Trading Risk Manager
Seoul, South Korea
Trading – Quant Middle Office /
Full-time /
Hybrid
The Quant Trading team is responsible for trading and managing risks associated with different crypto products, including spots and derivatives. The team develops and implements trading strategies in fast-paced and complex trading environments.
Job Responsibilities:
• As a core member of the Trading Risk Control team, drive the overall development and execution of the risk management strategy for the Korea Trading Business
• Develop a sound understanding of trading strategies, implement appropriate risk metrics and quantitative analytics on trading performance
• Responsible for monitoring, analyzing and reporting of trading desks' risk exposures, real-time monitoring of limits, reporting of breaches and actively following up on actions to resolve breaches with trading desks, and recommending risk mitigation strategies
• Develop proper risk management policies, procedures to assess, monitor and report material risks, ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory requirements for current and new products
• Work with quant developers to build risk modeling tools to develop and maintain risk indicators and threshold settings based on quantitative analytics, as well as dashboards to monitor trading risk real-time
•Regular reporting and audit responses to the FSS in Korea and financial authorities
Requirements:
•Degree or above in a quantitative discipline, with professional qualification such as CFA and FRM an added advantage
• Minimum 5 years of risk management experience in a quantitative trading firm, investment bank or hedge fund
• Hands-on experience developing risk management procedures and building risk monitoring
• Proficient in Python and SQL, knowledge in any other programming language is a plus
• Good organizational and interpersonal skills
• Passionate about cryptocurrency and blockchain
• Native Korean proficiency
