IMC

Experienced Risk Manager

IMC$150K — $210K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of financial risk management or quantitative risk experience
  • Experience with exchange-traded products like equities, ETFs, and futures
  • Familiarity with Delta One trading strategies
  • Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
  • Proficiency in Python for risk analytics and automation
  • Preferred working knowledge of SQL
  • Ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts to various stakeholders
  • Comfortable in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with autonomy
  • Willingness to obtain FINRA SIE and Series 57 licenses post-joining

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with traders to identify and manage risk across trading strategies
  • Monitor and analyze market, credit, capital, and operational risks across portfolios
  • Develop and enhance risk methodologies for various exchange-traded instruments
  • Analyze concentration risk and tail-event scenarios to improve risk visibility
  • Build and enhance quantitative risk tools and frameworks using Python
  • Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve risk infrastructure
  • Evaluate new strategies and products, ensuring appropriate risk controls are in place
  • Challenge existing processes and propose frameworks for better risk understanding

Benefits

  • Discretionary bonus opportunity
  • Comprehensive paid leave
  • Insurance coverage
  • Access to a collaborative and impactful work environment
  • Exposure to senior leadership
  • Autonomy in decision-making processes
Full Job Description
IMC is looking for an Experienced Risk Manager to join our Chicago Risk team, focusing primarily on Delta One business. Risk at IMC is deeply integrated with trading-we don't operate as a separate control function. Instead, we work sideby-side with traders and technology teams to understand risk, challenge assumptions, and help build the frameworks that support better trading decisions. Our team has a broad mandate across market, credit, capital, and operational risk. Rather than assigning rigid responsibilities, we encourage people to contribute wherever they can have the greatest impact. You'll collaborate daily with traders, quantitative researchers, and software engineers while helping shape the firm's approach to risk across existing and emerging trading strategies. This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative team with significant visibility across the business, direct exposure to senior leadership, and the ability to influence both day-to-day trading decisions and the long-term evolution of IMC's risk framework.

Your Core Responsibilities:
  • Partner closely with traders to identify, monitor, and manage risk across a wide range of trading strategies
  • Monitor and analyze market, credit, capital, and operational risks across IMC's portfolios
  • Develop and enhance risk methodologies for products including equities, ETFs, futures, and other exchange-traded instruments
  • Analyze concentration risk, tail-event scenarios, and other portfolio-level exposures to improve risk visibility and decision-making
  • Build and enhance quantitative risk tools, reporting, and monitoring frameworks using Python
  • Partner with software engineering teams to improve risk infrastructure and automate risk workflows
  • Work closely with traders to evaluate new strategies, products, and markets while ensuring appropriate risk controls are in place
  • Challenge existing processes and propose new frameworks that improve how IMC understands and manages risk


Your Skills and Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in financial risk management, quantitative risk, or a related front-office risk function
  • Experience supporting exchange-traded products such as equities, ETFs, futures, or other linear products
  • Familiarity with Delta One trading strategies
  • Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
  • Proficiency in Python for data analysis, risk analytics, or automation
  • Working knowledge of SQL is preferred
  • Ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts to traders, engineers, and business stakeholders
  • Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with significant ownership and autonomy
  • FINRA SIE and Series 57, or willingness to obtain them after joining IMC


Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range

$150,000-$210,000 USD

About IMC

IMC Financial Markets, sometimes referred to as IMC Trading, is a proprietary trading firm and market maker for various financial instruments listed on exchanges throughout the world. Founded in 1989 as International Market makers Combination, the company employs over 1100 people and has offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Sydney, Hong Kong and Mumbai. IMC is a technology-driven trading firm active in over 100 trading venues throughout the world and offering liquidity to over 200,000 securities. IMC makes markets in the major exchange-traded instruments – equities, bonds, commodities, and currencies – on 100 exchanges worldwide and is a significant liquidity provider on the NYSE Arca, NASDAQ, CBOE, BATS, and CME exchanges.
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