Senior Manager - Market Risk

Overview

Class: Full-time AND Permanent

Legal Entity: StoneX Financial Pte. Ltd.

Company Overview:

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity.    With 5,400+ employees and over 80,000 institutional, commercial, and payments clients, we operate from more than 80 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.  

 

Job purpose

 

Monitor the market, credit, operational and liquidity risks of the business. Facilitate the execution of risk management processes to assist in the achievement of the business objectives of the organisation whilst ensuring effective risk mitigation.

Responsibilities

General Duties

• Monitoring Risk of several business lines(Commodities, Precisous Metals, Securities,etc)

• Perform daily Risk Management tasks, ensuring internal policies and procedures are adhered to.

• To recommend credit and trading limits for customers and counterparties that remain within the defined risk appetite of the company.

• Oversee assigned risk limits and evaluate limit increase requests.

• Understand how the Firm’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.

• Assisting to ensure infrastructure, controls and procedures for all existing and future activities conducted by the organization are in place to ensure effective risk management.

• Assist the Head of Risk-Asia to evaluates the adequacy of the Company’s methodologies and controls with respect to business, credit, operational and strategic risk management.

• Collaborates with front office to implement market risk policies at a business unit level.

• Serves as a point of escalation for key risk issues or time sensitive decisions.

• Provides technical input into the areas of risk measurement, risk integration, risk/return analysis and new business / product proposals.

• Builds and maintains professional relationships with Front Office, other departments, customers, etc.

 This list of responsibilities may not be all-inclusive and can be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree

• 10 years of directly relevant risk management experience in managing market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk.

• In-depth knowledge and experience on specific products including trading and market characteristics, pricing, market liquidity and volatility, covering on-exchange and OTC.

• Knowledge of commodities futures and options, including market infrastructure and understanding of operational matters.

• Decisiveness with the ability to form an independent opinion, communicate this opinion effectively and take action within the scope of authority.

• Understanding of the Financial Services infrastructure including Exchanges, Clearing Houses, payment transmission systems and delivery/settlement structures.

• A quantitative and analytical approach to risk assessment and credit decision making.

• Strong financial modeling skills and the ability to isolate risk through models and historical data and also build important qualitative risk factors into the process.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to clearly and effectively communicate risk management procedures and decisions.

• Perform under pressure in a dynamic environment, with the ability to handle numerous tasks simultaneously, and prioritise.

Qualification and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.