Company Overview

The organisation operates within the foreign exchange and financial technology sector, supporting currency trading, liquidity management, and digital financial services. Its risk function focuses on maintaining disciplined trading controls, monitoring market exposures, and strengthening risk governance across foreign exchange operations.

Role Summary

The Market Risk Manager — FX will oversee market risk monitoring and control activities across foreign exchange trading operations. The role involves assessing currency exposure, monitoring trading limits, analysing market volatility, and providing timely risk insights to support informed trading and treasury decisions. The successful candidate will help maintain a robust risk framework while ensuring that emerging market threats are identified and addressed promptly.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor foreign exchange positions, currency exposures, and market risk indicators across trading portfolios.

• Establish, review, and maintain appropriate trading limits, escalation thresholds, and exposure controls.

• Conduct stress testing, scenario analysis, and sensitivity assessments to evaluate potential losses under changing market conditions.

• Analyse foreign exchange movements, interest rate changes, liquidity conditions, and macroeconomic developments.

• Investigate limit breaches and unusual exposure movements, escalating material concerns to relevant stakeholders.

• Prepare regular market risk reports covering portfolio exposure, risk concentrations, and limit utilisation.

• Collaborate with trading, treasury, finance, compliance, and technology teams to strengthen risk oversight.

• Review risk models, methodologies, and monitoring tools to improve accuracy and operational effectiveness.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Financial Engineering, or a related discipline.

• At least five years of relevant experience in market risk, foreign exchange risk, treasury risk, or financial markets.

• Strong understanding of FX products, currency derivatives, trading positions, and exposure measurement.

• Practical experience with Value at Risk (VaR), stress testing, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis.

• Proficiency in Excel and experience with SQL, Python, or financial risk analytics platforms.

• Strong analytical, reporting, and problem-solving capabilities.

• Ability to communicate complex risk findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Familiarity with financial risk governance and applicable European regulatory expectations is an advantage.

Benefits

• Fully remote working arrangement within Estonia, subject to employment eligibility.

• Opportunity to influence foreign exchange risk strategy and trading controls.

• Professional development in market risk analytics and financial technology.

• Collaborative environment involving trading, treasury, and technology professionals.

• Competitive compensation based on experience and responsibilities.

Application Instructions

Interested candidates should submit an up-to-date CV highlighting their FX market risk experience, risk modelling capabilities, and relevant financial markets expertise. Include a concise overview of previous responsibilities involving exposure monitoring, risk reporting, and trading limit management. Application contact details and submission channels should be confirmed through the recruiting organisation.

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