Role Overview
We're hiring a
Risk Manager to strengthen and scale our risk function across a fast-growing forex/CFD brokerage environment. You will own day-to-day
market risk and client risk oversight, drive risk policy execution, and partner with Dealing, Compliance, Operations, Product, and Tech to ensure robust controls, clean flows, and a resilient risk framework.
This is a high-impact role for someone who can combine
hands-on monitoring with
strategic risk design, and who thrives in a high-tempo trading business.
Key Responsibilities
Market Risk & Exposure Management
- Monitor real-time and end-of-day net exposure, concentration risk, and volatility risk across instruments (FX, metals, indices, crypto, etc.).
- Define and maintain risk limits: exposure caps, concentration thresholds, margin buffers, and escalation rules.
- Partner with Dealing to manage hedging logic (where relevant), execution quality, and abnormal market conditions.
Client Risk, Conduct & Trading Surveillance
- Detect and investigate abusive or high-risk behaviors: latency arbitrage, bonus abuse, toxic flow, hedging abuse, spoofing-like patterns, scalping anomalies, etc.
- Implement and optimize risk flags, segmentation rules, and client profiling (new vs mature, retail vs partners, risk scoring).
- Recommend risk actions: leverage restrictions, instrument restrictions, margin adjustments, trading conditions review, or account measures aligned with internal policies.
Risk Controls, Policies & Governance
- Build/upgrade risk policies and SOPs across: leverage framework, margin calls/stop-out logic, negative balance protection (as applicable), instrument risk parameters, weekend/overnight risk, news risk.
- Run risk committee cadence: dashboards, incident reports, action plans, KPI tracking.
- Ensure proper audit trails and structured documentation of decisions and actions.
Data, Automation & Tooling
- Own dashboards and reporting (MT4/MT5, CRM, BI tools): exposures, PnL drivers, client cohorts, exceptions, incidents.
- Work with Tech/Product to automate monitoring, alerts, and rule-based controls.
- Improve risk efficiency by reducing manual work through workflows and tooling.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Align with Compliance on AML-red-flags overlap and suspicious behaviors.
- Support Sales/Partnerships with risk input for promotional structures, rebates, and bonus eligibility rules (ensuring clean flow and controlled downside).
- Provide training to internal teams on risk best practices and escalation protocols.
Requirements (Must-Have)
- 3+ years in a Risk role within Forex/CFD brokerage, prop trading, liquidity provider, or similar trading environment.
- Strong knowledge of:
- Margin/leverage mechanics, exposure management, stop-out logic
- Market microstructure basics, volatility regimes, news risk
- Client behavior patterns and trading abuse typologies
- Experience with MT4/MT5 (manager/admin reports) and practical risk monitoring.
- High analytical capability (Excel advanced; BI tools a plus) and ability to translate data into decisions.
- Clear communication and ability to operate with senior stakeholders under time pressure.
Nice-to-Have
- Experience implementing risk rules/alerts via BI, SQL, Python, or internal tooling.
- Familiarity with liquidity/prime brokerage setups (A-Book/B-Book hybrid models).
- Previous work in regulated environments (CySEC, MFSA, SCA, etc.).
- Experience designing bonus/promotion risk controls and eligibility frameworks.
What Success Looks Like (90–120 Days)
- Real-time risk monitoring and escalation framework running smoothly with clear ownership.
- Improved detection of toxic flow and abusive trading patterns with measurable reduction in losses.
- Cleaner governance: documented risk decisions, better dashboards, clear KPIs, faster incident resolution.
- Risk parameters optimized across instruments and client segments without harming healthy volume.
What We Offer
- High-ownership role with direct impact on trading performance and risk resilience.
- Multi-location flexibility (Cyprus/Malta/Dubai/Jordan/Remote) with a global team.
- Competitive compensation aligned to experience + performance upside.
- Strong growth runway and autonomy to build best-in-class risk systems.
