Global Head of Risk and Trading

6 hours ago

Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Zeal Group Full time

About us

Zeal Group is an award-winning FinTech organization committed to offering innovative products and solutions. Established in 2017, we have rapidly expanded to a team of over 700 employees globally .

With offices strategically located across Europe, Asia, North & South Africa, the Middle East, and South America, our technology hubs are centred in Cyprus .

We pride ourselves on being a people-oriented and product-focused company that values growth, collaboration, and groundbreaking technology .

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and forward-thinking Global Head of Risk & Trading to lead our global risk, trading, and quantitative strategy functions Zeal Group.

You will oversee a global team responsible for real-time trading risk management, pricing integrity, order-flow analytics and trading-fraud prevention.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Quantitative Finance, or similar.
  • 5–8+ years of CFD/FX risk or trading experience in a retail brokerage (mandatory).
  • Strong knowledge of FX/CFD products, pricing, liquidity, and order-flow dynamics.
  • Deep understanding of trading fraud/abuse scenarios and risk controls.
  • Experience with quantitative modelling; familiarity with Python/SQL is a plus.
  • Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail.
  • Proven leadership skills and the ability to manage global teams.
  • Strong communication, organisational, and problem-solving abilities

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