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Market Risk Specialist

ACT Group
🇺🇸New YorkSeniorFull-time$120k–$160kPosted July 28, 2026

About the Role

At ACT, your work has real impact on the company, your colleagues, and the world. In this market risk role, you will build and maintain market risk reporting infrastructure and tools, create market risk models, and advise traders on pending deals.

  • Build, maintain and improve market risk reporting infrastructure and tools, including automation and streamlining of existing processes
  • Create market risk models and advise traders on pending deals
  • Develop market risk measurement methods and understand process flows
  • Daily monitor market risk, stress and Value at Risk (VaR) exposures against limits and risk appetite
  • Manage market risk assessments for new product lines and create, update, present and enforce market risk policies and procedures
  • Process and analyze large data sets using SQL, perform stress testing, and develop risk mitigation strategies

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain and improve market risk reporting infrastructure and tools, including the automation and streamlining of existing processes
  • Create market risk models and advise traders on pending deals
  • Develop market risk measurement methods and understand process flows
  • Daily monitor of market risk, stress and Value at Risk (VaR) exposures against limits and risk appetite, while remaining constantly aware of current market dynamics
  • Manage market risk assessments for new product lines, working with traders to understand their markets
  • Create, update, present and enforce market risk policies and procedures
  • Process and analyze large data sets using SQL while maintaining and updating codebases to ensure performance and scalability
  • Perform stress testing and develop risk mitigation strategies

Requirements

  • Bachelor or Master of Finance, Economic, Statistics or Econometrics
  • 5-7 years of experience in market risk within commodity trading or a leading financial institution
  • Strong market analysis and financial assessment capabilities
  • Experience with Python and/or SQL is required
  • Intellectually curious and able to demonstrate structures problem solving and analytical skills
  • Confident communication (verbal and written) with stakeholder management

What You'll Get

  • $120k–$160k base salary
  • Competitive Remuneration Scheme
  • Business and Communication Related Trainings
  • Exciting Quarterly Targets Incentives
  • Fully covered medical, dental and vision insurance
  • 401k match
  • Challenging and Exciting Work Environment with a Flat Hierarchy