Risk Manager

The Risk Manager / Dealer is responsible for managing market, liquidity, and client trading risk across the CFD platform. This role oversees real-time exposure, pricing, hedging strategies, and trade execution while ensuring the brokerage operates within defined risk limits and regulatory requirements. The position combines dealing desk operations with risk oversight to protect the firm’s profitability and stability.

Risk Management

• Monitor real-time client exposure across all CFD instruments (FX, indices, commodities, crypto, equities).
• Define, implement, and enforce risk limits (per instrument, client, and group).
• Analyze trading patterns to identify toxic flow, arbitrage strategies, latency abuse, or market manipulation.
• Manage risk exposure, including internalization and external hedging decisions.
• Stress-test portfolios and assess potential impact of market volatility and news events.

Dealing & Trade Execution

• Oversee trade execution quality and price feeds from liquidity providers.
• Ensure accurate pricing, spreads, swaps, and contract specifications.
• Intervene in exceptional market conditions (e.g., gaps, high volatility, illiquidity).
• Execute hedging trades with liquidity providers when required.
• Coordinate symbol halts, leverage changes, or margin adjustments during extreme market events.

Platform & System Oversight

• Configure and manage trading platform risk settings (margin, leverage, stop-out levels).
• Monitor system performance and execution during high-volume periods.
• Work closely with IT and platform providers to resolve pricing or execution issues.

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure trading and risk practices comply with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Maintain audit trails and documentation for risk decisions and dealer interventions.
• Support compliance and regulatory reporting related to trading risk.

Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly risk and P&L reports.
• Analyze client profitability, instrument performance, and exposure concentration.
• Provide insights and recommendations to senior management on risk strategy.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From AED15,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• How do you monitor and manage real-time trading risk across multiple instruments, and what indicators tell you when intervention is required?
• Describe your approach to deciding when client risk should be internalized versus externally hedged, especially during volatile market conditions.
• How do you profile clients from a risk perspective, and which behavioral or trading metrics do you rely on most to assess their risk level?

Experience:

• MT5 Dealing Operations : 5 years (Required)
• Risk Management : 4 years (Required)

Location:

• Dubai (Required)

Work Location: In person