Quantitative Risk Manager (Fintech)

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, or Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Company

hirify.global operates a performance-based capital platform through its FundedNext brand, serving traders across CFD, futures, and planned crypto products.

What you will do

• Own risk and investigation strategy across CFD, futures, and crypto products, maintaining consistent methodologies and standards.
• Translate aggregate book intelligence and trader behaviour patterns into risk designs, thresholds, investigation priorities, and business recommendations.
• Lead Investigation Leads and Senior Analysts, setting performance standards, coaching advanced pattern recognition, and managing hiring, calibration, and succession planning.
• Build and standardise investigation playbooks, including escalation criteria, evidence standards, verdict frameworks, communication protocols, and documentation.
• Develop abuse-detection frameworks, risk parameters, behavioural constraints, dashboards, monitoring systems, alerting, and KPI infrastructure.
• Conduct quantitative simulations, historical performance audits, vulnerability analysis, and cross-functional risk reviews for product, technology, marketing, and leadership teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in trading risk, brokerage risk, dealing, FCM/futures supervision, or trade surveillance, including at least 4 years in a senior or leadership capacity.
• Experience operating at or alongside a dealing desk, including reading aggregate flow, managing book-level exposure, and interpreting population-scale trader behaviour.
• Experience leading investigation, surveillance, or risk analytics teams and directly managing senior contributors.
• Meaningful multi-asset exposure to both CFD/FX and futures markets, with the capability and willingness to extend into crypto.
• Advanced quantitative capability with Excel, SQL, Python/R, or equivalent, plus the ability to direct technical teams building analytical infrastructure.
• Excellent judgment, integrity, and decisive decision-making under pressure.
• Strong communication across investigation teams, dealing desks, product, marketing, technology, and senior leadership.
• Preferred degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Risk, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Direct experience in proprietary trading or trader evaluation.
• Familiarity with CFD platforms including MT4, MT5, cTrader, and Match Trader, and futures platforms including NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, and CQG.
• Experience with BI and visualisation tools such as Metabase, Sigma, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Hands-on experience using Excel, SQL, Python/R, or equivalent to analyse trader behaviour in large datasets.
• Exposure to CFDs, futures, crypto, and other financial instruments.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate analytical and investigative work.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build the analytical infrastructure and risk framework for a rapidly scaling prop trading platform.
• Work across multiple asset classes, including CFD, futures, and an upcoming crypto product.
• Cross-functional environment spanning product, technology, marketing, community, partners, and senior leadership.
• Role offers ownership of a developing function rather than management of a steady-state operation.

Hiring process

• 30-minute HR interview with the Talent Acquisition team.
• 45-minute problem-solving interview with the department front-line manager.
• 60-minute Bar Raiser interview with top management.