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2 results for Electronic Trading Risk Controls Consultant in New York, NY
- New York, NY
- onsite
- Permanent / Full Time
- 150000 - 180000 USD / Yearly
- <p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><ul><li>Providing risk oversight for business activities and risks arising in global institutional trading and prime brokerage businesses.</li><li>Understanding market and credit risks within products (incl. cash equity, options, and futures) together with market structure and regulation. </li><li>Developing quantitative counterparty risk exposure analysis, including VaR Margin and regulatory bilateral margin rules.</li><li>Working with businesses to analyze and approve client margin and various risk limits.</li><li>Understanding basic equity trade flows in terms of clearing and settlement to assist with risk managing issues that may arise. </li><li>Employing counterparty credit analysis to calibrate right size exposures.</li><li>Daily management and analysis of customer portfolio exposure and limits. </li><li>Monitoring all operational risk, including breaks and fails and working daily with operations team to resolve.</li><li>Conduct client pre-trade risk analysis of financing and trades to support approval decisions.</li><li>Stress testing client portfolios and providing oversight of limit utilizations where relevant.</li><li>duct regular risk assessments, which involves analyzing risks as well as identifying, describing, and estimating the risks affecting the business.</li><li>Business Continuity Planning and Incident Response Management for all related entities globally.</li><li>Actively manage the firm’s risk exposures through regular Risk Committee meetings.</li><li>Ensuring the global risk framework and associated procedures are implemented and followed. </li><li>Lead in the development of new and enhanced risk management approaches—creating new tools, working with vendors and refining existing tools and technology.</li><li>Coordinate Market Access Rule related product level governance forums, working groups and committees.</li></ul>
- 2026-10-29T00:00:00Z
- New York, NY
- onsite
- Temporary / Contract
- 50 - 60 USD / Hourly
- <p>Our client is seeking a compliance and surveillance analyst with 2 to 5 years of experience to join their newly registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM). In this role, you will support our Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) in navigating NFA and CFTC frameworks, managing day-to-day regulatory operations, and executing trade surveillance. This position is ideal for an analyst with a foundation in FINRA or NFA regulations who wants to step into the cutting-edge intersection of digital assets and traditional derivatives. This role is onsite 2-3 days a week in Manhattan. </p><p>Key Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Regulatory Responses: Assist the CCO in preparing timely responses to NFA and CFTC inquiries, audits, and routine exams.</li><li>Trade Surveillance: Monitor daily trading activity to detect and investigate potential market abuses, wash trading, or spoofing.</li><li>Policies & Procedures: Update, refine, and maintain the FCM’s written supervisory procedures to match evolving crypto-derivatives regulations.</li><li>Training Program Development: Create and deliver regulatory compliance training modules for internal staff and associated persons.</li></ul><p><br></p>
- 2026-10-27T00:00:00Z