A leading buy side trading firm is expanding its commodities business and is hiring a Commodities Risk Manager to play a foundational role in the build out of its risk function. This is a high impact position for someone who wants to operate close to the trading desks, influence strategy onboarding, and help design risk frameworks in a fast moving, systematic trading environment
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement market and liquidity risk frameworks for commodities trading strategies
- Partner closely with portfolio managers, researchers, and trading teams to assess risk across new and existing strategies
- Analyze historical data to calibrate risk thresholds, stress scenarios, and tail risk measures
- Build and refine risk models that account for commodities specific features
- Monitor market, operational, and liquidity risk in real time and support incident investigation where required
- Contribute to strategy onboarding and feasibility assessments
- Work cross functionally with operations, finance, and engineering on tactical risk initiatives
Requirements
- 7+ years’ experience in a buy side risk role covering commodities markets
- Strong understanding of commodities, particularly energy and futures based strategies
- Experience working in quant or systematic trading environments
- Comfortable engaging with technical teams and interpreting code (Python or similar)
- Strong grasp of market microstructure, liquidity risk, and derivatives risk
- Background from a trading firm, hedge fund, or prop trading environment
- Ability to operate in a highly collaborative, low bureaucracy setting
Why This Role
- First dedicated commodities risk hire
- Opportunity to help shape the risk framework from an early stage
- Significant visibility and influence across trading and research teams