Business Risk Manager

Minor Hotels Europe and Americas

Business Risk Manager supporting FX trading applications, managing user support, and coordinating with global IT teams. Ensuring system stability, monitoring, and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeMontreal • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 $80,000 - $90,909 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PerlSQLUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop good relations with the FX trading business: FO, MO, Risk, BO; follow relationship with third parties; manage assist members of team
Support high quality support coverage: providing every day user support and prompt resolution of and regular communication about major incidents when required
Coordinate with other teams worldwide, especially the FX Risk IT support teams in London and New York with daily handover calls to ensure a seamless support on production incidents and issues
Take ownership of production issues: propose solutions and track follow up to avoid reoccurrence
Ensure proactive monitoring of systems to ensure problems are detected promptly and usually by IT before users
Enforce change management procedures to ensure production stability while facilitating rapid system advances
Work with project development teams both as needed for level 3 production support
Participate in DRP, BCP exercises, regulatory compliance exercises, and follow up related tasks
Provide and contribute to periodical local and global reporting: ITSC and OpCo monthly reports, etc
Proactive monitoring of system health metrics to identify issues before they impact the trading business
Provide system and process documentation and training to users
Ensure IT team is cross trained with sufficient expertise to avoid keyperson risks

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of 3 years hands on experience on support or projects on FX trading applications
Ability to articulate technical concepts succinctly to a nontechnical audience
Proficiency FX products: Spot, Forwards, Swaps, NDFs, FX options
Proficiency with PnL and Risk Management concepts including VaR and sensitivities
Proficiency with VaR, Stressed VaR and similar Risk Management concepts
Proficiency with PL and sensitivity calculation on FX Options Products
Support of systems running on Windows Server environment: Windows services, IIS, Scheduled Tasks
Support of systems running on a UNIX environment: general UNIX navigation ability to read and understand UNIX shell, Perl scripts
Support of SQL database based systems: Good SQL query skills, ability to read Stored Procedures, understanding of basic Query Optimisation
Experience supporting large batch systems typically Control M
Familiarity with monitoring systems like ITRS Geneos
English required

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
Company paid holidays
Personal Days
Sick Leave
Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
Life and disability insurance
Employee assistance programs
Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

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Hard Skills & Tools

FX trading applicationsPnL and Risk ManagementVaRStressed VaRSQLUNIXWindows ServerControl MITRS GeneosFX products

Soft Skills

relationship managementuser supportcommunicationproblem-solvingproactive monitoringteam collaborationtrainingdocumentationownershiparticulation of technical concepts