Full-Time
Market Risk Analyst
Updated on 4/10/2024
Provides liquidity and hedging in financial markets
Venture Capital
Mid
Chicago, IL, USA
Required Skills
Python
Communications
Requirements
- 3+ years of risk and/or derivatives experience with various financial products like futures and options, as well as energy/commodities experience.
- Experience understanding and monitoring exchange margin requirements and calculations.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and organization skills.
- Experience with Excel, Python, and/or VBA.
- Strong interest in the financial markets.
- Must be able to work both independently and as part of a team - should demonstrate curiosity, initiative, self-sufficiency, and the ability to learn quickly.
Responsibilities
- Monitor the firm’s trading activities and identify potential scenarios and positions that pose threats to the firm and individual trading groups.
- Review the firm’s and individual trading group’s daily margin requirements and resolve any issues related to the exchange requirements.
- Maintain and monitor the firm’s proprietary risk models.
- Generate firm overview reports such as VAR, stress testing, intraday PnL, and various trading strategies, and flag any issues that are standing out.
- Liaison between the clearing firms and traders on notices sent from the clearing firms, including option assignments, buy-in notices, and expiration notices.
- Work collaboratively with the back office and operations to build upon and develop automated reporting and optimized risk processes/frameworks.
DV Trading is a North American-based proprietary trading firm that provides liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users.
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
2006
Growth & Insights
Headcount