Our client is a global proprietary trading and market-making firm with a fast-growing footprint across Asia-Pacific. As the business scales its regional trading activity, they are building out a best-in-class market risk function and are looking to appoint an experienced Market Risk Manager to play a central role in that build.

This is a rare opportunity to join at the ground floor of an APAC expansion, working directly alongside trading and technology teams across a genuinely diverse product set, and to help shape the firm's market risk framework and capability in the region from an early stage.

Key Responsibilities

- Own and evolve the market risk framework - rolling out risk limits and policies and ensuring consistent application across all trading activities.
- Build trusted relationships with trading teams, providing independent challenge on market risk and working collaboratively to keep risk within the firm's risk appetite.
- Design and implement stress tests and scenario analysis for a range of derivatives and Delta1 strategies.
- Run daily risk monitoring, ensuring controls and processes are in place and reporting to stakeholders accurately and on time.
- Prepare regular and ad-hoc market risk reports and analysis for trading and senior management.
- Support the new product and strategy approval process, identifying risks and constructively challenging trading ideas.
- Build and improve dashboards, reporting and monitoring tools to strengthen risk visibility and response capability.




- Maintain relationships with counterparts at clearing houses and exchanges to ensure compliance with regulatory and capital requirements.

Candidate Requirements

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Engineering or a related field; professional certifications (e.g. FRM, CFA) advantageous.
- Approximately 5 years' experience in a front-office risk management role at a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, or similar.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret large datasets, investigate trading behaviour and develop data-driven risk insights.
- Solid understanding of options theory, derivatives and financial products, including key market risk characteristics and practical application of option structures, pricing and risk concepts.
- Demonstrated market risk experience across one or more asset classes - listed equities, commodities, foreign exchange and fixed income - with the ability to quickly build expertise in new products. Experience with Asian equity markets highly regarded.
- Proven track record managing projects spanning multiple stakeholders, teams and locations.
- Proficiency in Python, with working knowledge of AI tools.
- Robust troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, with the ability to solve problems creatively and proactively.
- Ability to prioritise, act and perform successfully in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment.

About the Business

Our client is a long-established global trading firm, boasting a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Operating across global offices with a high-performance culture.

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