analyst

BestForexBonus.com; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Optiver is seeking a risk-focused professional to enhance risk processes and contribute to risk frameworks. The role involves assessing risks of new trading initiatives, monitoring regulatory and margin requirements, and designing capital allocation models in relation to current positions and market exposures.

The candidate will work on improving systems to capture data efficiently, stay aligned with evolving market and credit risk, and continuously reflect on personal and process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the enhancement of risk processes by identifying and evaluating business critical exposures.
• Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of our risk frameworks.
• Assess the risk of new trading initiatives and the expansion of current trading strategies.
• Monitor regulatory, clearing and margin requirements and anticipate how they will change based on Optiver’s fast changing positions.
• Design and implement capital allocation and contribution models.
• Follow financial markets linking it to current positions and market/credit risk exposures.
• Help improve our systems and tools in order to capture data in the most effective way.
• Ability to continuously self-reflect and want to improve.

Job description

Job description: Assist in the enhancement of risk processes by identifying and evaluating business critical exposures. Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of our risk frameworks. Assess the risk of new trading initiatives and the expansion of current trading strategies. Monitor regulatory, clearing and margin requirements and anticipate how they will change based on Optiver’s fast changing positions. Design and implement capital allocation and contribution models. Follow financial markets linking it to current positions and market/credit risk exposures. Help improve our systems and tools in order to capture data in the most effective way. Ability to continuously self-reflect and want to improve.