Head of Risk MENA (CFD)
Responsibilities:Strategic Risk Leadership: Own and drive the CFD risk strategy for MENA, aligned with global priorities, the business plan, and CMA expectations.
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Strategic Risk Leadership: Own and drive the CFD risk strategy for MENA, aligned with global priorities, the business plan, and CMA expectations.Market and Trading Risk Oversight: Oversee exposure management, leverage and margin frameworks, client concentration limits, gap risk controls, and hedging effectiveness.
Provide independent challenge on risk exposure and risk transfer decisions.
Counterparty and Credit Risk: Set and monitor risk limits for liquidity providers, prime brokers, banks, and key counterparties.
Oversee counterparty due diligence, concentration risk, and contingency planning for counterparty disruption.
Liquidity and Capital Oversight: Oversee liquidity risk and capital adequacy monitoring in line with CMA requirements.
Lead stress testing and scenario analysis covering market shocks, client behavior, liquidity withdrawal, and operational disruption.
Client and Conduct Risk: Provide second line oversight of product governance, disclosures, appropriateness controls, complaints root cause trends, and key conduct outcomes impacting clients.
Execution and Pricing Risk Oversight: Oversee risks related to pricing integrity, data feeds, execution quality, slippage controls, and best execution governance.
Ensure clear controls over price spikes, outliers, and execution incidents.
Operational and Technology Risk: Oversee operational risk across trading operations, incident management, cybersecurity risk oversight, access controls, change management, and operational resilience testing.
Outsourcing and Third Party Risk: Set the third party risk framework covering technology vendors, market data providers, execution partners, payment partners, and outsourced operations.
Ensure robust due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and exit plans.
Monitoring and Reporting: Maintain the risk register and KRIs.
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