Product Risk Manager

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

NFP015916/MNG

Date posted:

Monday, July 21, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:
Take Your Curiosity to the Markets, Trading Product Risk Managers.

POSITION INFO:
Ever find yourself watching markets move and wondering why they move the way they do? Imagine turning that curiosity into a career where you analyze, challenge, and shape decisions in real-time trading environments.

We’re looking for a Trading Product Risk Manager to join a collaborative team overseeing market, credit, and operational risks across a diverse portfolio of trading products. You’ll work alongside traders, finance, and operations teams to ensure that P&L, valuations, and exposure are accurately captured, understood, and communicated to support informed trading decisions.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Analyzing trading positions, market movements, and pricing of financial instruments.
Validating and explaining P&L and exposure movements daily.
Challenging and refining risk capture and reporting processes.
Collaborating with traders, finance, and operations to support decision-making.

What You Bring:

A passion for markets and risk management within a trading environment.
Experience in product control, market risk, or trading risk management.
Strong Excel skills (bonus if you know VBA or Python for data analysis).
A questioning mindset and attention to detail.

Why This Role?:
You’ll join a high-performing environment where your input shapes trading decisions. You will learn from experienced market professionals while seeing the direct impact of your work on P&L and risk transparency across the desk.

If you love markets, questioning numbers, and want to be at the heart of trading decisions, then let’s talk.

If you’re excited by markets, risk, and working in a fast-moving environment where no two days are the same, let’s chat.

Disclaimer:
If you do not hear back from us within two weeks, please consider your application for this vacancy unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles in the future. We also invite you to reach out to us to discuss your next finance career opportunity.

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