Quantitative Risk Manager at nextventures – Dubai | Jobyssey

Who We Are

NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and movement becomes momentum. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world's most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm—220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.

Your Role in Our Mission

The Senior Risk Manager is the senior leader of NEXT Ventures’s Trading & Risk Management Department — accountable for the firm’s investigative and risk analytical function across all product lines: CFD, Futures, and our upcoming Crypto vertical.

This role unifies dealing-desk analytical leadership with investigation oversight, serving as the operational bridge between flow analysis, abuse detection, and rule enforcement — ensuring coherent judgment from book-level pattern detection through to account-level case resolution. You are a single point of cross-product analytical and investigative leadership for NEXT Ventures.

The ideal candidate combines dealing-desk heritage with investigation leadership experience — someone who moves between the trading floor and the analytics function with equal confidence, reads aggregate flow with instinct, and structures investigations with discipline. You think in populations before individual cases, pull the thread on data anomalies until the full story is clear across trading, identity, and payment behaviour, and translate findings into business decisions rather than observations.

You anticipate rather than react. You identify problems before they become losses. You think across products and asset classes naturally, surface uncomfortable findings without waiting to be asked, and lead decisively in environments where the playbook is still being written.

How You'll Make an Impact

Cross-Product Risk Leadership

Own the firm's risk and investigation strategy across all product lines, ensuring methodology coherence and shared standards across CFD, Futures, and Crypto
Translate aggregate book intelligence into actionable risk design, risk threshold recommendations, and investigation prioritisation
Set the analytical agenda — what gets monitored, how patterns are surfaced, and how findings flow into product and commercial decisions
Bring an industry-level view of how proprietary trading operates across CFD, Futures, and Crypto, and apply it to our risk posture
Benchmark internal trader behaviour against broader market trends and competitor product structures
Represent the department in cross-functional forums covering Product, Tech, Marketing, Community, and Partner stakeholders
Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the global FX, CFD, futures, and crypto prop trading industries — tracking evolving rule structures, challenge designs, payout models, competitor product moves, trader sentiment, and emerging market developments

Functional Leadership & Operations

Lead Investigation Leads across CFD and Futures, setting performance standards, methodology, and case quality benchmarks
Direct, mentor, and retain a cross-product team of Investigation Leads and Senior Analysts — establishing supervision routines, performance standards, and career paths, actively coaching on advanced pattern recognition and decision-making under pressure
Drive and standardise the firm’s investigation playbook across CFD and Futures — defining case escalation criteria, evidence standards, verdict frameworks, and communication protocols, ensuring all methodologies are documented to prevent knowledge silos
Drive automation and tooling improvements — dashboards, monitoring systems, alerting frameworks — to scale oversight as volume grows
Partner with HR and the Head of Department on hiring, calibration, and succession planning across the function

Risk Framework and Rule Design

Propose the architecture of the abuse detection framework, risk parameters, and behavioural constraints that govern the trader population across products
Conduct quantitative simulations and historical performance audits to calibrate risk filters, balancing protection of firm capital with trader experience
Identify platform vulnerabilities and exploit patterns and recommend countermeasures across CFD, Futures, and Crypto environments
Recommend risk policies on product lines, platforms, and competitor strategies to the Head of Department
Drive risk automation, dashboard development, and KPI maturity across the investigation and analytics functions
Provide evidence-backed input to teams on rule calibration, challenge design, and platform configuration decisions
Represent the department in cross-functional forums where risk evidence informs business strategy

What You Bring

7+ years of experience in trading risk, brokerage risk, dealing, FCM/futures supervision, or trade surveillance — with at least 4 years in a senior or leadership capacity
Demonstrated experience operating at or alongside a dealing desk: reading aggregate flow, managing book-level exposure, and interpreting population-scale trader behaviour
Proven track record of leading investigation, surveillance, or risk analytics teams and directly managing senior contributors
Multi-asset experience: meaningful exposure to both CFD/FX and futures markets, with willingness and capability to extend into Crypto
Advanced quantitative capability — Excel, SQL, Python/R or equivalent — and the ability to direct technical teams in building the right analytical infrastructure
Excellent judgment, integrity, and the ability to make decisive, high-impact decisions under pressure
Strong communication skills across investigation teams, dealing desks, product, marketing, tech, and senior leadership
Preferred degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a field related to Risk

Your X-Factor

Direct experience in the proprietary trading firm or trader evaluation industry
Familiarity with both CFD platforms (MT4, MT5, cTrader, Match Trader) and futures platforms (NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, CQG)
Experience with BI and visualisation tools (Metabase, Sigma, Looker, Tableau, Power BI)
Hands-on experience with Excel, SQL, Python/R or equivalent to extract data and analyse trader behaviour from large datasets
Exposure to CFDs, Futures, Crypto, and other financial instruments
Experience using AI tools to accelerate analytical and investigative work — someone who moves faster and sees further because of how they use AI, not just someone who is aware of it

Your Journey After Applying

30-minute HR Interview with the Talent Acquisition team
45-minute Problem Solving Interview (department front-line manager)
60-minute Bar Raiser Interview (Top Management)

Why Join NEXT

This is a rare opportunity to own risk and investigation leadership across one of the fastest-growing prop trading platforms in the world. You will not be managing a steady-state function — you will be building the analytical infrastructure, leading the team, and shaping the framework that protects the firm as it scales into new asset classes. The problems are hard, the scale is real, and the mandate is yours.

At NEXT Ventures, we believe the right talent fuels breakthrough innovation. Join our team of bold thinkers where finance meets transformation.

Apply now and be part of our journey — the future is calling, and it starts with you.

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