Senior Risk / Director (Hong Kong / Shen Zhen)

We're hiring a Senior Risk to lead risk strategy across our global trading business. The role covers our proprietary trading desks and multi-strategy fund, with responsibility for building and overseeing risk frameworks across offices worldwide in fast-moving trading environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the firm's global risk appetite framework, providing strategic guidance to the Board and senior management on risk-taking across all regions and business lines.
• Approve trading limits, new investment strategies, and the launch of new products, instruments, and market initiatives, ensuring appropriate risk controls are in place before implementation.
• Lead, develop, and expand the global risk function, mentoring team members across multiple offices and building a scalable risk management capability to support business growth.
• Partner with senior leadership on strategic business initiatives, expansion plans, and capital allocation decisions across global markets.
• Serve as the primary risk representative and key point of contact for the Hong Kong SFC and other regulatory authorities globally.
• Establish and continuously enhance risk methodologies, including VaR, Expected Shortfall, stress testing, scenario analysis, and portfolio risk measurement frameworks.
• Drive the adoption of technology and AI-enabled solutions to modernize risk monitoring, reporting, and decision-making.
• Exercise authority to suspend, restrict, or escalate trading activities when risk limits, policies, or governance standards are breached.
• Represent the risk function at Board and executive committee level, providing independent challenge on strategic decisions.
• Ensure a robust risk governance framework across all global operations, balancing oversight with commercial objectives.

Requirements

• 5+ years in markets/trading risk, including a leadership or senior deputy role, candidates ready to step up into their first Head of Risk seat are encouraged to apply.
• Direct, hands-on ownership of trading-book market risk e.g. setting and enforcing VaR, Expected Shortfall, and limit frameworks on live trading positions
• Strong understanding of trading activities and market dynamics, with a trading or front-office background strongly preferred over a purely risk, control, or back-office path.
• Experience engaging risk and regulators across multiple countries and markets.
• Solid grasp of VaR, stress testing, and risk modeling; comfortable with AI.
• Professional qualifications such as CFA, FRM, or PRM highly desirable.
• Bachelor's degree or above in finance, economics, or related field.
• Confident communicator; fluent in English and Cantonese and/or Mandarin.
• Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, global environment across time zones and multicultural teams.

This role sits in a hedge fund / proprietary trading environment. Experience must come from a hedge fund, prop trading firm, or trading desk.

Purely commercial or retail banking, insurance, treasury/ALM, or governance-, compliance-, or control-led risk backgrounds are not a fit for this seat.