Peak6group

Peak6group

Lead Risk Analyst

Chicago, IL · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$109k-$136kDetected 8 days ago
PythonSQLExcelLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • This is a senior, hands-on role for someone with deep expertise across asset classes - complex options, portfolio margin, futures, crypto, and FX - and an understanding of how those assets interact.
  • The Risk team has evolved from manual, reactive processing toward proactive, automated risk management on

Responsibilities

  • Multi-Asset Risk Management: Monitor and manage margin and market risk across equities, complex options, futures, crypto, FX, and portfolio margin accounts, including the firm's largest and most complex exposures.
  • Margin Methodology Expertise: Serve as the team's authority on SPAN/SPAN2 and TIMS/portfolio margin - able to deconstruct, validate, and explain risk arrays and margin calculations to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Product Development Support: Test product rollouts and contribute to feature scoping in Ascend for complex options, portfolio margin, futures, and autoliquidation
  • Proactive Risk Culture: Identify emerging issues early and drive root-cause resolution with Product and Technology, rather than remediating after the fact
  • remain ready to lead the response during market stress events.
  • Knowledge Leadership: Mentor Risk Analysts, document institutional knowledge, and build the department's bench in futures, FX, and portfolio margin.
  • Experience operating, testing, or developing manual and automated liquidation processes

Requirements

  • Own the risk perspective on automated liquidation - test and refine liquidation logic, and personally manage liquidations on complex accounts when required.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience at a broker-dealer or FCM supporting margin, futures, options, crypto, and/or FX trading, including hands-on margin or market risk management experience
  • Series 7, Series 3, Series 34 required
  • ​ Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job.
  • Autoliquidation: Own the risk perspective on automated liquidation - test and refine liquidation logic, and personally manage liquidations on complex accounts when required.

Nice to have

  • Series 63 and/or 24 a plus
  • Experience with SPAN2 implementation or migration
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Excel/VBA for risk automation and analysis
  • Experience supporting sophisticated active traders and correspondent or multi-firm environments
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Analytical Depth: Able to work from first principles on margin methodology - not just run reports, but explain why a requirement is what it is.
  • Judgment Under Pressure: Comfortable making and owning risk decisions on large accounts during fast-moving market events.
  • Communication: Able to explain complex margin and risk concepts clearly to Product, Technology, executives, and correspondent firms.

Skills

  • Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and office location.

Compensation

  • $108,800-$136,000
  • The annual base salary range for this position is noted above. Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and office location.

Benefits

  • We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP), competitive PTO, 401k match, parental leave, and HSA contribution match.
  • Process Automation & Improvement: Continuously improve and automate risk processes, reducing manual effort and error while maintaining operational coverage.
  • Education and Experience:

Company info

  • Apex Fintech Solutions (Apex) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by building tech-forward solutions that help simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech software enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, Webull, and eToro, amongst many others
  • collectively, Apex powers access to the stock market for over 22+ million end customers.
  • At Apex, we are changing how the securities industry operates by reinventing the status quo, which was manual, slow, and accessible only by the ultra-wealthy. We're digitizing and democratizing systems so that everyone has an opportunity to invest.
  • When you're at Apex, you drive this change. You're part of a global team with a clear vision: to be the trusted technology that powers the digital economy. Our offices in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Belfast, and Manila are home to over 1,000 employees.
  • Apex Fintech Solutions (Apex) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by building tech-forward solutions that help simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all.
  • Our robust suite of fintech software enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, Webull, and eToro, amongst many others; collectively, Apex powers access to the stock market for over 22+ million end customers.
  • At Apex, we are changing how the securities industry operates by reinventing the status quo, which was manual, slow, and accessible only by the ultra-wealthy.
  • We're digitizing and democratizing systems so that everyone has an opportunity to invest.
  • When you're at Apex, you drive this change.
  • You're part of a global team with a clear vision: to be the trusted technology that powers the digital economy.
  • Our offices in Austin, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland, Belfast, and Manila are home to over 1,000 employees.
  • Together, we're shaping the future of financial innovation.
  • Embrace change.
  • Win together.

Equal opportunity

  • If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please submit your request via the Candidate Accommodation Requests Form.
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