Risk Manager
Venture Capital
Dubai
Negotiable
Responsibilities:
1. Risk Monitoring and Management:
• Oversee and monitor exposure, deltas, and ensure compliance within the trading team.
• Create and parameterize risk metrics for external teams and fine-tune risk parameters for internal teams.
• Manage risk across the entire company, ensuring that all trading activities adhere to set risk parameters.
2. Operational Activities:
• Establish and maintain workflows for monitoring risk metrics and automating processes.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools to track and visualize risk metrics.
• Understand the origin and rationale behind various metrics and their impact on the trading strategies.
3. Arbitrage and Portfolio Management:
• Monitor and ensure beta-neutral portfolios and delta-neutral positions within the trading strategies.
• Ensure adherence to investment agreements and regulatory requirements.
4. Factor Analysis:
• Conduct factor analysis to assess the potential impact of market changes on the portfolio.
• Analyze the extent to which the portfolio reflects market movements and identify areas of risk exposure.
• Experience in factor analysis is not mandatory but would be an advantage.
Requirements:
• Basic proficiency in Python for data analysis and automation.
• Proven experience in risk management within a proprietary trading environment.
• Strong understanding of risk metrics, exposure, deltas, and their implications on trading strategies.
• Experience in creating and managing dashboards and reporting tools.
• Familiarity with arbitrage trading and beta-neutral portfolio management.
• Ability to ensure compliance with investment agreements and regulatory standards.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to understand and explain the structure and origin of risk metrics.