Senior Futures Risk Analyst

moomoo•Jersey City, NJ

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Futu US Inc. is a financial services company that operates two SEC-registered broker-dealers and a cryptocurrency brokerage under Futu Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: FUTU). The company aims to innovate the investing landscape with a digitized brokerage and wealth management platform. Key entities include Futu Clearing Inc. (clearing and execution services), Moomoo Financial Inc. (access to U.S. and Asian securities markets for retail investors), and Moomoo Technology Inc. (trading platform with insights and tools). This role is responsible for monitoring client and proprietary risk exposures, administering trading and credit controls, evaluating margin and collateral adequacy, and escalating market and credit-risk issues within the Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) risk management team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
3–7 years of relevant experience in futures risk management, clearing operations, margin operations, or credit risk at an FCM, clearing firm, futures broker, or exchange.
Strong understanding of futures contract specifications, settlement and delivery mechanics, and product-specific risk characteristics across equity index, fixed-income, commodity, FX, and options-on-futures products.
Practical knowledge of initial margin, maintenance margin, variation margin, intraday margin calls, and end-of-day margin processes.
Experience monitoring client portfolios for market, credit, margin, concentration, and liquidity risk.
Familiarity with futures margin methodologies, including SPAN, CME CORE, or comparable risk-based margin frameworks.
Working knowledge of exchange and firm position limits, accountability levels, reportable-position requirements, and account aggregation concepts.
Experience interpreting stress-testing and VaR results and translating them into appropriate risk decisions or escalations.
Familiarity with CME Globex Credit Controls (“GC2”) or comparable pre-trade credit-control and order-risk-control tools.
Ability to investigate market-data and position-data anomalies, including stale prices, erroneous trades or ticks, and data-feed disruptions.
Knowledge of escalation procedures for margin deficiencies, risk-limit breaches, trading restrictions, and forced liquidation.
Familiarity with CFTC, NFA, and CME Group rules applicable to FCM risk operations.
Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and ability to make sound time-sensitive decisions.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience at a self-clearing FCM or CME Clearing Member.
Experience administering GC2 limits and monitoring blocked, cancelled, or restricted orders.
Experience evaluating non-cash collateral, including collateral haircuts, concentration limits, and eligibility requirements.
Series 3 registration or ability to obtain it within a defined period after hire.
FRM, PRM, CFA, or similar risk-management certification.
Experience with risk-reporting tools, SQL, Python, Excel/VBA, or data-analysis platforms.

Responsibilities

Monitor real-time and end-of-day market, credit, margin, and liquidity exposures across client accounts and proprietary positions.
Execute established risk-monitoring procedures; identify, investigate, document, and escalate risk-limit breaches and unusual account activity promptly.
Administer CME Globex Credit Controls (“GC2”), including setting and maintaining approved pre-trade exposure and maximum-order-quantity limits for futures and options.
Evaluate client margin adequacy, including initial and maintenance margin requirements, variation margin, intraday deficits, and collateral coverage.
Monitor stress-testing and Value-at-Risk (“VaR”) results; identify portfolio vulnerabilities and escalate material adverse-risk scenarios.
Monitor exchange-imposed and firm-specific position limits, accountability levels, and reportable-position thresholds; investigate and escalate potential breaches.
Assess the quality, eligibility, concentration, liquidity, valuation, and applicable haircuts of margin collateral.
Investigate risk alerts that may arise from stale prices, erroneous ticks, feed disruptions, position-data issues, or other market-data-integrity concerns; distinguish genuine risk events from data-driven false signals.
Execute risk escalation procedures, including trading restrictions, credit-limit changes, and support for partial or full account liquidations in accordance with delegated authority and firm policy.
Monitor upcoming market-risk events—including economic releases, geopolitical developments, contract expirations, delivery periods, and market holidays—and recommend appropriate adjustments to risk parameters or monitoring thresholds.
Partner with Clearing Operations, Compliance, Finance, Technology, and the business to resolve risk issues and improve control effectiveness.
Prepare daily risk reports, exception logs, incident summaries, and management reporting.
Participate in risk-control testing, procedure development, system enhancements, and regulatory or internal-audit requests.