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Graduate Trading Risk Analyst

A graduate risk role at Da Vinci, a proprietary trading firm, monitoring market risk on live trading and building risk tools. It works closely with traders, quants and developers.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Monitor positions, exposures and P&L in real time
Build tools and models for market risk
Run scenario analyses, stress tests and backtests
Create risk dashboards and visualisations
Investigate anomalies in trading behaviour or data

What they ask for

Required

Bachelor's or master's in econometrics or similar
Interest in derivatives and risk management
Python or C++ for data analysis
Statistics, probability and financial modelling
Strong analytical skills
Clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred

SQL
Excel
VBA

Education: Bachelor's or master's (current or recent) in econometrics or similar
Experience: New or recent graduates
Languages and tools: Python
C++
SQL
Excel
VBA
Markets: futures, options

How to prepare

Compute portfolio Greeks and VaR for an options book in Python
Design a stress-test scenario set and show its effect on P&L
Learn futures and options risk drivers: delta, gamma, vega and basis
Build a small real-time style dashboard that flags limit breaches
Study past trading risk incidents and what controls would have caught them

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Da Vinci Trading and doesn’t handle applications.