Overnight Margin Risk Lead — Real-Time Market Safeguard

Kalshi; United States; Vor Ort; USD 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

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Zusammenfassung

Kalshi is seeking a Senior Margin Risk professional to own overnight operations, serving as the primary risk monitor during non-standard hours. You will handle real-time margin surveillance, escalation decisions, and maintain the platform's risk posture through the overnight session.

You will collaborate with clearing, compliance, and technology teams to manage margin calls, reconciliations, and settlements while ensuring accurate margin calculations across Kalshi's markets.

Qualifikationen

• 4–10+ years in margin operations, clearing operations, or market risk at a financial exchange or broker-dealer.
• Deep familiarity with initial/variation margin and collateral management.
• Experience in real-time risk monitoring and independent escalation under pressure.
• Strong understanding of cleared derivatives, futures, or event contracts and their risk mechanics.
• Comfort working overnight or non-standard hours as primary risk coverage.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL or similar tools for data analysis and monitoring.
• Excellent written communication for clear shift handoffs and memos.

Aufgaben

• Monitor margin positions, exposure, and collateral in real time during overnight hours.
• Identify and escalate margin deficiencies, unusual concentrations, and breaches per thresholds.
• Execute margin calls and manage end-to-end lifecycle (issuance, tracking, resolution).
• Perform end-of-day and overnight reconciliations across clearing accounts; ensure margin calculations accuracy.
• Coordinate with clearing members, counterparties, and custodians to resolve disputes and settlements.
• Monitor market activity and liquidity overnight; flag developments affecting risk exposure.
• Maintain and update risk operations runbooks, escalation procedures, and handoff docs.
• Assist in building automated monitoring tools and process improvements to reduce manual risk.

Kenntnisse

Margin operations

Real-time risk

Python

SQL

Derivatives knowledge

Overnight shift

Tools

None

Jobbeschreibung

Kalshi is seeking a Senior Margin Risk professional to own overnight operations, serving as the primary risk monitor during non-standard hours. You will handle real-time margin surveillance, escalation decisions, and maintain the platform's risk posture through the overnight session.

You will collaborate with clearing, compliance, and technology teams to manage margin calls, reconciliations, and settlements while ensuring accurate margin calculations across Kalshi's markets.