Head of Risk Management recruitment

Responsibilities

•Managing and leading the local Risk Management team (4 pers.) in Amsterdam.
•Identifying and monitoring sources risk.
•Further developing the framework of Risk Management: tools, processes, procedures.
•Monitoring key risk metrics. Taking action where necessary to prevent or resolve breaches.
•Informing and pro-actively advising Global Hd. of Risk Mngt. and the board of relevant risk-related issues and developments.

•Monitoring and managing market risk, as well as counterparty, operational, settlement, and other forms of risk.
•Maintaining and expanding the Risk Management Framework of tools, reports, processes, checks balances.

  • (Assist in) designing tools or processes which allow risks to be monitored, measured and limited more efficiently as well as more accurately.
    oDetermining functionality requirements for such tools.
    oGuide teams (Risk Mngt, Software Dev’t, IT) in building and implementing such tools.
    •Monitoring (potential) limits and breaches, ensuring appropriate (avoiding) action is taken.
    •Monitoring profitability and cash/margin utilisation, and optimising cash usage across accounts, trading desks, strategies.
    •Determining the risks of new trading strategies together with involved parties.
    •Setting and monitoring compliance with counterparty limits.

    Requirements

    •University degree, preferably Economics or Business, with focus on Finance or Markets.
    •5 years of relevant work experience in Risk Management
    •3 years of relevant experience in a leadership or management position.
    •Direct exposure to a trading environment and to financial markets.
    •Experience with various types of risk management: market risk, counterparty risk, etc.
    •Good written and spoken command of the English language.
    •Good knowledge of financial markets and products.
    •Familiarity with at least one machine language (VBA, C++, Python, Java, others) is a plus.