Risk Manager
At a glance
Manager-level Risk & Financial Compliance role at Caxton Associates. Bengaluru.
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What you'll do
- Track changes in risk across the firm and its strategies, assessing what those shifts mean
- Serve as the risk counterpart for regional portfolio managers during local trading hours
- Work through scenario tests, stress cases and portfolio trade-offs directly with portfolio managers
- Review trading teams’ performance, provide market and risk updates, and help develop committee reporting
- Improve risk tools and frameworks with global colleagues, including measures for controlling exposure
What you bring
- At least ten years managing market or portfolio risk, ideally in a macro or multi-asset fund or an investment bank
- Broad familiarity with financial instruments, including derivatives, and global macro across rates, FX or other listed asset classes
- Strong SQL capability and practical experience with trading limits, risk controls and escalation procedures
Who this fits
This manager-level role suits an experienced risk professional who can challenge portfolio managers in real time and explain risk clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences. It is an onsite position in Bengaluru, with work aligned to regional market hours.
From the employer
About Caxton Associates:
Caxton Associates, founded in 1983, is a global trading and investment firm with offices in New York, London, Singapore, Monaco and Dubai. Our primary business is to manage client and proprietary capital through global macro hedge fund strategies. As part of our continued growth, we are establishing a new office in Bangalore, India. This office will play a critical role in supporting our trading, research, and operations globally.
About the role:
We are seeking a strong candidate to join our global risk management team, with strong practical risk judgement who is deeply engaged with markets and enjoy partnering with portfolio managers in real time to challenge, inform, and improve investment decisions.
The firm's portfolio management teams engage in a diverse set of investment strategies spanning all asset classes. The risk function is an integral part of the firm's investment process and is responsible for the development of risk management frameworks to assess, manage and ultimately control the risk for each strategy and the firm in aggregate. The risk management team reports directly into the firm's COO/CRO.
Responsibilities:
- Reviewing and assessing the evolving risk profile of the firm and individual strategies
- Act as the primary risk contact for regional portfolio managers during local market hours
- Engage directly with PMs on scenario analysis, stress testing, and portfolio construction trade-offs
- Assessing the skill of the individual trading teams
- Provide ongoing risk commentary and market analysis
- Contribute to enhancement of risk infrastructure and provide new and innovative risk management measures/frameworks in coordination with global risk teams
- Contribute to risk committee reporting and broader risk framework development initiatives
Experience:
- College degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Computational Finance or Economics is preferred
- 10+ years of experience in market risk management or portfolio risk, ideally at a macro hedge fund, multi-asset fund, or investment bank
- A broad-based knowledge of financial products, including derivatives
- Strong understanding of global macro strategies across rates, FX, equities, credit, commodities
- Strong SQL skills, Python would be a plus
- Experience with MSCI Riskmetrics, Axioma Equity Factor Model, Orchestrade would be a plus
- Hands-on experience with trading limits, risk controls, and escalation processes
- A proficient knowledge of financial mathematics and market risk measurement techniques
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, in both technical and layman’s terms
- Attention to detail, a self-starter and a naturally curious mindset
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