Head of Risk

Who We Are

Your Role in Our Mission

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Stabilise the Book
• Reduce payout ratio variance and bring discipline to the firm’s primary health metric across CFD and Futures. Translate trader behaviour data into product-rule decisions that protect long-term sustainability without throttling the trader experience.

Audit, Then Build

• In your first 90 days, conduct an end-to-end gap analysis of our existing risk framework — surveillance tooling, policies, escalation paths, dealing operations integration. From that diagnostic, design and implement a risk operating model fit for FundedNext’s scale through 2028.

Lead Crypto Risk Readiness

• Design risk policies, surveillance models, drawdown rules, and operational guardrails for the Crypto programme launching. Crypto carries different volatility, exposure, and abuse patterns than CFD or Futures — your work here defines whether we launch safely.

Hunt Fraud and Abuse

• Strengthen detection and response to multi-account abuse, identity fraud, and toxic trading patterns. Partner with Engineering, Data, Compliance, and Customer Operations to build a defensible, scalable abuse-prevention capability.

Partner Across the Firm

• Be the trusted risk voice in product design, dealing operations, engineering, compliance, and analytics. Influence — and where required, veto — decisions that materially shift FundedNext’s risk profile. You will report directly to the CEO and have the authority to escalate independently when material risk events demand it.

What You Bring

• 8–12 years of risk experience across prop trading, CFD brokerage, or multi-asset financial services.
• Genuine multi-asset fluency — you understand CFD, Futures, and ideally Crypto economics, instruments, and abuse patterns.
• A track record of building or rebuilding a risk function — frameworks, policies, surveillance tooling, team.
• Hands-on credibility on B-book and dealing operations; you have personal exposure to payout ratio management at scale.
• Strong cross-functional influence — you can hold your own with Product, Engineering, and Trading leaders.
• Comfort with ambiguity — you can step into an under-defined function and bring clarity quickly.
• Excellent communication — to traders, to your CEO, to your future board.

Your X-Factor

• What sets the strongest candidates apart:
• You have personal scar tissue from a payout-ratio crisis or major abuse incident — and you can talk about how you turned it around.
• You speak the language of data and engineering well enough to design surveillance models with quants and ML engineers, even if you don’t write production code yourself.
• You have led risk policy design for a new asset class launch — ideally Crypto.
• You think about trader experience and risk economics in the same sentence — not as opposing forces.
• You see AI and machine learning as the future of risk surveillance and bring opinions about how to deploy them responsibly.

Your Journey After Applying

• Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team.
• 60 minutes interview with management team and HoD