CareerPlan

Risk Manager - Active Trading

ChicagoFull-time$120k2026-10-02 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Monitor and manage risk exposures, margin requirements, and liquidation events for individual professional and active traders across multi-asset portfolios.

Role type

Senior Risk Manager (Active Trading)

Builds

Risk frameworks, margin methodologies, and reporting infrastructure for active trading clients

Domain

Financial Services / Capital Markets / Active Trading

Deliverable

dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Risk monitoring, margin calculation, client liquidation execution, regulatory compliance (Reg T, portfolio margin), equity and options pricing, Python, SQL, Bloomberg

Preferred skills

Active/retail brokerage risk experience, high-frequency trading risk knowledge, CFA/FRM designation, options Greeks

Technologies

Python, SQL, Bloomberg, ICE, FactSet

Responsibilities

Monitor intraday and end-of-day risk exposures and margin requirements; Identify and respond to outsized risk events and execute client liquidation trades; Serve as primary risk point of contact for Active clients; Develop and maintain robust margin and stress-testing methodologies; Generate automated risk reporting and collaborate on infrastructure improvements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC