Senior Risk Manager
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About the Role
NEXT Ventures seeks a Senior Risk Manager to lead the Trading & Risk Management Department across CFD, Futures, and Crypto product lines. The role unifies dealing-desk analytical leadership with investigation oversight, requiring 7+ years of experience in trading risk, brokerage risk, or dealing.
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Responsibilities
- Own the firm's risk and investigation strategy across all product lines
- Lead Investigation Leads across CFD and Futures, setting performance standards and methodology
- Drive automation and tooling improvements for dashboards, monitoring systems, and alerting frameworks
- Propose architecture of abuse detection framework and risk parameters
- Represent the department in cross functional forums with Product, Tech, Marketing, and other stakeholders
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in trading risk, brokerage risk, dealing, FCM/futures supervision, or trade surveillance
- Proven leadership experience managing investigation or risk teams
- Deep understanding of CFD, Futures, and Crypto prop trading industries
- Ability to translate aggregate book intelligence into actionable risk design
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Who We Are
- NEXT Ventures is a global platform revolutionizing access to performance based capital, empowering driven individuals through its flagship brand FundedNext.
- With 500+ employees across five countries, the company serves 220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations.
Your Role in Our Mission
- The Senior Risk Manager is the senior leader of the Trading & Risk Management Department, accountable for investigative and risk analytical functions across CFD, Futures, and Crypto product lines.
- The role unifies dealing desk analytical leadership with investigation oversight, serving as the operational bridge between flow analysis, abuse detection, and rule enforcement.
How You'll Make an Impact Cross Product Risk Leadership
- Own the firm's risk and investigation strategy across all product lines, ensuring methodology coherence and shared standards.
- Translate aggregate book intelligence into actionable risk design, risk threshold recommendations, and investigation prioritization.
- Set the analytical agenda for monitoring, pattern surfacing, and findings flow into product and commercial decisions.
- Bring an industry level view of proprietary trading across CFD, Futures, and Crypto and apply it to risk posture.
- Benchmark internal trader behavior against broader market trends and competitor product structures.
- Represent the department in cross functional forums covering Product, Tech, Marketing, Community, and Partner stakeholders.
- Maintain comprehensive understanding of global FX, CFD, futures, and crypto prop trading industries.
Functional Leadership & Operations
- Lead Investigation Leads across CFD and Futures, setting performance standards, methodology, and case quality benchmarks.
- Direct, mentor, and retain a cross product team of Investigation Leads and Senior Analysts.
- Drive and standardize the firm's investigation playbook across CFD and Futures.
- Drive automation and tooling improvements to scale oversight as volume grows.
- Partner with HR and Head of Department on hiring, calibration, and succession planning.
Risk Framework and Rule Design
- Propose architecture of abuse detection framework, risk parameters, and behavioral constraints across products.
- Conduct quantitative simulations and historical performance audits to calibrate risk filters.
- Identify platform vulnerabilities and exploit patterns and recommend countermeasures.
- Recommend risk policies on product lines, platforms, and competitor strategies to Head of Department.
- Drive risk automation, dashboard development, and KPI maturity across investigation and analytics functions.
- Provide evidence backed input to teams on rule calibration, challenge design, and platform configuration decisions.
What You Bring
- 7+ years of experience in trading risk, brokerage risk, dealing, FCM/futures supervision, or trade surveillance.
- Proven leadership experience managing investigation or risk teams.
- Deep understanding of CFD, Futures, and Crypto prop trading industries.
- Ability to translate aggregate book intelligence into actionable risk design.
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