Risk Manager
Own the limits, and be the person who can stop the firm trading without asking permission.
Dubai (on-site) · Open
Mansa Strategies
Careers/05 of 07/2 positions
Real-time and portfolio-level risk monitoring, stress testing, limits, VaR- and CVaR-style models, and the discipline that lets a firm survive the adverse event it did not forecast.
In a systematic launch this is one of the earliest critical hires that is not a founder. The failure that ends a proprietary firm is rarely the one it expected. It is the one it had no limit for.
Own the limits, and be the person who can stop the firm trading without asking permission.
Build the measures the limits rest on, and be honest about what each one cannot see.