Regional Risk Controls Lead - External Trading

Millennium; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Millennium in New York City seeks a Regional Lead for external trading risk controls. You will oversee risk controls for external managers, collaborate with execution teams, and implement pre-trade and post-trade frameworks across regions.

The role requires 10–15 years in trading, risk, or controls, solid product knowledge across asset classes, and excellence in communication and project management. A strong background with Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, and Python is preferred.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of relevant experience in trading, risk or controls; electronic trading experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional oversight of external manager risk controls, partnering with Execution teams and external trading groups to establish effective controls frameworks and address regional requirements.
• Serve as the regional subject-matter expert for external trading controls, including onboarding, pre-trade and post-trade risk management.
• Partner with external trading group control functions to establish trading limits, monitor adherence and manage exceptions.
• Coordinate controls reviews, limit assessments and implementation requirements for onboarding external Portfolio Managers and third-party trading tools.
• Promote clear, consistent application of the pre-trade and post-trade risk controls framework across regional external trading groups.
• Develop and maintain controls dashboards that monitor performance, identify emerging risks and highlight remediation needs.
• Review significant trading events, assess control implications and track delivery of agreed remediation plans.
• Contribute to the continued enhancement of firm-wide standards, policies, procedures and governance for external trading activities.

Skills

Risk controls

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Excel

PowerPoint

SQL

VBA

Jira

Python

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Tableau

SQL

Jira

Python

VBA

Job description

Millennium in New York City seeks a Regional Lead for external trading risk controls. You will oversee risk controls for external managers, collaborate with execution teams, and implement pre-trade and post-trade frameworks across regions.

The role requires 10–15 years in trading, risk, or controls, solid product knowledge across asset classes, and excellence in communication and project management. A strong background with Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, and Python is preferred.