VP, Electronic Trading Risk Management

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Vice President of Risk Management in New York, NY to identify, understand, solve, and monitor electronic and algorithmic trading risks. The role focuses on implementing and owning controls, real-time monitoring, and data-driven problem solving to support business growth with risk discipline.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years in risk/trading roles, plus experience with Bloomberg, Python, SQL, and market micro-structure across the Americas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or a related field is required.
• Requires three (3) years of experience in risk management, trading, or related roles.
• Three (3) years experience with equity markets, trading systems, controls, and regulatory inquiries.

Responsibilities

• Identify, understand, solve, and monitor electronic and algorithmic trading challenges.
• Implement and own electronic trading risk controls to enable risk-controlled business development.
• Monitor electronic trading activity and controls in real-time and address issues as they arise.
• Perform analysis on large datasets and system logs to diagnose issues and propose recommendations.
• Own and enhance operational processes mitigating operational and regulatory reporting risks.
• Provide electronic trading risk oversight relating to product management and new trading initiatives.
• Program manage cross-divisional business initiatives.

Skills

Equity market micro-structure

Real-time issue troubleshooting

Low-latency trading risk

Data analysis

Project management

Limit management

Algorithmic trading

Regulatory landscape

Vendor platforms

Trading technology deployments

Asset class differences

Bloomberg

PowerBI

Business Objects

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Office

Python

Shell scripting

Q/KDB

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or related field

Tools

Bloomberg

PowerBI

Business Objects

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Office

Python

Shell scripting

Q/KDB

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Vice President of Risk Management in New York, NY to identify, understand, solve, and monitor electronic and algorithmic trading risks. The role focuses on implementing and owning controls, real-time monitoring, and data-driven problem solving to support business growth with risk discipline.

Requirements include a Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years in risk/trading roles, plus experience with Bloomberg, Python, SQL, and market micro-structure across the Americas.