Head of Risk

A leading systematic trading firm operating at the cutting edge of high-frequency and medium-frequency trading across APAC and beyond are building out the risk function and looking for an exceptional quantitative risk professional to join the Singapore office. With a world-class technology infrastructure, deep proprietary datasets, and the capital to scale winning strategies rapidly this is a fantastic opportunity to advance your career.

The Role

You will own the firm's quantitative risk framework — designing, building, and maintaining the models and systems that monitor market risk, position limits, and exposure across our trading book. As a member of the firm's Risk Committee, you will have direct input into risk governance at the highest level and carry oversight responsibility for the global risk function. You will work closely with trading and engineering teams to ensure risk infrastructure keeps pace with a fast-moving, strategy-driven environment.

What You'll Do

• Sit on the firm's Risk Committee, contributing to global risk governance and policy
• Provide oversight of the global risk function, ensuring consistency and rigour across all trading desks and geographies
• Develop and maintain systematic market risk models (VaR, factor models, stress testing, drawdown analytics)
• Build real-time risk monitoring systems integrated with live trading infrastructure
• Define and manage position and exposure limits across asset classes (equities, futures, FX, options)
• Partner with portfolio/strategy teams to understand and quantify risk at the strategy and portfolio level
• Contribute to pre-trade and post-trade risk analytics and reporting

Who We're Looking For

• 8+ years in a quantitative risk role within a systematic trading environment — HFT or fully systematic MFT
• Strong grasp of market microstructure and the risk dynamics specific to short-horizon strategies
• Proficiency in Python would be beneficial
• Experience building risk systems from first principles, not just running existing frameworks
• Degree in a quantitative discipline (Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, CS or similar); advanced degree a plus

What On Offer

• A seat at the table in one of Asia's most technically sophisticated trading operations
• Top-tier infrastructure and proprietary tooling purpose-built for systematic strategies
• Strong capital backing and the ability to act quickly on good ideas
• Competitive compensation with meaningful performance upside
• Flexible working arrangements considered for the right candidate