Experienced Risk Manager

ittihad medical centre; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading in Chicago is seeking an Experienced Risk Manager to join the Risk team focused on Delta One. You will collaborate daily with traders, researchers, and software engineers to understand risk and help shape scalable risk frameworks that support trading decisions.

You should have 5+ years in financial risk, Delta One familiarity, strong Python analytics, and the ability to communicate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders. Immigration sponsorship is not offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in financial risk management or related front-office risk.
• Experience supporting Delta One trading strategies.
• Proficiency in Python for risk analytics and automation.
• Working knowledge of SQL preferred.
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts to traders and engineers.
• Willingness to obtain FINRA SIE and Series 57 after joining IMC.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with traders to identify, monitor, and manage risk across trading strategies.
• Monitor and analyze market, credit, capital, and operational risks across portfolios.
• Develop and enhance risk methodologies for equities, ETFs, futures, and other instruments.
• Analyze concentration risk, tail-event scenarios, and portfolio-level exposures.
• Build and enhance quantitative risk tools, reporting, and monitoring frameworks using Python.
• Collaborate with software engineers to improve risk infrastructure and automate workflows.
• Evaluate new strategies and markets while ensuring appropriate risk controls.

Skills

5+ years experience in financial risk

Delta One familiarity

Python proficiency

SQL knowledge

Effective communication of complex qs

FINRA SIE

Series 57

Tools

SQL

Job description

IMC is looking for an Experienced Risk Manager to join our Chicago Risk team, focusing primarily on Delta One business. Risk at IMC is deeply integrated with trading—we don't operate as a separate control function. Instead, we work sideby-side with traders and technology teams to understand risk, challenge assumptions, and help build the frameworks that support better trading decisions. Our team has a broad mandate across market, credit, capital, and operational risk. Rather than assigning rigid responsibilities, we encourage people to contribute wherever they can have the greatest impact. You'll collaborate daily with traders, quantitative researchers, and software engineers while helping shape the firm's approach to risk across existing and emerging trading strategies. This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative team with significant visibility across the business, direct exposure to senior leadership, and the ability to influence both day-to-day trading decisions and the long-term evolution of IMC's risk framework.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with traders to identify, monitor, and manage risk across a wide range of trading strategies
• Monitor and analyze market, credit, capital, and operational risks across IMC's portfolios
• Develop and enhance risk methodologies for products including equities, ETFs, futures, and other exchange-traded instruments
• Analyze concentration risk, tail-event scenarios, and other portfolio-level exposures to improve risk visibility and decision-making
• Build and enhance quantitative risk tools, reporting, and monitoring frameworks using Python
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve risk infrastructure and automate risk workflows
• Work closely with traders to evaluate new strategies, products, and markets while ensuring appropriate risk controls are in place
• Challenge existing processes and propose new frameworks that improve how IMC understands and manages risk

Your Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in financial risk management, quantitative risk, or a related front-office risk function
• Experience supporting exchange-traded products such as equities, ETFs, futures, or other linear products
• Familiarity with Delta One trading strategies
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis, risk analytics, or automation
• Working knowledge of SQL is preferred
• Ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts to traders, engineers, and business stakeholders
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with significant ownership and autonomy
• FINRA SIE and Series 57, or willingness to obtain them after joining IMC

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance.

Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range $150,000 — $210,000 USD

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.