Senior Futures Risk Analyst

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2 Locations
In-Office
125K-165K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Monitor client and proprietary futures risk exposures, margin and collateral adequacy, credit controls, position limits, liquidity, stress tests, and VaR. Investigate data anomalies, escalate breaches, support trading restrictions and liquidations, prepare risk reporting, and collaborate with operations, compliance, finance, technology, and business teams. The role also supports control testing, procedure development, system enhancements, and regulatory or audit requests.
Summary Generated by Built In

Futu US Inc. stands at the forefront of financial services, housing two SEC registered broker-dealers alongside a cryptocurrency brokerage — all operating under the reputable wing of Futu Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: FUTU).

Our core mission revolves around innovating the investing landscape through a digitized brokerage and wealth management platform that's designed to elevate the investment experience.

Here's a closer look at our key entities:

  • Futu Clearing Inc.: An SEC registered FINRA member dedicated to delivering top-tier clearing and execution services globally.
  • Moomoo Financial Inc.: As an SEC registered FINRA member, we provide retail investors access to both U.S. and Asian securities markets, ensuring your investment journey is backed by expertise.
  • Moomoo Technology Inc.: Offering a data-rich trading platform, we provide unparalleled insights and tools to enhance your trading strategies. Note that this entity is not a licensed broker-dealer.

For deeper insights into our entities and affiliates, explore futuclearing.com or moomoo/com/us  to discover the future of investing with confidence and innovation.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced, detail-oriented Senior Futures Risk Analyst to join our Futures Commission Merchant (“FCM”) risk management team in Jersey City/Dallas. This individual-contributor role is responsible for monitoring client and proprietary risk exposures, administering trading and credit controls, evaluating margin and collateral adequacy, and escalating emerging market- and credit-risk issues in a timely manner.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience in futures clearing or FCM risk operations, including intraday margin monitoring, position-limit oversight, credit controls, and risk escalation procedures. This role will work closely with Clearing Operations, Compliance, Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders to support a disciplined and scalable futures risk-control environment.

Primary Responsibilities
  • Monitor real-time and end-of-day market, credit, margin, and liquidity exposures across client accounts and proprietary positions.
  • Execute established risk-monitoring procedures; identify, investigate, document, and escalate risk-limit breaches and unusual account activity promptly.
  • Administer CME Globex Credit Controls (“GC2”), including setting and maintaining approved pre-trade exposure and maximum-order-quantity limits for futures and options.
  • Evaluate client margin adequacy, including initial and maintenance margin requirements, variation margin, intraday deficits, and collateral coverage.
  • Monitor stress-testing and Value-at-Risk (“VaR”) results; identify portfolio vulnerabilities and escalate material adverse-risk scenarios.
  • Monitor exchange-imposed and firm-specific position limits, accountability levels, and reportable-position thresholds; investigate and escalate potential breaches.
  • Assess the quality, eligibility, concentration, liquidity, valuation, and applicable haircuts of margin collateral.
  • Investigate risk alerts that may arise from stale prices, erroneous ticks, feed disruptions, position-data issues, or other market-data-integrity concerns; distinguish genuine risk events from data-driven false signals.
  • Execute risk escalation procedures, including trading restrictions, credit-limit changes, and support for partial or full account liquidations in accordance with delegated authority and firm policy.
  • Monitor upcoming market-risk events—including economic releases, geopolitical developments, contract expirations, delivery periods, and market holidays—and recommend appropriate adjustments to risk parameters or monitoring thresholds.
  • Partner with Clearing Operations, Compliance, Finance, Technology, and the business to resolve risk issues and improve control effectiveness.
  • Prepare daily risk reports, exception logs, incident summaries, and management reporting.
  • Participate in risk-control testing, procedure development, system enhancements, and regulatory or internal-audit requests.

Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
  • 3–7 years of relevant experience in futures risk management, clearing operations, margin operations, or credit risk at an FCM, clearing firm, futures broker, or exchange.
  • Strong understanding of futures contract specifications, settlement and delivery mechanics, and product-specific risk characteristics across equity index, fixed-income, commodity, FX, and options-on-futures products.
  • Practical knowledge of initial margin, maintenance margin, variation margin, intraday margin calls, and end-of-day margin processes.
  • Experience monitoring client portfolios for market, credit, margin, concentration, and liquidity risk.
  • Familiarity with futures margin methodologies, including SPAN, CME CORE, or comparable risk-based margin frameworks.
  • Working knowledge of exchange and firm position limits, accountability levels, reportable-position requirements, and account aggregation concepts.
  • Experience interpreting stress-testing and VaR results and translating them into appropriate risk decisions or escalations.
  • Familiarity with CME Globex Credit Controls (“GC2”) or comparable pre-trade credit-control and order-risk-control tools.
  • Ability to investigate market-data and position-data anomalies, including stale prices, erroneous trades or ticks, and data-feed disruptions.
  • Knowledge of escalation procedures for margin deficiencies, risk-limit breaches, trading restrictions, and forced liquidation.
  • Familiarity with CFTC, NFA, and CME Group rules applicable to FCM risk operations.
  • Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and ability to make sound time-sensitive decisions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Direct experience at a self-clearing FCM or CME Clearing Member.
  • Experience administering GC2 limits and monitoring blocked, cancelled, or restricted orders.
  • Experience evaluating non-cash collateral, including collateral haircuts, concentration limits, and eligibility requirements.
  • Series 3 registration or ability to obtain it within a defined period after hire.
  • FRM, PRM, CFA, or similar risk-management certification.
  • Experience with risk-reporting tools, SQL, Python, Excel/VBA, or data-analysis platforms.
What Success Looks Like
  • Risk exposures, margin deficits, and position-limit exceptions are identified, escalated, and resolved within established service-level and governance requirements.
  • GC2 and other trading-risk controls are accurate, properly approved, and supported by complete documentation.
  • Risk reports and incident summaries are reliable, concise, and actionable for senior management.
  • Market-data anomalies are investigated efficiently without allowing genuine client or firm exposures to remain unmanaged.
  • The role contributes practical improvements to risk-monitoring workflows, control documentation, reporting, and cross-functional issue management.

Benefits

What We Offer:

  • Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
  • Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and retirement plans.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • A dynamic and collaborative work environment.

Base pay for a successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected salary range for this role is $125,000-$165,000. This role is also eligible to participate in our discretionary bonus plan.

Disclaimer

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Employment with Futu Holdings Limited, including all subsidiaries, is on an at-will basis. This means that either the employee or the Company may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without notice and with or without cause, subject to applicable law. Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as creating an express or implied contract of employment or guarantee of employment for any specific duration.

Futu Holdings Limited, including all subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Risk Management, or a related discipline
  • 3-7 years of relevant experience in futures risk management, clearing operations, margin operations, or credit risk at an FCM, clearing firm, futures broker, or exchange
  • Strong understanding of futures contract specifications, settlement and delivery mechanics, and product-specific risk characteristics across equity index, fixed-income, commodity, FX, and options-on-futures products
  • Practical knowledge of initial margin, maintenance margin, variation margin, intraday margin calls, and end-of-day margin processes
  • Experience monitoring client portfolios for market, credit, margin, concentration, and liquidity risk
  • Familiarity with futures margin methodologies, including SPAN, CME CORE, or comparable risk-based margin frameworks
  • Working knowledge of exchange and firm position limits, accountability levels, reportable-position requirements, and account aggregation concepts
  • Experience interpreting stress-testing and VaR results and translating them into appropriate risk decisions or escalations
  • Familiarity with CME Globex Credit Controls or comparable pre-trade credit-control and order-risk-control tools
  • Ability to investigate market-data and position-data anomalies, including stale prices, erroneous trades or ticks, and data-feed disruptions
  • Knowledge of escalation procedures for margin deficiencies, risk-limit breaches, trading restrictions, and forced liquidation
  • Familiarity with CFTC, NFA, and CME Group rules applicable to FCM risk operations
  • Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and ability to make sound time-sensitive decisions
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Direct experience at a self-clearing FCM or CME Clearing Member
  • Experience administering GC2 limits and monitoring blocked, cancelled, or restricted orders
  • Experience evaluating non-cash collateral, including collateral haircuts, concentration limits, and eligibility requirements
  • Series 3 registration or ability to obtain it within a defined period after hire
  • FRM, PRM, CFA, or similar risk-management certification
  • Experience with risk-reporting tools, SQL, Python, Excel/VBA, or data-analysis platforms

Futu Holdings Limited Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Futu Holdings Limited and has not been reviewed or approved by Futu Holdings Limited.

  • Healthcare Strength Health insurance in the U.S. arm is described as strong, with some accounts citing employer-paid premiums for employees. Core medical coverage is listed across U.S. roles.
  • Retirement Support Retirement programs are offered by region, including a U.S. 401(k) with employer contribution and Hong Kong MPF participation. PRC and Singapore roles align with statutory social insurance and CPF-related schemes.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity compensation exists via a group share incentive plan, with some roles in U.S. subsidiaries receiving RSUs at hire. Where granted, equity can meaningfully augment total compensation.

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The Company
HQ: Shenzhen
855 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Futu Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: FUTU) is a leading fintech company committed to transforming the investing experience for investors worldwide. With a global presence across Hong Kong, Singapore, the U.S., Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, and New Zealand, we serve over 26 million users through our one-stop digital platforms, Futubull and moomoo, enabling everyone to become a better investor on the go. At Futu, our mission remains unchanged since day 1: make investing easier and not alone. We empower investors of all levels to confidently navigate the market with all the essential tools and data to achieve their financial goals. Together, we strive to build a world where smarter investing is within reach for all.

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