Risk Specialist

About Clear Street: 

Clear Street is building modern infrastructure for capital markets. Outdated technology makes markets difficult and expensive to access. We're fixing that.

We started with prime brokerage, in an industry that has struggled to see any real innovation in decades. Our cloud-native, prime brokerage platform has redefined what it means to work with a prime broker - improving access, speed, and service to our clients.

We want to continue that change across all capital markets. Today, we offer institutions, professional traders, and brokers everything they need to trade U.S. equities and options. In the future, our platform will give all types of investors access to every major product in every major market.

The Team:

Your team will own risk across Clear Street's business lines, playing a crucial role in the success of our growing business. As a Risk Specialist, you will contribute to successfully creating, evolving, and executing risk frameworks and best practices. This is an impactful position that provides the opportunity to expand both your quantitative and client facing skill-sets.

You will:

• Monitor intraday and end of day risk and margin requirements across clients.
• Monitor market risk for US markets in OMS and risk systems and escalate to senior management as appropriate.
• Build margin/risk and stress test methodology
• Generate and automate ad-hoc reports to highlight key risk factors across client portfolios
• Communicate risk observations with senior risk management and clients
• Assist the team in projects related to risk/margin platform builds

Requirements:

• 5-7 years’ experience in prime brokerage risk, trading risk role covering Fixed Income at a bank or buy/sell side or hedge fund.
• Bachelor’s in Finance, Econ, Math, Financial Engineering, Master’s degree preferred.
• Python coding skill preferred
• Takes initiative and a strong team player.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong project management skills / ability to work on projects and partner closely with our engineering team.
• Strong analytical and quantitative aptitude.
• Experience with risk policy design and implementation.

We offer:

• The opportunity to join a small and growing team of good people, where you can make a difference.
• A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.
• Room to innovate, solve complex business problems and build new products.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.