Trading Risk Lead: Build & Own Pre-Trade Controls

Summit Securities Group; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 250.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

401k matching

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Lunch stipends

Descripción de la vacante

Summit Securities Group is seeking an experienced, hands-on risk professional to own trading risk management. Your mission is to develop a clear view of exposures, define how much capital we put at risk, and monitor and modify the limits and controls that keep trading within agreed boundaries.

You will be the firm’s sole dedicated risk professional, responsible for both the framework and its daily operation.

Formación

• Own trading risk management across the firm.
• Define capital at risk and monitor limits and controls.
• Sole dedicated risk professional responsible for framework and daily operation.

Responsabilidades

• Define Trading Risk Management: Establish practical measures of position risk, exposure, concentration, liquidity, and capital at risk at the strategy, desk, and firm levels.
• Own Limits and Desk Oversight: Develop and monitor position, exposure, and loss limits. Review daily activity, investigate exceptions, and ensure that desks operate within agreed risk parameters.
• Build Risk Tools: Personally develop analyses, dashboards, and reporting that make material risks visible and support timely decisions.
• Implement Trading Controls: Translate risk requirements into pre-trade controls, intraday monitoring, alerts, and escalation mechanisms. Validate that controls operate as intended.
• Apply Regulatory Requirements: Bring working knowledge of the broker-dealer rulebook and applicable regulatory risk limits. Partner with compliance and trading to translate relevant requirements into documented controls and monitoring.
• Assess Downside Scenarios: Conduct stress tests and scenario analysis to understand potential losses, changing correlations, and the ability to reduce or exit positions under difficult conditions.
• Review Trading Changes: Assess new strategies, products, and material changes in trading activity, defining appropriate limits and monitoring before launch.
• Drive Risk Response: Establish clear breach and escalation procedures, exercise agreed intervention authority, and ensure that incidents result in completed improvements.

Descripción del empleo

Summit Securities Group is seeking an experienced, hands-on risk professional to own trading risk management. Your mission is to develop a clear view of exposures, define how much capital we put at risk, and monitor and modify the limits and controls that keep trading within agreed boundaries.

You will be the firm’s sole dedicated risk professional, responsible for both the framework and its daily operation.