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EU Market Risk Manager

All Options
🇳🇱AmsterdamMediorFull-timePosted September 17, 2026

About the Role

All Options is looking for a Market Risk Manager to join our team in Amsterdam. You will be at the center of how we manage risk as a market maker, with real responsibility from day one, setting trading limits, refining policies, and ensuring our risk appetite and controls stay aligned.

Day-to-day, you'll monitor risk live on our trading floor and work closely with trading teams: stress-testing assumptions, evaluating risk-reward tradeoffs, optimizing capital allocation, and supporting deployment of new quantitative and algorithmic strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversee daily market risk management of our equity derivatives business, engaging directly with traders, clearing banks, and trading venues
  • Monitor and investigate risk concentrations, clearing bank requirements, operational incidents, unusual trades and market moves, linking insights to current exposures
  • Operate and improve our market and operational risk frameworks, with a strong focus on automated trading strategies and effective incident follow-up
  • Design, improve, and operate market risk frameworks and automated monitoring tools in Python
  • Assess and sign off on new trading strategies and algorithms
  • Further develop the risk-control framework, including policies, with a strong focus on trading and technology
  • Provide input to optimize capital and liquidity allocation and usage of trading strategies

You'll also drive strategic initiatives: strengthening our limits framework, improving risk processes, and ensuring regulatory and clearing requirements are met. This is a high-impact role where your decisions directly shape both our risk profile and our ability to capture trading opportunities.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of professional experience in an equity derivatives trading firm
  • Master's degree in a quantitative field such as STEM, Statistics, Economics, or Finance
  • Hands-on understanding of equity and derivatives trading
  • Clear understanding of risk factors that affect a market maker company trading a large equity derivatives portfolio
  • Excellent numerical and analytical skills
  • Able to both design and implement aspects of risk management frameworks
  • Able to utilize enterprise AI tooling to increase efficiency and control
  • Independent thinker, with convincing communication skills
  • Results-oriented with attention to detail and focus on quality of work
  • Mindset geared towards continuous improvement and innovation
  • Collaborative team player, able to contribute in fast-paced trading environment

What You'll Get

  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus opportunities
  • Profit sharing
  • 29 vacation days
  • Well-being allowance
  • In-house meals
  • Monthly drinks and festivities
  • Bicycle plan
  • NS Business Card