• Responsibility for all financial and operational risks across the 10 EMEA & Asia entities of the Group, ensuring the promotion of risk culture at all levels.• Management and leadership of the individual Risk teams covering Market Risk, Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Valuations, Operational Risk, and Risk Reporting in EMEA & Asia, covering the Wholesale and Retail business lines.• Responsibility for the EMEA & Asia Risk budget.• Ownership of the Risk Management Framework for each entity, setting appropriate Risk Appetite levels with local Board approval.• Ownership of all EMEA & Asia Risk policies and procedures, ensuring professional standards and conformance to regulations throughout.• Responsibility for the successful roll out of all Risk related projects, whether internal to the department, or to accommodate new businesses, initiatives, or systems.• Owner and one of the main contributors of the ICAAP and ICARA regulatory requirements including risk models, documentation, and processes to ensure the capital of the firm remains appropriate to cover the level of inherent risk across all risk types.• Quarterly Risk Board Report presentations to the Boards of all EMEA & Asia entities, including Risk Committees.• Approval of client and counterparty credit limits and exposure across all business lines as a sole signatory in most cases as delegated by the Board, whilst ensuring an appropriate balance between risk and reward.• Exception approval of both credit and market risk exposures.• Member of the following UK committees – Risk, Executive, Operational, CASS, Liquidity, Approvals / New Products, Liquidity, Compliance, Financial Crime.• Asset classes covered: Base and Precious Metal - Financial and Physical, Global Exchange Cleared F&O, OTC Commodities, OTC FX, CFDs, Global Payments, Securities - Fixed Income & Equity DVP, Equity Swaps, Custody.

• Establishing the Market Risk department as the company evolved, setting clear policies and procedures.• Streamlining reporting and monitoring functions within the department.• Merging new business streams into the existing Risk Management Framework.• Ensuring exposures conform to the approved risk appetite level.• Approval and monitoring of electronic trading limits.• Managing client margin calls by collaborating closely with Client Services and the Account Executive.• Ensuring adherence to all house and client mandated limits.• Assisting clients and internal traders with specific valuation and margin queries.

• Co-ordinating Risk infrastructure requirements with the various Risk departments and senior management on a global scale.• Managing the Risk system projects, developments, and upgrades with external vendors and internal IT departments.• Improving the current Risk monitoring capabilities with increased product and exchange coverage, improved stability, standardisation across platforms, and reduced costs.• Development of a new global Risk reporting system, including working closely with vendors, internal training with dealing desks and back offices, and holding weekly update meetings and presentations.• Development of trade feeds from brokers and systems into TEO to feed the downstream Risk systems.• Testing of all development work completed.• Identifying gaps with intraday trade capture and enhancing feeds and systems to ensure all business is captured throughout the day.• Asset classes covered including Futures & Options, OTC Options including FX, CFDs, Equities, Fixed Income, Commodities and Energy.

• Portfolio analysis of client positions for daily reporting.• Various management and exception reports including CFD concentration, large exposures, house positions, and end of day movement and position reporting.• VaR analysis of house positions and daily reporting to management and desk heads.• Line Manager of the 24-hour Risk monitoring team where I developed and streamlined the Market Risk monitoring processes and ensuring all staff were cross-trained and passed the relevant FSA exams.• Intraday trade monitoring - including identifying potential issues and escalating to relevant trading desks and management.• Assisting brokers and clients with various initial margin calculation requests.• Asset classes covered include Futures and Options, CFDs, Equities, Commodities and Energy.• DR office co-ordinator for Market Risk.• Approving payments and inward / outward trade transfers.• Approving and setting up of internal broker and client trading limits.• Electronic account set ups on various systems and platforms.• Admin updates of risk systems.