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Junior Risk Manager – Discretionary

A risk role on Squarepoint's growing discretionary trading team, building the risk framework and controls for the business. You work with traders and quants on portfolio-level risk.

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.

Check strategies stay within allocated risk limits
Analyse portfolio-level risk and performance drivers
Support portfolio construction for discretionary books
Improve risk processes and infrastructure

What they ask for

Required

Quantitative bachelor's degree
Interest in risk management
Quantitative approach
Working with traders and quants
Communication across teams
Urgency

Preferred

Advanced degree

Education: Bachelor's in a quantitative field such as maths, statistics, econometrics, financial engineering, OR, CS or physics; advanced degree preferred.
Experience: From graduate level up to 3 years of commercial experience.
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Compute VaR, exposures and factor risk for a sample portfolio
Study market, operational and conduct risk
Learn risk-adjusted performance attribution
Practise explaining risk to traders in plain terms

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 Squarepoint Capital and doesn’t handle applications.