Trading and Risk Advisor — CFD

Who We Are

Your Role in Our Mission

Trading Operations & Execution Oversight

• Advise on the end-to-end CFD trading operations stack across FX, indices, commodities, equity CFDs, and crypto CFDs.
• Oversee electronic execution logic, pricing engines, and aggregation of liquidity from multiple liquidity providers.
• Define and monitor execution quality and market-impact KPIs; recommend improvements to spread, slippage, fill-rate performance and risk frameworks.
• Advise on A-book / B-book routing logic, internalisation strategy, and the conditions under which client flow is hedged externally.
• Translate trading strategy into detailed execution playbooks, monitoring tools, and operational guidelines for dealing and trading teams.
• Define and implement a customer profile based on trading strategies on multiple levels.

Risk Framework Design & Production Oversight

• Design and supervise risk frameworks covering market exposure, abusive trading activities, and execution risk for the CFD book.
• Set and review limits at instrument, asset class, client tier, and book level; advise on stress testing and scenario analysis.
• Advise on hedging strategies for residual exposure, including timing, venue selection, and cost-of-hedge analytics.
• Provide oversight of client risk profiles and leverage frameworks
• Act as the subject-matter expert for trading and risk infrastructure, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and operational resilience under stress.
• Propose the architecture of the abuse detection framework, risk parameters, and behavioural constraints that govern the trader population

Liquidity & Risk Infrastructure

• Advise on selection, onboarding, and ongoing review of liquidity providers, prime brokers (PoPs), and technology vendors.
• Support negotiation of commercial and operational terms with LPs and PoPs
• Recommend improvements to trading infrastructure resilience, monitoring, and incident response.
• Identify platform vulnerabilities and exploit patterns and recommend countermeasures

What You Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 8+ years of progressive trading experience, including significant exposure to senior dealing, market making, or trading risk roles within a regulated brokerage, market maker, or trading firm.
• Deep expertise in CFDs or comparable OTC derivative products across at least two of: FX, indices, commodities, equity CFDs, crypto CFDs.
• Proven track record of running or advising on live execution and risk in production environments — not purely model or research work.
• Direct experience with A-book / B-book risk frameworks, hedging strategy, and client flow analysis.
• Strong understanding of electronic execution: aggregation, order routing, latency, mark-up logic, and post-trade analytics.
• Working fluency in Python and SQL for trading data analysis, KPI design, and ad-hoc investigations.
• Experience with regulated entities under at least one of ASIC, CySEC, FCA, DFSA, FSCA, Labuan FSA, SC Malaysia, or comparable regulators.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, adept at navigating executive and cross-regional complexities.
• High integrity, discretion, and resilience in high-performance, confidential trading environments.

Your X-Factor

• Combines market intuition with engineering rigor — designing trading systems that balance speed, control, and resilience.
• Speaks the language of both markets and code, bridging traders, quants, engineers, and risk teams with equal fluency.
• Thrives in complexity — bringing structure and clarity to fast-moving, multi-jurisdictional trading environments.
• Champions a culture of operational excellence rooted in transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Your Journey After Applying

• 30-minute HR Session with the Talent Acquisition team
• 60-minute Session with the Top Management

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