Maven is a technologically advanced proprietary trading organization founded in 2011 with office locations in London, Amsterdam, Chicago, New York, Hong Kong, and Monaco.

The company employs some of the most talented operational team members, traders, developers and engineers in the market and executes a diverse range of market-making and position-taking strategies across global derivatives, equities and debt instruments. Whilst the culture is relaxed and informal, Maven is a highly focused organisation that is rewarding of strong performance.

Maven’s Risk team is innovative in the way it controls and monitors the extensive trading activities carried out across the firm. We’re a global team, bringing together risk managers, technologists and developers to design and deploy new systems for the business whilst implementing risk processes and ensuring diligent and skilled monitoring of the firm-wide trading exposures.

This Risk Analyst role presents an excellent opportunity for an exceptional individual with core expertise focused on the management of market risks within our multi-strategy trading unit. The right individual will bring the skills required to ensure robust market risk monitoring and control, alongside contributing to the development of the risk processes and metrics applied across the broad range of fixed-income and equity instruments traded within our multi-strategy business. Whilst this role has a primary focus on the APAC region, the Risk Analyst will be part of a global risk team and will contribute to the market risk function across the business.

In this position, the Risk Analyst will work as the risk team’s APAC representative, supported by operational team members based locally and across other Maven locations.

The limits we set to facilitate risk management are monitored using custom risk systems and reports. The Risk Analyst will maintain and develop risk processes whilst carrying out diligent risk monitoring and limit enforcement. This represents a significant responsibility within the organisation, considering the volume and diversity of trades executed. The successful candidate will also be expected to interpret and develop risk metrics; helping to shape risk management whilst engaging with the broader team to provide input into the development of systems, controls and processes. To fulfil core aspects of the role, the Risk Analyst will also engage directly, and actively, with our trading teams.

If you have the skills we identify as important, combined with a natural curiosity for the financial markets and an understanding of trading and risk concepts, this role provides an excellent opportunity for you to leverage and develop your expertise as a market-leading Risk Analyst.

Role Specifications:

• Diligent risk monitoring on a real-time basis.
• Daily communication on risk issues and requirements within the risk team, with the CRO, and with stakeholders across trading and support functions.
• Market risk monitoring primarily focussed on proprietary trading within the multi-strategy group.
• Drawing on training and support provided by the team, provide risk monitoring for broader strategy groups, such as those related to credit and convertibles trading, long-short strategies, systematic alpha and options/volatility trading.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of the existing risk monitoring and reporting framework, working in conjunction with the risk team and with teams across the broader business.
• Collaborate with the global risk team to carry out risk-focused project work.
  
  
  

Candidate Specifications:

• Approximately 3 - 5 years of relevant experience, most likely gained working in proprietary trading or at a buy-side financial institution or multi-strategy platform.
• Core expertise working with equity instruments.
• Experience working with options is considered beneficial. As is a working knowledge of broader asset classes and trading strategies, such as fixed income instruments (and their derivatives), commodities, credit and / or convertibles.
• An advanced qualification in Finance or a STEM-related subject.
• Excellent report writing, presentation and communication skills.
• Good working knowledge of a programming language, such as Python, to support productivity and risk-related project work.
• A calm and considered approach, particularly whilst working under pressure.
  
  
  

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