Global Head of Risk and Trading

Zeal Group is seeking a Global Head of Risk & Trading to lead their global risk, trading, and quantitative strategy functions. The ideal candidate will have 5-8+ years of CFD/FX risk or trading experience in a retail brokerage and a strong understanding of trading fraud/abuse scenarios and risk controls.

Requirements

• Lead global risk, trading, and quant analytics teams across MT4/MT5 and proprietary platforms.
• Build and implement quantitative risk models using machine learning/AI for client classification, order-flow analysis, and predictive risk monitoring.
• Analyse CFD order flows (with a focus on gold and high-volatility products) to identify patterns, risks, and profitability opportunities.
• Detect and investigate trading abuse, fraud, latency arbitrage, bonus exploitation, and other high-risk behaviours.
• Assess risk in new/existing trading products and promotional campaigns; propose mitigation strategies.
• Reduce losses from abusive trading by enhancing controls, automation, and risk processes.
• Drive automation initiatives across the risk and trading stack—logic engines, alerts, dashboards, and workflow automation.