Role Purpose
To manage and strengthen trading risk controls for Indian equity markets, covering cash equities, derivatives, electronic trading, trading strategies, and portfolio risk.

Key Responsibilities / KRAs
• Monitor market, trading, liquidity, concentration, counterparty, and model risks across equity portfolios.
• Define and monitor trading limits, exposure limits, stop-loss limits, margin utilisation, and drawdown thresholds.
• Oversee pre-trade and post-trade risk controls for electronic and algorithmic trading.
• Conduct VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis for Indian equity portfolios.
• Review and back-test trading strategies, models, and risk parameters.
• Develop risk dashboards and tools for real-time monitoring and management reporting.
• Partner with Trading, Technology, Quantitative Research, Operations, Compliance, and Model Validation teams.
• Ensure alignment with SEBI, NSE, BSE, and internal risk governance requirements.
• Identify risk exceptions, investigate breaches, and recommend timely corrective actions.




• Support the development of risk frameworks for new products, strategies, and trading platforms.
• Improve risk reporting, data quality, automation, and visualisation using Python, SQL, Excel, Tableau, or similar tools.
• Present key risk trends and issues to senior management and risk committees.

Candidate Profile
• 8–12 years of experience in market risk, trading risk, quantitative risk, or electronic trading risk.
• Strong understanding of Indian equity markets, including cash, futures, options, and algorithmic trading.
• Experience in market risk models, VaR, stress testing, back-testing, and trading controls.
• Knowledge of counterparty credit risk, margining, exposure, and liquidity risk.
• Solid understanding of risk governance, regulatory frameworks, and control environments.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Excel, Tableau, KDB, Bloomberg, or similar tools.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakehold

📌 Market Risk Specialist (Mumbai)
🏢 Edelweiss Financial Services
📍 Mumbai