EU remote
Trading and Risk Advisor - Futures
About this role
Who We Are NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and momentum becomes movement. 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.
Trading Operations & Execution Oversight Advise on the end-to-end futures trading operations stack across multiple platforms and different asset classes. Advice to oversee aggregate trader activity across futures platforms to understand how the trader population behaves, sim farming detection, how profitable vs unprofitable cohorts operate, and where risk concentrates Advise on pattern analysis, odd-trade detection, and gamification reviews to identify behaviour inconsistent with legitimate trading and share what action is recommended.
Translate complex findings into clear recommendations that inform rule design and risk posture. Advice on managing emerging risk patterns before they materialise as losses. Help the team create risk scoring frameworks and trader profiles to help department for the broader terms. Advise on A-book / B-book routing logic, internalisation strategy, and the conditions under which trader flow is hedged externally. Risk Framework Design & Margin Oversight Propose the architecture of the abuse detection framework, risk parameters, and behavioural constraints that govern the trader population Set and review limits at instrument, asset class, client tier, and book level; advise on stress testing and scenario analysis.
Act as the subject-matter expert for trading and risk infrastructure, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and operational resilience under stress. Recommend trader-profile taxonomies that segment the population by strategy, behaviour, and risk contribution. Design and supervise risk frameworks covering market exposure, liquidity, basis, and execution risk on the futures book. Guide A-book vs. internalisation framework decisions based on cohort behaviour, P&L distribution, and risk concentration — informed by industry practice.