Our client is a global 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 risk function and are looking to appoint an experienced 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 risk framework and capability across market, liquidity and operational risk from an early stage. While the role carries a generalist risk remit, market risk remains the core focus.

Key Responsibilities

- Own and evolve the market risk framework - rolling out risk limits and policies and ensuring consistent application across all trading activities.
- Monitor and manage liquidity risk, including funding and cash-flow positions, liquidity buffers and stress scenarios, ensuring the firm operates within its liquidity risk appetite.
- Identify, assess and monitor operational risks across trading and business processes, supporting the design and embedding of appropriate controls.
- Build trusted relationships with trading teams, providing independent challenge on market, liquidity and operational 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, as well as liquidity and operational risk scenarios.
- Run daily risk monitoring across market, liquidity and operational risk, ensuring controls and processes are in place and reporting to stakeholders accurately and on time.
- Prepare regular and ad-hoc risk reports and analysis for trading and senior management, covering market, liquidity and operational risk metrics.
- Support the new product and strategy approval process, identifying risks across all risk types and constructively challenging trading ideas.
- Build and improve dashboards,



reporting and monitoring tools to strengthen risk visibility and response capability across the risk function.
- 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 risk management role at a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, bank or similar, ideally spanning market risk with exposure to liquidity and/or operational risk.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret large datasets, investigate trading behaviour and develop data-driven risk insights across risk types.
- 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.
- Working knowledge of liquidity risk management (funding, cash-flow forecasting, liquidity stress testing) and operational risk frameworks (risk and control assessments, incident management, KRIs) advantageous.
- Proven track record managing projects spanning multiple stakeholders, teams and locations.
- Proficiency in Python, with working knowledge of AI tools.
- Strong 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 setting and a world-class technology backbone. Operating across global offices with a high-performance culture.

Please apply to be considered for this opportunity.

📌 Financial & Operational Risk Manager - Financial Markets (Sydney)
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