Savant Labs is hiring a Risk Manager to strengthen and scale our risk function within a fast-growing forex/CFD brokerage. In this role, you will own day-to-day risk oversight, drive policy execution, and collaborate with Dealing, Compliance, Operations, Product, and Tech to build robust controls and a resilient framework.

What You'll Do

Monitor real-time and end-of-day net exposure, concentration risk, and volatility risk across instruments like FX, metals, indices, and crypto.
Define and maintain risk limits, including exposure caps, concentration thresholds, margin buffers, and escalation rules.
Partner with Dealing to manage hedging logic, execution quality, and abnormal market conditions.
Detect and investigate abusive or high-risk client behaviors such as latency arbitrage, bonus abuse, toxic flow, and spoofing-like patterns.
Implement and optimize risk flags, segmentation rules, and client profiling based on risk scoring.
Recommend and execute risk actions, including leverage restrictions, instrument restrictions, margin adjustments, and account measures.
Build and upgrade risk policies and SOPs covering leverage framework, margin call logic, negative balance protection, and instrument risk parameters.
Run the risk committee cadence, including preparing dashboards, incident reports, action plans, and KPI tracking.
Ensure proper audit trails and structured documentation for all decisions and actions.
Own dashboards and reporting using MT4/MT5, CRM, and BI tools to track exposures, PnL drivers, client cohorts, and exceptions.
Work with Tech and Product teams to automate monitoring, alerts, and rule-based controls.
Improve risk efficiency by reducing manual work through enhanced workflows and tooling.
Align with Compliance on AML-red-flags overlap and suspicious behavior monitoring.
Support Sales and Partnerships with risk input for promotional structures, rebates, and bonus eligibility rules.
Provide training to internal teams on risk best practices and escalation protocols.

What We're Looking For

3+ years in a Risk role within a Forex/CFD brokerage, prop trading firm, liquidity provider, or similar trading environment.
Strong knowledge of margin and leverage mechanics, exposure management, and stop-out logic.
Strong understanding of market microstructure basics, volatility regimes, and news risk.
Strong knowledge of client behavior patterns and trading abuse typologies.
Hands-on experience with MT4/MT5 manager/admin reports and practical risk monitoring.
High analytical capability, including advanced Excel skills; experience with BI tools is a plus.
Clear communication skills and the ability to operate with senior stakeholders under time pressure.

Nice to Have

Experience implementing risk rules and alerts using BI tools, SQL, Python, or internal tooling.
Familiarity with liquidity and prime brokerage setups, including A-Book/B-Book hybrid models.
Previous work in regulated environments such as CySEC, MFSA, or SCA.
Experience designing bonus/promotion risk controls and eligibility frameworks.

Technical Stack

MT4/MT5, CRM, BI tools
Excel, SQL, Python

Team & Environment

You will partner closely with Dealing, Compliance, Operations, Product, and Tech teams.

Benefits & Compensation

High-ownership role with direct impact on trading performance and risk resilience.
Multi-location flexibility, open to candidates in Lebanon, Jordan, or remote.
Competitive compensation aligned to experience with performance-based upside.
Strong growth runway and autonomy to build best-in-class risk systems.