Risk Manager - Broker Dealer / Capital Markets

Robert Half Financial Services is recruiting for a Risk Manager role for a global Broker Dealer firm located in downtown Manhattan, New York. Our client requires 5+ years of Market/Counterparty Risk at a Broker Dealer/Capital Markets firm or Bank, with knowledge of Equities/Derivatives, VaR, Margin Rules/Limits, and Risk Modelling. This role is hybrid remote requiring 4 days per week in the downtown Manhattan New York office, but does require 5 days in during the first few months.

The Risk Manager position will be responsible for managing and overseeing all areas of counterparty risks, market risks, and systematic risks globally. Covering intraday, in near real time, for making decisions on counterparty and market related limits changes. Also setting and monitoring associated limits and expected to be highly proactive to ensure margin requirements are appropriate.

Responsibilities:

1. Providing risk oversight for business activities and risks arising in global institutional trading and prime brokerage businesses.
2. Understanding market and credit risks within products (incl. cash equity, options, and futures) together with market structure and regulation.
3. Developing quantitative counterparty risk exposure analysis, including VaR Margin and regulatory bilateral margin rules.
4. Working with businesses to analyze and approve client margin and various risk limits.
5. Understanding basic equity trade flows in terms of clearing and settlement to assist with risk managing issues that may arise.
6. Employing counterparty credit analysis to calibrate right size exposures.
7. Daily management and analysis of customer portfolio exposure and limits.
8. Monitoring all operational risk, including breaks and fails and working daily with operations team to resolve.
9. Conduct client pre-trade risk analysis of financing and trades to support approval decisions.
10. Stress testing client portfolios and providing oversight of limit utilizations where relevant.
11. duct regular risk assessments, which involves analyzing risks as well as identifying, describing, and estimating the risks affecting the business.
12. Business Continuity Planning and Incident Response Management for all related entities globally.
13. Actively manage the firm’s risk exposures through regular Risk Committee meetings.
14. Ensuring the global risk framework and associated procedures are implemented and followed.
15. Lead in the development of new and enhanced risk management approaches—creating new tools, working with vendors and refining existing tools and technology.
16. Coordinate Market Access Rule related product level governance forums, working groups and committees.

Requirements:

1. 5+ years of Market/Counterparty Risk at a Broker Dealer/Capital Markets firm or Bank
2. Knowledge of Equities/Derivatives, VaR, Margin Rules/Limits, and Risk Modelling
3. Understanding of clearing firm house and regulatory margin and risk policies.
4. Experience with extracting and transforming large sets of data to perform risk limits and portfolio related analytics.
5. Advanced Excel, SQL, Bloomberg and trading systems experience desired
6. Experience with SEC 15c3-5 Market Access Rule
7. Series 7, 3, 4, 24 FINRA licenses preferable, but not required.
8. Bachelor or Master Degree in Finance, Engineering, Math or similar subject

The Risk Manager role is located in downtown Manhattan New York so please only apply if you are able to travel to this location, have relevant experience for the role, and are eligible to work in the United States. The salary is dependent on experience, the range is $150-180k base plus 30+% bonus. If your profile matches the above criteria, please email me directly and add me on LinkedIn, Trishan.Khareghat@roberthalf.com