Director, Market Risk – FX Options & Rates Derivatives

Robert Walters is working exclusively with a leading international banking organisation to appoint a Director within its EMEA Market Risk function.

Director, Market Risk – FX Options & Rates Derivatives

London | Permanent | Competitive salary and bonus

Robert Walters is working exclusively with a leading international banking organisation to appoint a Director within its EMEA Market Risk function.

This is a senior, highly technical second-line Market Risk appointment with responsibility for independent oversight of an FX Options franchise—including vanilla and exotic products—alongside material coverage of fixed-income and interest-rate derivatives.

The role

• Provide end-to-end independent Market Risk oversight across FX, FX Options and fixed-income derivatives trading portfolios.

• Cover spot FX, forwards, vanilla options and exotic structures, including barriers, digitals, Asians, lookbacks, quantos and volatility-linked products.

• Oversee rates and fixed-income derivatives risk, including interest-rate swaps, OIS and basis swaps, cross-currency swaps, inflation products, swaptions and structured rates transactions.

• Design and lead bespoke stress-testing and reverse-stress-testing analysis across FX and rates derivatives, including cross-asset scenarios, volatility shocks, yield-curve movements, liquidity events and correlation breakdowns.

• Support FRTB analysis, including Internal Models Approach, Standardised Approach for Trading Book, Expected Shortfall and associated regulatory-capital considerations.

• Develop and enhance risk analytics and P&L-explain tools, using Python where appropriate.

Candidate profile

• Extensive Market Risk experience gained within an investment bank or comparable trading environment.

• Deep FX Options expertise, including genuine exposure to exotic-option risk and volatility-surface dynamics.

• Strong working knowledge of interest-rate and fixed-income derivatives risk, ideally including cross-currency, inflation and swaption exposure.

• Experience of FRTB and trading-book market-risk capital frameworks.

• Strong Python capability for risk analytics, stress testing or P&L explain; Murex exposure would be beneficial.

If you meet the above set criteria, please apply or send a copy of your CV to hadjra.sohawon@robertwalters.com

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