Risk Manager

A leading global digital-asset trading platform is seeking a Trading Risk Control Specialist to strengthen its real-time market-surveillance and risk-management capabilities. This role acts as a core safeguard for the platform, ensuring market integrity, operational stability, and the protection of user and platform assets.

The ideal candidate brings deep market intuition, strong quantitative capability, and hands-on experience managing trading risk in fast-moving environments. You will work closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to design, optimize, and execute risk-control mechanisms across spot and derivatives markets.

Key Responsibilities

Market Surveillance & Risk Investigation

Monitor market behavior to identify abnormal price movements, sudden volume spikes, or liquidity distortions

Investigate potential market-manipulation patterns such as spoofing, pump-and-dump, or malicious price wicks

Analyse cross-account activity to detect collusion, orchestrated trading groups, and coordinated manipulation schemes

Risk Strategy Development & Systems Enhancement

Develop, test, and refine risk-control models, rules, and detection logic

Partner with engineering and product teams to implement automated monitoring and safeguards

Prepare structured reports on risk events, root-cause analysis, and remediation recommendations

Real-Time Risk Management

Respond rapidly to unfolding risk incidents, market disruptions, or suspicious trading activity

Manage real-time monitoring dashboards and escalation workflows

Execute immediate intervention measures to protect market fairness and platform stability

Qualifications

Required

Bachelors degree or higher in Financial Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related fields

3+ years experience in trading risk control within securities, futures, FX, or crypto-asset trading platforms

Strong understanding of digital-asset markets, trading mechanisms, and derivatives products

High analytical capability with proficiency in SQL / Python / R for data querying and investigation

Strong decision-making skills under pressure, with the ability to react quickly and accurately

Excellent communication, teamwork, and structured problem-solving ability

Preferred

Hands-on trading experience with insights into market microstructure and execution strategies

Professional certifications such as FRM