Senior Market Risk Manager

5 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia JS Careers Full time

Sydney, NSW | Full-time | Financial Markets

An opportunity to step into a high-impact Market Risk leadership role within a fast-moving Clearing & Execution environment. This position sits at the centre of daily trading, liquidity, and exposure oversight—ideal for someone who thrives in fast markets, tight controls, and direct influence at executive level.

The Role

You'll lead market and liquidity risk monitoring across equities, derivatives, fixed income, and FX. Sitting close to daily trading flows, you'll own exposure oversight, margin processes, liquidity reporting, and emerging-risk analysis across client and house activity.

A major part of this role is
designing, building, and delivering a new Market Risk Framework
. The organisation is undertaking a
full rewrite of its market-risk frameworks
, giving you the opportunity to build something scalable, modern, and fit for purpose from the ground up. You'll uplift governance, reshape controls, and implement new tools and processes that will form the foundation of the next decade of growth.

You'll also enhance reporting to senior leadership and the Board, strengthen risk systems, and support capital, settlement, and regulatory interactions.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Monitor intraday & end-of-day exposures, limits, liquidity, and margin utilisation
  • Oversee variation & initial margin processes and exposure reporting
  • Lead the full rebuild of the Market Risk Framework
    , including policies, controls, stress testing & governance
  • Prepare risk reports for execs, committees, and the Board
  • Drive system improvements across OMS/ECS/custody, data integrity, and risk dashboards
  • Work closely with Operations, Treasury, Compliance & Technology
  • Support client onboarding from a risk perspective
  • Engage with regulators & auditors on exposure, capital, and assurance matters

What You Bring

  • 5-8 years in market risk, treasury, exposure management, or related functions within a broker-dealer, clearing participant, or custodian
  • Strong understanding of ASX Clear/ASX Settlement frameworks & margining
  • Familiarity with RG 166, RG 212, GS 007
  • Advanced Excel; SQL or Python a bonus
  • Ability to distil complex risk concepts for senior stakeholders

Why This Role?

You'll operate with clear visibility to the CEO/COO, influence key decisions daily, and
architect the market-risk foundations of a growing Clearing & Execution business
. High trust, high accountability, and the chance to build a framework that genuinely transforms how risk is managed—impact from day one.

Please contact Henry Smith on to discuss further or apply here.

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