Senior Vice President, First Line Risk Manager

Overview

In this role you will lead first-line risk oversight across Markets, ensuring robust risk governance and proactive risk intake for strategic clients and initiatives. You’ll collaborate with Front Office, Compliance and Second Line Risk to maintain a strong control environment and global standards. You will drive risk frameworks, onboarding recommendations, and continuous oversight to support growth and resilience. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape risk culture and partner across regions to enable sustainable business momentum.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive compensation
• wellbeing programs
• flexible global resources
• generous paid leaves
• paid volunteer time
• strong culture of excellence

Responsibilities

• Lead first-line risk oversight across Execution Services and related activities (PSL/PSIL FIEQ Execution, IB & LB Fixed Income Execution, Pershing, 24-Hour Trading, strategic client onboarding)
• Establish and govern risk monitoring frameworks, including limits, thresholds, and escalation triggers
• Drive a consistent control environment across EMEA in partnership with Trading Desks, Credit Services, Compliance, and Second Line Risk
• Provide risk assessments and onboarding recommendations to enable strategic client onboarding, new products, and business initiatives
• Support global follow-the-sun risk coverage with continuous oversight for Pershing, Execution Services, and Clearing activities, while identifying and mitigating emerging risks

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics or related quantitative discipline
• Experience in Markets, Financial Resource Management, Treasury, Risk Analytics, Liquidity Risk, Counterparty Risk or Financial Risk Management
• Strong stakeholder management with Front Office, Credit, Compliance, Operations, and Second Line Risk teams
• Commercial judgment and risk assessment capability for onboarding, growth initiatives, and risk appetite decisions
• Demonstrated leadership in control environments and experience operating across multiple regions and legal entities

• Stakeholder management
• Commercial judgment
• Leadership and collaboration
• Risk analytics
• Liquidity risk
• Counterparty risk

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