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Head of Risk
ALGOQUANT
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full Time
Director
6 days ago
Risk ManagementVaRStress TestingDrawdown AnalysisLeverage ManagementMarket Risk Modelling
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About the Role
AlgoQuant Asset Management is seeking a founding Head of Risk to own day-to-day risk oversight across trading strategies and external manager allocations.
Key Skills for This Role
Risk ManagementVaRStress TestingDrawdown AnalysisLeverage ManagementMarket Risk Modelling
Responsibilities
- Own day to day risk monitoring across all active trading pods and external manager allocations
- Take ownership of the firm's existing risk frameworks, models, reporting, and processes, and drive continuous improvement in collaboration with senior leadership
- Stress test portfolio exposures, drawdown limits, leverage, and concentration risk continuously
- Monitor counterparty, custody, and operational risk across exchange and prime brokerage relationships
- Enforce risk parameters with portfolio managers and flag breaches in real time
- Produce concise risk reporting for leadership and institutional investors
- Assess risk on new strategy onboardings, exchange relationships, and product launches
- Develop your function with a view to stepping into Chief Risk Officer over time
Requirements
- 10 to 15 years of experience in a hands on risk management role covering market risk, trading risk, or portfolio risk
- TradFi background from a multi strategy hedge fund or systematic trading firm
- Genuine interest in digital assets and blockchain
- Experience in a firm of 10 to 50 people and comfortable working independently in a lean, high ownership environment
- Deep expertise in VaR, stress testing, drawdown analysis, leverage management, and market risk modelling
- Understanding of how trading decisions translate into risk exposure
- Ownership mindset and rigorous approach to risk
- Ambition to grow into a CRO role within one to two years
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About AlgoQuant
- AlgoQuant Asset Management is a multi strategy digital asset manager allocating capital across 25+ internal and external quantitative trading pods.
- Founded in 2018, we have evolved into an institutional platform combining trading edge with strong governance and advanced technology, serving family offices and institutional investors globally.
The Role
- This is AlgoQuant's founding risk hire, a high ownership, execution focused position for a risk professional who thrives in a live, fast moving trading environment.
- You will own the day to day risk oversight function across the firm's full portfolio of trading strategies and external manager allocations, reporting directly to the President.
- We are looking for someone who is hands on, detail oriented, and experienced in operating within smaller, high trust teams.
- AlgoQuant already has risk frameworks in place. The right candidate will take full ownership of these, collaborating with senior members of the team to enhance and evolve them continuously.
- This role carries a clear path to Chief Risk Officer as AlgoQuant scales.
Responsibilities
- Own day to day risk monitoring across all active trading pods and external manager allocations
- Take ownership of the firm's existing risk frameworks, models, reporting, and processes, and drive continuous improvement in collaboration with senior leadership
- Stress test portfolio exposures, drawdown limits, leverage, and concentration risk continuously
- Monitor counterparty, custody, and operational risk across exchange and prime brokerage relationships
- Enforce risk parameters with portfolio managers and flag breaches in real time
- Produce concise risk reporting for leadership and institutional investors
- Assess risk on new strategy onboardings, exchange relationships, and product launches
- Develop your function with a view to stepping into Chief Risk Officer over time
What We Are Looking For
- Experience: 10 to 15 years of experience in a hands on risk management role covering market risk, trading risk, or portfolio risk.
- Background: TradFi background from a multi strategy hedge fund or systematic trading firm. Genuine interest in digital assets and blockchain, along with recent experience working at a traditional finance hedge fund.
- Firm Size: Experience in a firm of 10 to 50 people and comfortable working independently in a lean, high ownership environment.
- Quantitative Foundation: Deep expertise in VaR, stress testing, drawdown analysis, leverage management, and market risk modelling. Able to design, build, validate, and maintain these models independently.
- Trading Understanding: Understand how trading decisions translate into risk exposure.
- Ownership Mindset: Take full ownership of the frameworks and processes, collaborating closely with senior team members to improve and strengthen them continuously.
- Rigorous Approach to Risk: Seek to understand and validate every number before reaching a conclusion.
- Growth Trajectory: Ambition to grow into a CRO role within one to two years.
Location and Reporting
- Location: Dubai (preferred) | London | New York
- Reports to: President
- Start: 2026
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