# Global Head of Risk Management

**Company:** [Geneva Trading](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/geneva-trading)
**Location:** Chicago, IL
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $225k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Risk Management, var, historical simulation, stress testing, greeks, futures, options, derivatives, regulatory reporting, dodd-frank, mifid ii
**Posted:** 2026-06-18

> The Global Head of Risk Management develops and enhances the firm's risk framework, builds analytical risk models, monitors trading risk in real-time, manages the global risk team, and collaborates with traders and executives on risk issues in a derivatives trading environment. Requires 7+ years as a senior risk manager in derivatives trading, quantitative degree, and deep knowledge of futures, options, and regulations.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and drive enhancements to the firm’s Risk Framework
- Update and maintain the firm’s Risk Manual as necessary
- Work closely with Senior Management on identifying and assessing risks of potential and existing business lines
- Participate in several management meetings per month
- Supervise and manage all employees of the Risk team globally
- Model, analyze, and optimize existing and new risk matrices
- Drive the development and implementation of analytical risk models to provide insight into the firm’s various trading activities
- Monitor risk on a real time basis, leveraging our monitoring and analysis framework to identify and communicate important risk-related information to traders and management
- Interpret and utilize quantitative results from risk reporting efforts and communicate these effectively
- Work directly with traders and senior management on escalated risk issues
- Collaborate with trading and development team members to design and employ risk controls in Geneva’s proprietary execution software
- Conduct regulatory reporting as required
- Manage trading limits and trading software risk settings within the firm
- Receive training for new asset classes that the firm intends to participate in

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or above in a quantitative discipline (physics, finance, economics, econometrics, statistics, mathematics, or equivalent experience)
- At least 7 years’ relevant experience as a Senior Risk Manager in a derivatives trading environment
- Experience with futures, options, cryptocurrency, and power trading strategies and risk management
- Experience building various models to evaluate and represent derivative market risk, including Historical Simulation, VaR, Scenario Analysis/Stress Testing, Greeks, Option profiles, etc.
- Experience dealing directly with traders on risk-related issues
- Experience and comfort dealing directly with senior management on risk-related issues
- Deep understanding of futures and options trading (Fixed Income, FX, Equities, Commodities, etc.) and their Greeks
- Detailed knowledge of exchange traded derivative products with an emphasis on their risk characteristics
- Ability to handle high pressure situations
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage others
- Desire to work in a fast paced, collaborative, and entrepreneurial environment
- Deep understanding of US, European and Asian regulatory environments including Dodd-Frank, Regulation Automated Trading (Reg AT), MiFID II and Japanese HST

## Nice-to-Haves
- CFA, JD, and/or MBA
- Trading through or managing risk through a market-crisis (i.e. 9/11 or 2008 events)

## Compensation
Base Salary Range: $225,000 - $300,000, plus eligibility for a performance-based bonus.
Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s skills, experience, education, and qualifications. In addition to base salary, Geneva Trading offers a competitive total rewards package, including a comprehensive benefits program.

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