Risk Manager (Market Risk)

Flow Traders is looking for a Risk Manager to join our Risk team in New York. This role will focus heavily on market risk from a data and systems perspective, ensuring we have the accuracy, structure, and visibility needed to monitor risk effectively across our trading portfolios. The ideal candidate is meticulous, analytical, and passionate about data quality and transforming data into insights about the portfolio. You’ll work closely with risk team members, traders, and developers to enhance our understanding of risk exposures in real time.

This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.

What you will do

• Enhance and manage risk data processes to ensure accurate and complete assessment of market risk across Flow Traders’ portfolio
• Build and enrich real-time data flows to support risk calculations, capital requirements, and exposure monitoring
• Conduct systematic analysis of exposures: validate data accuracy, reconcile data processes, and ensure consistency across systems
• Improve data categorization, mappings, and use of static data to enrich risk reporting and analysis
• Work with internal teams to ensure real-time risk systems reflect current trading activity with high precision
• Support second-line oversight of spread-based market risk, requiring a strong grasp of nuanced exposures

What you need to succeed

• 3+ years of relevant experience in market risk, preferably within a trading floor environment
• Strong understanding of financial instruments, particularly equities, fixed income, FX, and derivatives
• Proven experience working with real-time data feeds, reconciliations, and risk-related data infrastructure
• Proficient in SQL, Python, and Excel (VBA); comfortable working with complex datasets
• Highly detail-oriented and precise, especially when validating and reconciling risk exposure data
• Strong analytical thinker with excellent communication skills; collaborative across technical and trading teams
• Degree in Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or related field

At Flow Traders, we acknowledge the importance of open and transparent communication whether it be with our employees, our stakeholders, or our local and global communities. When it comes to salary, Flow Traders uses reliable market research to create base ranges. Where candidates will fall within the range depends on a few different factors including but not limited to level of experience, location, and specific skill set. We also consider ourselves one global team, and to demonstrate that, all employees are eligible to share in the company’s success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group and individual performance and contribution. 

Per NYC salary transparency law, the total compensation for this role includes a base range of $128,000 to $160,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.