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Experienced Risk Manager

at IMC Trading

Mid LevelNo visa sponsorshipPython

Posted 20 hours ago

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Compensation: $150,000 – $210,000 USD
City: Chicago
Country: United States

**Experienced Risk Manager** drives risk management for Delta One business at IMC, Chicago. Collaborating with traders, quants, and engineers, this role shapes IMC's risk approach, influencing day-to-day trading and long-term risk framework evolution. Key responsibilities include understanding and mitigating market, credit, capital, and operational risks, while challenging assumptions and building risk management frameworks. Proven risk management experience (5+ years), familiarity with trading strategies, and strong collaboration skills are required. Proficiency in financial modeling, data analysis tools (e.g., Python, SQL), and risk management software is expected. This role offers direct senior leadership exposure and significant business visibility.

IMC is looking for an Experienced Risk Manager to join our Chicago Risk team, focusing primarily on Delta One business. Risk at IMC is deeply integrated with trading—we don't operate as a separate control function. Instead, we work sideby-side with traders and technology teams to understand risk, challenge assumptions, and help build the frameworks that support better trading decisions. Our team has a broad mandate across market, credit, capital, and operational risk. Rather than assigning rigid responsibilities, we encourage people to contribute wherever they can have the greatest impact. You'll collaborate daily with traders, quantitative researchers, and software engineers while helping shape the firm's approach to risk across existing and emerging trading strategies. This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative team with significant visibility across the business, direct exposure to senior leadership, and the ability to influence both day-to-day trading decisions and the long-term evolution of IMC's risk framework.

Your Core Responsibilities:

Partner closely with traders to identify, monitor, and manage risk across a wide range of trading strategies
Monitor and analyze market, credit, capital, and operational risks across IMC's portfolios
Develop and enhance risk methodologies for products including equities, ETFs, futures, and other exchange-traded instruments
Analyze concentration risk, tail-event scenarios, and other portfolio-level exposures to improve risk visibility and decision-making
Build and enhance quantitative risk tools, reporting, and monitoring frameworks using Python
Partner with software engineering teams to improve risk infrastructure and automate risk workflows
Work closely with traders to evaluate new strategies, products, and markets while ensuring appropriate risk controls are in place
Challenge existing processes and propose new frameworks that improve how IMC understands and manages risk

Your Skills and Experience:

5+ years of experience in financial risk management, quantitative risk, or a related front-office risk function
Experience supporting exchange-traded products such as equities, ETFs, futures, or other linear products
Familiarity with Delta One trading strategies
Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
Proficiency in Python for data analysis, risk analytics, or automation
Working knowledge of SQL is preferred
Ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts to traders, engineers, and business stakeholders
Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with significant ownership and autonomy
FINRA SIE and Series 57, or willingness to obtain them after joining IMC

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range

$150,000

$210,000

USD

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

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