Overview
With 4,500+ employees and over 300,000 commercial, institutional, payments, and retail clients, we operate from more than 70 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.
Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.
Business Segments Overview:
Institutional: Immerse yourself in the best-in-class institutional-grade technology, working alongside industry experts and gaining exposure to various asset classes, such as equities, options, fixed income securities, and advanced trading, research, and management technology.
Retail: Empower individual investors – and yourself – in the world of retail through a range of different financial products rooted in innovation and market intelligence. From FX and CFDs to precious metals, master an exciting world of wealth management tools.
Commercial: With boots on the ground authenticity at the heart of everything we do, our comprehensive array of commercial products and services enable you to work directly with our clients, across hedging, risk management, execution and clearing, OTC products, commodity finance and more.
Payments: A Swift-accredited service bureau and member, our Payments division provides NGOs, institutions and non-profits the ability to make a local difference, globally – with transparent pricing across 180+ countries and 140+ currencies.
Corporate: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.
Position purpose:
The Risk Valuation Group is responsible for understanding, implementing and ensuring uniform valuation processes, practices and modelling across all StoneX entities. The group also works closely with the Market Risk teams to research appropriate margining methodologies and trading limits. The instruments range from spot transactions to exotic options across almost all asset classes with a heavy emphasis in currencies, energy, metals, and soft commodities.
This role will work in coordination with the London Risk Valuations Team and the broader US-based Risk Valuation group.
Responsibilities
Primary Accountabilities:
- Develop complete understanding of firm-wide trading positions, systems, models, data inputs and pricing sources to ensure completeness, accuracy and validity of prices and margins.
- With Market Risk, research various instruments and margining methodologies and risk model parameters.
- Analyse and provide recommendations to improve the processes and procedures for ensuring accurate, daily mark-to-market of customer and company positions.
- Contribute to testing, maintenance, and implementation of new risk models and systems.
- Carry out periodic and ad-hoc risk analytics on clients, trading books, and products to inform risk-management decisions
- Participate in risk model validation reviews with other risk, back-office and front-office personnel or groups.
- Participate in new product/system reviews and represent the Risk Valuation group point of view.
- Build working relationships with risk strategy, risk compliance, front-office IT and back-office IT to accomplish all the tasks of the Risk Valuation group.
Qualifications
To land this role you will need:
- Bachelors and Masters’ degrees in Financial Engineering/Maths/Computer Science/Finance.
- Good analytical and problem solving skills.
- Team player
- Strong organisational skills with an interest in working in a fast-paced environment, often balancing multiple high priority deliverables.
Permanent, full time,
