Risk Management Associate

Maven is a technologically advanced proprietary trading organization founded in 2011 with office locations in London, Amsterdam, Chicago, New York, Hong Kong, and Monaco. The company employs some of the most talented traders, developers, engineers and operational team members in the market and executes a diverse range of market-making and position-taking strategies across global derivatives, equities and debt instruments. Whilst the culture is relaxed and informal, Maven is a highly focused organisation that is rewarding of strong performance.

Maven’s Risk team is innovative in the way it controls and monitors the extensive trading activities carried out across the firm. We’re a global team, bringing together risk managers, technologists and developers to design and deploy new systems for the business whilst implementing risk processes and ensuring diligent and skilled monitoring of the firm-wide trading exposures.

In this position, the Risk Management Associate will work in London alongside established risk team members across Hong Kong and Chicago offices. The successful candidate will learn about the variety of business activities we carry out and the strategies we employ, alongside providing the first line of risk management control.

The limits we set to facilitate risk management are monitored by our proprietary risk systems. As Maven continues to grow and to implement new strategies, our risk monitoring systems, controls and processes expand, increa

sing in their complexity and sophistication. The Risk Management Associate will be required to update and maintain the daily risk processes and to carry out diligent risk monitoring; a significant responsibility considering the volume and diversity of trades executed. In addition, the successful candidate will also be expected to interpret and develop risk metrics; helping to shape our risk management processes whilst engaging with the broader team to provide input into the development of our systems, controls and processes. Alongside this, the Risk Management Associate will also engage and communicate with traders based in Europe and, indeed, across our global trading locations.

If you thrive in a fast paced environment, have a natural curiosity for the financial markets and an understanding of trading and risk concepts, we can help you develop into a market-leading Risk Management Associate.

Role Specifications:

• Diligent risk monitoring on a real-time basis.
• Daily communication on risk issues and requirements within the risk team, and with stakeholders across trading and support functions.
• Market risk monitoring for options market-making and for proprietary trading within the multi-strategy group