DB Investing

Risk Manager – Forex, CFD Brokerage

DB Investing

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Jordan

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PythonSQL

About the role

  • Monitor real-time and end-of-day net exposure, concentration risk, and volatility risk across instruments (FX, metals, indices, crypto, etc.).
  • Define and maintain risk limits: exposure caps, concentration thresholds, margin buffers, and escalation rules.
  • Partner with Dealing to manage hedging logic (where relevant), execution quality, and abnormal market conditions.
  • Detect and investigate abusive or high-risk behaviors: latency arbitrage, bonus abuse, toxic flow, hedging abuse, spoofing-like patterns, scalping anomalies, etc.
  • Implement and optimize risk flags, segmentation rules, and client profiling (new vs mature, retail vs partners, risk scoring).
  • Recommend risk actions: leverage restrictions, instrument restrictions, margin adjustments, trading conditions review, or account measures aligned with internal policies.
  • Build/upgrade risk policies and SOPs across: leverage framework, margin calls/stop-out logic, negative balance protection (as applicable), instrument risk parameters, weekend/overnight risk, news risk.
  • Run risk committee cadence: dashboards, incident reports, action plans, KPI tracking.
  • Own dashboards and reporting (MT4/MT5, CRM, BI tools): exposures, PnL drivers, client cohorts, exceptions, incidents.

Requirements

  • 3+ years in a Risk role within Forex/CFD brokerage, prop trading, liquidity provider, or similar trading environment.
  • Strong knowledge of: Margin/leverage mechanics, exposure management, stop-out logic.
  • Market microstructure basics, volatility regimes, news risk.
  • Client behavior patterns and trading abuse typologies.
  • Experience with MT4/MT5 (manager/admin reports) and practical risk monitoring.
  • High analytical capability (Excel advanced; BI tools a plus) and ability to translate data into decisions.
  • Clear communication and ability to operate with senior stakeholders under time pressure.
  • Experience implementing risk rules/alerts via BI, SQL, Python, or internal tooling (Nice-to-Have).
  • Familiarity with liquidity/prime brokerage setups (A-Book/B-Book hybrid models).
  • Previous work in regulated environments (CySEC, MFSA, SCA, etc.).
  • Experience designing bonus/promotion risk controls and eligibility frameworks.
Benefits
  • High-ownership role with direct impact on trading performance and risk resilience.
  • Multi-location flexibility (Lebanon/Jordan/Remote) with a global team.
  • Competitive compensation aligned to experience + performance upside.
  • Strong growth runway and autonomy to build best-in-class risk systems.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
risk managementmargin mechanicsexposure managementstop-out logicdata analysisSQLPythonrisk rules implementationBI toolstrading abuse detection
Soft Skills
analytical capabilityclear communicationstakeholder managementdecision makingtime management