Margin Operations
Senior overnight margin risk professional responsible for real-time margin surveillance, escalation decisions, and maintaining platform risk posture during non-standard hours. Requires 4-10+ years in margin/clearing operations at an exchange, clearinghouse, or broker-dealer.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Monitor margin positions, exposure, and collateral levels across Kalshi's markets in real time during overnight hours
- Identify and escalate margin deficiencies, unusual position concentrations, and risk limit breaches in accordance with established thresholds and procedures
- Execute margin calls and manage the end-to-end margin call lifecycle including issuance, tracking, and resolution
- Perform end-of-day and overnight reconciliations across clearing accounts, ensuring accuracy of margin calculations and collateral postings
- Coordinate with clearing members, counterparties, and custodians to resolve margin disputes and settlement issues
- Monitor market activity and liquidity conditions overnight, flagging developments that could affect risk exposure
- Maintain and update risk operations runbooks, escalation procedures, and shift handoff documentation
- Support the build-out of automated monitoring tools and contribute to process improvements that reduce manual risk in overnight operations
What You Bring
- 4–10+ years of experience in margin operations, clearing operations, or market risk at an exchange, clearinghouse, FCM, or broker-dealer
- Deep familiarity with margin methodologies, initial margin, variation margin, intraday margin calls, and collateral management
- Experience operating in a real-time risk monitoring capacity, including making independent escalation decisions under pressure
- Strong understanding of cleared derivatives, futures, or event contracts and their associated risk mechanics
- Comfort working overnight or non-standard hours as the primary risk operations coverage
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, or similar tools for data analysis and monitoring
- Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to stay sharp and decisive during high-pressure overnight situations
- Strong written communication skills — shift handoffs and escalation memos need to be clear and actionable
Skills
Python, SQL, Margin Operations, Clearing Operations, Market Risk, Margin Methodologies, Initial Margin, Variation Margin, Intraday Margin Calls, Collateral Management, Cleared Derivatives, Futures, Event Contracts
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