Risk Manager (Forex / CFD Brokerage)

About the role

DB Investing is seeking a Risk Manager to strengthen and scale its risk function within a fast‑growing forex and CFD brokerage. You will own day‑to‑day market and client risk oversight, drive policy execution, and collaborate with Dealing, Compliance, Operations, Product and Technology to ensure robust controls and a resilient risk framework.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor real‑time and end‑of‑day net exposure, concentration risk and volatility across FX, metals, indices, crypto and other instruments.
• Define and maintain risk limits, exposure caps, margin buffers and escalation rules.
• Partner with Dealing to manage hedging logic, execution quality and abnormal market conditions.
• Detect and investigate abusive or high‑risk client behaviours such as latency arbitrage, bonus abuse, spoofing‑like patterns and scalping anomalies.
• Implement and optimise risk flags, segmentation rules and client profiling.
• Recommend risk actions including leverage restrictions, instrument limits, margin adjustments and account measures.
• Build and update risk policies and SOPs covering leverage, stop‑out logic, negative balance protection, weekend/overnight risk and news risk.
• Run risk committee meetings, produce dashboards, incident reports and KPI tracking.
• Own dashboards and reporting tools (MT4/MT5, CRM, BI) and work with Tech/Product to automate monitoring and alerts.

Required profile

• Minimum 3 years (36 months) of experience in risk management within a forex/CFD brokerage or similar trading environment.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to design and implement risk controls.
• Proven ability to work cross‑functionally with Dealing, Compliance, Operations, Product and Technology teams.
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail for audit trails and documentation.

Required skills

• MT5
• MT4
• SQL
• Excel
• Python
• BI Tools