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All Options is looking for a Market Risk Manager to join our team in Amsterdam. You will be at the center of how we manage risk as a market maker, with real responsibility from day one. You’ll set trading limits, refine policies, and ensure our risk appetite and controls stay aligned.
Day-to-day, you’ll monitor risk live on our trading floor and work closely with trading teams: stress-testing assumptions, evaluating risk-reward tradeoffs, optimizing capital allocation, and supporting deployment of new quantitative and algorithmic strategies.
You’ll also drive strategic initiatives: strengthening our limits framework, improving risk processes, and ensuring regulatory and clearing requirements are met. This is a high-impact role where your decisions directly shape both our risk profile and our ability to capture trading opportunities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee daily market risk management of our equity derivatives business, engaging directly with traders, clearing banks, trading venues
- Monitor and investigate risk concentrations, clearing bank requirements, operational incidents, unusual trades and market moves, linking insights to current exposures
- Operate and improve our market and operational risk frameworks, with a strong focus on automated trading strategies and effective incident follow-up
- Design, improve, and operate our market risk frameworks and automated monitoring tools in Python
- Assess and sign off on new trading strategies and algorithms
- Further develop the risk-control framework, including policies, with a strong focus on trading and technology
- Provide input to optimize capital and liquidity allocation and usage of trading strategies
Key Requirements:
- 3-5 years of professional experience in an equity derivatives trading firm
- Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as STEM, Statistics, Economics, or Finance
- Hands-on understanding of equity and derivatives trading
- Clear understanding of risk factors that affect a market maker company trading a large equity derivatives portfolio
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills
- Able to both design and implement aspects of risk management frameworks
- Able to utilize enterprise AI tooling to increase efficiency and control
- Independent thinker, with convincing communication skills
- Results-oriented with attention to detail and focus on quality of work
- Mindset geared towards continuous improvement and innovation
- Collaborative team player, able to contribute in fast-paced trading environment
Why Join All Options?
At All Options, we offer a dynamic role with room for professional development and collaboration. Enjoy a competitive salary, bonus opportunities, profit sharing, 29 vacation days, and perks like a well-being allowance and in-house meals. Celebrate success with monthly drinks and festivities, and take advantage of our bicycle plan, and NS Business Card.
Apply Now!
If this sounds like your next challenge, submit your CV and cover letter. Our interview process ensures we find the right fit and if it’s a match, we can’t wait to welcome you to the team!
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of professional experience in an equity derivatives trading firm
- Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as STEM, Statistics, Economics, or Finance
- Hands-on understanding of equity and derivatives trading
- Understanding of risk factors affecting a market maker trading a large equity derivatives portfolio
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills
- Ability to design and implement aspects of risk management frameworks
- Ability to utilize enterprise AI tooling to increase efficiency and control
- Independent thinking and convincing communication skills
- Results-oriented approach with attention to detail and focus on quality
- Mindset geared toward continuous improvement and innovation
- Collaborative teamwork in a fast-paced trading environment
What We Do
Established in 1998, we're a fully regulated proprietary trading firm that thrives as a liquidity provider (market maker) on Europe's most prominent option exchanges. With our base in Amsterdam and our office in Austin, TX, we're on a mission to leverage our expertise and scale our success by implementing proven trading strategies in the world's largest financial market, the USA. This offers you an exciting opportunity to be part of our expansion journey. Joining All Options means becoming a highly skilled (quantitative) options trader, as we're committed to assembling a team of top-tier talent armed with the most innovative ideas. Our true strength lies not just in what we do, but in how we collaborate and grow together, making every moment at All Options stimulating and profoundly rewarding. We firmly believe that our team members should consistently feel both challenged and supported. That's why we encourage employees not only to take ownership of their work but also to step boldly out of their comfort zones. As we're dedicated to your success, we provide all the tools, resources, and mentorship needed to help you thrive.
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