Eightcap

Trading Risk Analyst

Eightcap

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

GrafanaPythonSQL

About the role

  • - Monitor day-to-day risk across EU and US sessions, including exposure, client activity, trade alerts, pricing, spreads, and liquidity.
  • - Perform risk analysis relating to market exposure, client flow, trading behaviour and system functionality.
  • - Analyse trade flow, execution quality, spreads, and latency.
  • - Maintain firm-wide exposure limits through hedging, reconciliation, and other risk-mitigation strategies.
  • - Support the development refinement of hedging strategies to optimise risk control and revenue outcomes.
  • - Administer and support trading platforms and liquidity bridges (MetaTrader, DX, cTrader, TradeLocker).
  • - Partner with global teams to implement company-wide trading risk initiatives and deliver longer-term risk mitigation projects.

Requirements

  • - 2+ years of experience in trading risk, preferably with derivatives and leveraged products.
  • - Living in the UK and able to attend the London office
  • - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, economics, quantitative discipline, or related field.
  • - Strong knowledge of financial instruments: CFDs, FX, crypto, indices, and commodities.
  • - Understanding of trade flow risk, exposure management and risk controls.
  • - Comfortable working with risk data, APIs, and real-time monitoring tools (Grafana, Tapaas, etc.).
  • - Hands-on familiarity with trading platforms (MetaTrader, DXtrade, cTrader).
  • - Experience with OneZero bridge technology.
  • - Database / SQL experience or Python skills.
Benefits
  • - 26 days' holiday
  • - Aviva workplace pension
  • - Vitality private health insurance
  • - Parental leave
  • - Ongoing investment in your career development
  • - Staff referral bonus program
  • - Regular social activities

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Hard skills
risk analysishedging strategiestrade flow analysisexposure managementdatabaseSQLPythontrading riskfinancial instrumentsreal-time monitoring
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree