at IMC Trading
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**Experienced Risk Manager** drives IMC's Risk team focused on Delta One business. Collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers to identify, manage, andbuild risk methodologies for equities, ETFs, futures, and other exchange-traded instruments. Develop and enhance quantitative risk tools using Python. Requires 5+ years' experience in risk management, familiarity with Delta One strategies, strong analytics skills, Python proficiency. Offers significant autonomy, direct senior exposure, and influence over risk management frameworks. Base salary: $150,000 - $210,000.
- Compensation
- $150,000 – $210,000 USD
- City
- Chicago
- Country
- United States
Currency: $ (USD)
Full Job Description
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Partner closely with traders to identify, monitor, and manage risk across a wide range of trading strategies
- Monitor and analyze market, credit, capital, and operational risks across IMC's portfolios
- Develop and enhance risk methodologies for products including equities, ETFs, futures, and other exchange-traded instruments
- Analyze concentration risk, tail-event scenarios, and other portfolio-level exposures to improve risk visibility and decision-making
- Build and enhance quantitative risk tools, reporting, and monitoring frameworks using Python
- Partner with software engineering teams to improve risk infrastructure and automate risk workflows
- Work closely with traders to evaluate new strategies, products, and markets while ensuring appropriate risk controls are in place
- Challenge existing processes and propose new frameworks that improve how IMC understands and manages risk
Your Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in financial risk management, quantitative risk, or a related front-office risk function
- Experience supporting exchange-traded products such as equities, ETFs, futures, or other linear products
- Familiarity with Delta One trading strategies
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in Python for data analysis, risk analytics, or automation
- Working knowledge of SQL is preferred
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts to traders, engineers, and business stakeholders
- Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with significant ownership and autonomy
- FINRA SIE and Series 57, or willingness to obtain them after joining IMC
Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.
The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.
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About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
