Lead high - impact GI risk oversight in a growing business where your challenge, insight and expertise directly influence key decisions.
About the role
- Risk Manager overseeing market risk and client risk in a fast-growing forex/CFD brokerage. Collaborating cross-functionally to ensure robust controls and effective risk management.
Responsibilities
- We’re hiring a Risk Manager to strengthen and scale our risk function across a fast-growing forex/CFD brokerage environment.
- You will own day-to-day market risk and client risk oversight, drive risk policy execution, and partner with Dealing, Compliance, Operations, Product, and Tech to ensure robust controls, clean flows, and a resilient risk framework.
- Monitor real-time and end-of-day net exposure, concentration risk, and volatility risk across instruments (FX, metals, indices, crypto, etc.).
- Define and maintain risk limits: exposure caps, concentration thresholds, margin buffers, and escalation rules.
- Partner with Dealing to manage hedging logic (where relevant), execution quality, and abnormal market conditions.
- Detect and investigate abusive or high-risk behaviors: latency arbitrage, bonus abuse, toxic flow, hedging abuse, spoofing-like patterns, scalping anomalies, etc.
- Implement and optimize risk flags, segmentation rules, and client profiling.
- Collaborate with Compliance on AML-red-flags overlap and suspicious behaviors.
- Own dashboards and reporting: exposures, PnL drivers, client cohorts, exceptions, incidents.
- Improve risk efficiency by reducing manual work through workflows and tooling.
Requirements
- 3+ years in a Risk role within Forex/CFD brokerage, prop trading, liquidity provider, or similar trading environment.
- Strong knowledge of: Margin/leverage mechanics, exposure management, stop-out logic
- Market microstructure basics, volatility regimes, news risk
- Client behavior patterns and trading abuse typologies
- Experience with MT4/MT5 (manager/admin reports) and practical risk monitoring.
- High analytical capability (Excel advanced; BI tools a plus) and ability to translate data into decisions.
- Clear communication and ability to operate with senior stakeholders under time pressure.
- Experience implementing risk rules/alerts via BI, SQL, Python, or internal tooling (Nice-to-Have).
- Familiarity with liquidity/prime brokerage setups (A-Book/B-Book hybrid models) (Nice-to-Have).
- Previous work in regulated environments (CySEC, MFSA, SCA, etc.) (Nice-to-Have).
- Experience designing bonus/promotion risk controls and eligibility frameworks (Nice-to-Have).
Benefits
- High-ownership role with direct impact on trading performance and risk resilience.
- Multi-location flexibility (Cyprus/Malta/Dubai/Jordan/Remote) with a global team.
- Competitive compensation aligned to experience + performance upside.
- Strong growth runway and autonomy to build best-in-class risk systems.
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