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Electronic Trading Risk Manager

Oversee electronic-trading execution risks at UBS. The role tests control effectiveness, monitors alerts and investigates market-impact or disorderly-trading issues.

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.

Review execution limits and control thresholds.
Analyse warning data and investigate trading incidents.
Improve the execution control framework with trading and technology teams.
Present findings at risk and governance forums.

What they ask for

Required

Electronic trading or quant experience
Market structure and execution risks
Complex-dataset analysis
Regulatory remediation
Technical stakeholder communication

Preferred

Python, Tableau or KDB

Education: No degree requirement stated.
Experience: Relevant electronic-trading, IT or quant experience; no minimum years stated.
Markets: equities, fixed-income

How to prepare

Analyse how an execution limit behaves during a liquidity shock.
Build an alert-quality review using historical trading data.
Document a trading incident with corrective control changes.

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