As a Risk Manager, you will play a central role in safeguarding and shaping our risk framework as a derivatives market maker. From day one, you’ll be given meaningful responsibility in helping to decide on trading limits, refining our policies, and ensuring alignment between our risk appetite and our control framework.
Your daily work combines hands-on risk monitoring with longer-term projects to continuously improve how we manage market, credit, and operational risks. You will work closely with trading teams on the trading floor, acting as a sparring partner to evaluate risk-reward trade-offs, optimize capital allocation, and support the deployment of new quantitative and algorithmic trading strategies. Initially focused on market risk, the role will gradually encompass operational risk management, providing broader exposure to the firm’s risk framework.
Beyond day-to-day oversight, you will contribute to strategic initiatives, such as enhancing our limits framework, streamlining risk processes, and ensuring regulatory capital and clearing requirements are met. To succeed, you’ll need to stay ahead of market developments, communicate insights effectively, and bring an innovative mindset to making our risk management practices more robust, efficient, and effective.
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 reporting of our equity derivatives business, engaging directly with traders, clearing banks, trading venues and regulators;
- 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, incl. policies, with a strong focus on trading and technology;
- Advise on capital requirements and provide input to optimize capital and liquidity allocation and usage of trading strategies.
Key Requirements:
- A Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as STEM, Statistics, Econometrics, or Finance;
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills;
- Ability to write clean and efficient code in Python;
- Solid understanding of securities and derivatives trading;
- Able to both design and implement aspects of risk management frameworks;
- Independent thinker, with convincing communication skills in English;
- Result-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;
- Prior experience in a trading firm is a plus.
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, NS Business Card, and the option to work from abroad.
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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!
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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 recently opened office in Austin, Texas, 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.
