Market Risk Specialist

ACT

$120K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor or Master in Finance, Economics, Statistics, or Econometrics
  • 5-7 years of experience in market risk in commodity trading or top financial institutions
  • Strong market analysis and financial assessment skills
  • Experience with Python programming
  • Intellectual curiosity and structured problem-solving abilities
  • Confident verbal and written communication skills for stakeholder management

Responsibilities

  • Build and enhance market risk reporting tools, automating and streamlining processes
  • Create market risk models and provide advisory to traders
  • Develop measurement methods for market risk and understand process flows
  • Monitor daily market risk, stress, and Value at Risk (VaR) exposures
  • Manage risk assessments for new product lines in collaboration with traders
  • Update and enforce market risk policies and procedures
  • Process large data sets using SQL and maintain codebases for performance

Benefits

  • International workplace
  • Business and communication training programs
  • Engaging activities and events (ACT activities)
  • Hybrid work policy
  • Lunch discounts
  • 14 industry and product knowledge programs
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Market Risk Specialist
  • New York, United States
  • Risk
  • Hybrid


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Your Role in Our Story:

In essence, your role involves:
  • Build, maintain and improve market risk reporting infrastructure and tools, including the automation and streamlining of existing processes
  • Create market risk models and advise traders on pending deals
  • Develop market risk measurement methods and understand process flows
  • Daily monitor of market risk, stress and Value at Risk (VaR) exposures against limits and risk appetite, while remaining constantly aware of current market dynamics
  • Manage market risk assessments for new product lines, working with traders to understand their markets
  • Create, update, present and enforce market risk policies and procedures
  • Process and analyze large data sets using SQL while maintaining and updating codebases to ensure performance and scalability
  • Perform stress testing and develop risk mitigation strategies


Your Expertise:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes:
  • Bachelor or Master of Finance, Economic, Statistics or Econometrics
  • 5-7 years of experience in market risk within commodity trading or a leading financial institution
  • Strong market analysis and financial assessment capabilities
  • Experience with Python is essential
  • Intellectually curious and able to demonstrate structures problem solving and analytical skills
  • Confident communication (verbal and written) with stakeholder management

Please note: this role is 100% in-office in New York City

The base pay range for this position is $120K- $160K annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The base pay is just one component of the total competitive compensation package for employees.

If you meet these criteria and are ready to contribute your expertise to a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply.

Our commitment to you:

International Workplace

Business and Communication Related Trainings

Exciting ACT activities

Hybrid work policy

Lunch Discount

14 programs for industry and product knowledge

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