Trading Risk Manager
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Role Overview
The Trading Risk Manager will lead market-risk oversight across trading activities, portfolios, positions, and financial instruments.
The role provides independent risk oversight, establishes controls, monitors exposures, conducts stress testing, and advises senior management.
The posting states that the role is fully remote in the United Arab Emirates and full-time.
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Role Overview
The Trading Risk Manager will lead market-risk oversight across trading activities, portfolios, positions, and financial instruments.
The role provides independent risk oversight, establishes controls, monitors exposures, conducts stress testing, and advises senior management.
The posting states that the role is fully remote in the United Arab Emirates and full-time.
Risk Framework and Monitoring
- Develop trading risk frameworks, policies, limits, standards, and governance processes.
- Monitor positions, exposures, concentrations, risk indicators, limit utilization, and breaches.
- Analyze market, liquidity, concentration, counterparty, and basis risks across trading portfolios.
- Establish early-warning indicators and coordinate escalation for breaches, losses, and market events.
Analysis and Controls
- Conduct Value at Risk analysis, stress testing, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis.
- Review trading strategies, new products, markets, instruments, and trading-limit approvals.
- Assess liquidity and the ability to exit or hedge positions under stressed conditions.
- Review valuation practices, independent price verification, model validation, and model performance.
- Ensure trading and risk-system data is accurate, complete, consistent, and properly captured.
Reporting and Governance
- Develop daily, weekly, and monthly trading-risk reports and management dashboards.
- Support incident investigations, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, internal audits, and regulatory reviews.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, delegated authorities, and risk appetite.
- Improve risk-management processes through automation, analytics, visualization, and technology enhancements.
- Promote a strong risk culture and disciplined trading practices.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong experience in trading risk, market risk, financial markets, investment banking, treasury, portfolio risk, or quantitative risk management.
- Experience overseeing market risk across multiple asset classes and knowledge of traded instruments and derivatives.
- Practical experience with Value at Risk, stress testing, scenario analysis, and sensitivity measures.
- Experience assessing liquidity, concentration, counterparty, and basis risks.
- Knowledge of trading systems, risk systems, financial models, valuation, and model-risk principles.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, communication, stakeholder-management, judgment, and decision-making skills.
- Understanding of financial regulations and governance requirements.
- Experience with international and distributed teams, plus strong integrity and independent risk oversight.
Performance Indicators
Performance indicators include limit utilization, breaches, Value at Risk, stress losses, portfolio volatility, reporting accuracy, data quality, concentration, counterparty, liquidity, model-risk, and regulatory compliance measures.
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