Prime Brokerage Risk Manager

The role

You will own risk across business lines by creating and executing risk frameworks. You will cover global markets across multi assets portfolios.

What you will do

• Serve as a primary point of contact for clients regarding portfolio onboarding, risk reviews, and risk management.
• Monitor intraday and end-of-day risk exposures and margin requirements.
• Track global markets through OMS and risk systems and escalate material issues.
• Develop and maintain margin, risk, and stress-testing methodologies.
• Generate and automate ad-hoc reporting for risk factors and portfolio exposures.
• Communicate critical risk observations to senior management and external clients.
• Support development and enhancement of risk and margin platforms.
• Collaborate with technology and product teams to improve infrastructure.

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience in prime brokerage risk, trading risk, or related roles covering equities and fixed income.
• Minimum of 8 years of overall professional experience in financial services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or Financial Engineering.
• Solid understanding of equity and fixed income products, including fundamental options pricing and associated risk measures.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and capital/margin rules applicable to risk management.
• Strong communication skills to engage with clients and regulators.
• Proactive, collaborative, and a strong team player with a high sense of ownership.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Analytical and detail-oriented with strong quantitative aptitude.
• Experience in risk policy development and implementation.
• Familiarity with industry-standard tools such as Bloomberg, ICE, FactSet, etc.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree
• Proficiency in Python and SQL

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• Company equity
• Pension
• Gender neutral parental leave
• Full medical and dental insurance

About the company

Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm building a cloud-native clearing and custody system. The Clear Street UK team is bringing its equities, options and fixed-income prime brokerage business to a new market.