Risk Manager Fund / Prop recruitment

Alexander Black Recruitment is urgently looking for a Risk Manager to join our high profile client.

Our client is a fund and prop trading house with specialization in energy and commodities with a London office of 25 people and an AUM of £500 million.

I am looking for a risk manager with experience ideally from commodity markets or fixed income markets to manage risk for the different trading books, funds and the overall risk of the group. The candidate should ideally have experience from banking and fund management environment with experience of building and developing a risk management infrastructure.

This is a standalone role running all the risk for the fund. They currently have their own in house risk system which my client has built in python and MySQL. As the risk manager you will alter the current system and have full authority on any elements to risk.

There is an opportunity for the risk manager for personal development and to gain experience by working on new businesses across the group. E.g. currently be to be responsible for project managing and coordinate the design, technical development and roll-out of my clients electronic trading platform.

Candidates MUST have:

This role suits a candidate who has had some experience probably in a team and is looking to take on sole responsibility in a fund. This is a serious position with good growth and autonomy. This is a step UP the career ladder.

My client is based in London

If this sounds of interest then please send your most recent cv to banking@alexanderblackrecruitment.co.uk or call James Holland on 0207 590 3681