What you’ll do as a Risk Analyst at Akuna:
We are looking for a motivated self-starter to join our growing Risk team in our Singapore office. This role will allow you to make a direct impact by taking ownership of Risk responsibilities in the Asia- Pacific region. You will work regularly with our Department Heads, Quantitative Risk Analyst, Traders, Risk Development team and other global functions. In this role, you will:
- Work on improvements to measuring and managing market, credit and operational risk and building a strong risk culture
- Maintain and improve our checks and controls and overall risk processes
- Work on market and credit risk limit methodologies, and enforce violations
- Design daily risk reports for management
- Manage activities across all lines of business across the region especially on Risk management
- Initiate and develop new Risk frameworks and ensure they are in line with local regulatory standards
- Define and propose Risk strategies, and ensure they are optimal with respect to regulatory requirements and firmwide risk appetite
Requirements for the role:
- Bachelors or Masters degree with applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, or related fields
- 3+ years of full-time work experience in risk function
- Numerical and quantitative fluency
- Ability to work independently and think through complex and detailed problems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- An interest in options, finance, and trading
- A passion for working with technical teams and learning to code in Python
Qualities that make great candidates:
- Strong academic results and achievements
- Any experience with finance, options or automated trading environments
- Basic Python programming skills
About Akuna:
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models.
Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Singapore, Shanghai, Boston and London.
At Akuna, we believe that the people are the centre of everything we do. Our brand-new Singapore office is open most recently and has a close-knit start-up feel - you really get to know the team! We are growing and looking for the best talents to join us on this journey. If you enjoy being part of smart, driven teams with real challenges to solve - this could be the place for you!
