Risk Analyst

Responsibilities

• Run and maintain the firm’s VaR and risk systems daily, ensuring accurate position capture and pricing.
• Monitor intraday trading exposures against risk limits, including position size, margin, and concentration.
• Reconcile daily margin requirements against FCM statements and perform what-if scenarios to optimize margin usage.
• Execute daily stress tests, scenario analyses, and liquidity reserve models.
• Investigate anomalies in risk metrics, P&L attribution, or data spikes.
• Prepare and distribute daily risk reports to senior management and conduct regular reviews with traders.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of relevant risk experience at a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, or futures clearing organization.
• Strong proficiency in VaR methodologies and risk system management.
• Hands-on experience with futures margining (specifically SPAN) and FCM reconciliation.
• Solid understanding of futures markets, listed options Greeks, and equity portfolio risk.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with Python or SQL is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

Preferred Qualifications

• CFA or FRM certification.
• Familiarity with P&L attribution concepts and their relationship to risk monitoring.

Benefits

• 100% remote work environment with a flexible schedule.
• Opportunity to work in a modern, low-bureaucracy international technology company.
• Collaboration with industry-leading professionals from top-tier financial institutions.
• Compensation for health insurance, sports activities, and non-professional training.

About the Company

BHFT is a proprietary algorithmic trading firm managing the full trading cycle, from software development to strategy coding. We trade a broad range of asset classes, including equities, derivatives, and futures, using both HFT and MFT approaches. Our team of over 200 professionals is highly technical and operates as a fully remote organization globally.