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Jiawei Tang

Jiawei Tang

IL

Summary

Risk professional with 6+ years of experience in real-time, intraday risk monitoring across derivatives and multi-asset trading environments. Strong background in quantitative risk analytics, limit frameworks, and automated surveillance, with hands-on experience partnering with trading, technology, and operations teams in fast-moving markets. Prior exposure to quant research and backtesting, with a strong interest in transitioning risk from static controls to adaptive, strategy-aware frameworks suitable for high-frequency and quantitative trading desks.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Market Risk Analyst

R.J. O’Brien & Associates (StoneX Group)
02.2020 - Current

• Monitored real-time and intraday trading risk across derivatives accounts, tracking PnL volatility, exposure changes, margin utilization, and abnormal trading behavior during high-volatility market conditions.

• Designed and enforced pre-trade and intraday risk limits across traders and trading entities, including position, exposure, and loss thresholds, with structured escalation and audit trails.

• Conducted intraday stress assessments during market surges, identifying concentration and liquidity risks beyond standard margin metrics.

• Investigated risk breaches, rejected orders, and execution anomalies, working closely with trading, technology, and operations teams to diagnose root causes and prevent recurrence.

• Built and maintained automated risk monitoring and reporting pipelines in Python, achieving ~90% automation of intraday and daily risk surveillance and materially reducing response latency.

• Produced daily and intraday risk reports for senior management, synthesizing exposure, drawdowns, and emerging risk signals into actionable insights.

• Gained hands-on familiarity with exchange-level risk controls, including messaging violations, self-trade prevention, and platform-level throttles.

Compliance Associate

International Bank of Chicago
09.2019 - 02.2020
  • Supported end‑to‑end client onboarding by
    performing CIP and CDD checks in accordance
    with BSA/AML and USA PATRIOT Act
    requirements. Verified customer identities,
    reviewed beneficial ownership information for
    legal entities, and completed OFAC, PEP, and
    adverse media screenings to ensure
    compliance with regulatory standards.
  • Reviewed and analyzed daily
    transaction‑monitoring alerts for unusual or
    high‑risk payment activity. Assessed
    transactions against customer profiles,
    identified potential red flags, documented
    findings in case management systems, and
    escalated suspicious cases for further
    investigation when necessary.

Quantitative Researcher

Balyasny Asset Management
02.2018 - 06.2018

• Conducted quantitative research on ETF relative-value strategies, achieving ~65% hit ratio and ~70 bps average return per trade in backtests.

• Designed and implemented a Python-based backtesting and analysis framework, including performance attribution and scenario analysis.

• Built interactive post-trade analytics dashboards (Bokeh) to support portfolio-level decision making.

• Processed and analyzed large historical datasets using optimized data structures, multithreading, and efficient indexing techniques.

Education

Master of Science - Computational Finance

DePaul University
Chicago, IL
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Arts - Finance

Guangzhou University
China
05.2001 -

Skills

    Programming: Python (Pandas, NumPy, Bokeh, SQLite), SQL

    Data & Analytics: Intraday risk analytics, backtesting, stress testing, reporting automation

    Tools: Excel (VBA, Macros), data pipelines, visualization dashboards

Timeline

Senior Market Risk Analyst

R.J. O’Brien & Associates (StoneX Group)
02.2020 - Current

Compliance Associate

International Bank of Chicago
09.2019 - 02.2020

Quantitative Researcher

Balyasny Asset Management
02.2018 - 06.2018

Master of Science - Computational Finance

DePaul University
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Arts - Finance

Guangzhou University
05.2001 -
Jiawei Tang