Niklas Höjman

CEO

London, United Kingdom11 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led product teams to drive FX management initiatives.
Successfully launched financial products in multiple countries.
Reduced trading costs significantly through strategic partnerships.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong leadership in product management and risk strategies.

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Skills

Other Skills

Python (Programming Language)Systematic tradingC++Alternative InvestmentsBusiness developmentCorporate GovernanceHedge fundsFinancial marketsFinancial ServicesInvestmentsFinancial ModelingFixed IncomeFXDistributed SystemsDerivatives

Experience

11 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Riva money

CEO & Co-founder

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Revolut

Senior Product Owner

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · London, England, United Kingdom

Product lead for the Transactional ledger and Accounting Platform
Launching in Mexico, India and Brazil
Rolling out a new target architecture processing 0.5bn transactions daily
14 direct reports across Product, Engineering, Analytics and Operations

Wise

Senior Product Manager, Treasury

Aug 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Led a 14-member product team spanning engineering, data science, and analytics, driving initiatives in FX Exposure management and Cash Management. Team achievements include:
Decreased FX losses and decoupled the PnL from market volatility through enhanced risk management strategies and broader utilisation of instruments such as NDFs.
Significantly reduced FX Market Risk breaches.
Lowered Trading Costs by 20% by forging strategic partnerships and leveraging trading platforms to increase competition amongst liquidity providers.
Contributed to ALCO and served as a key Risk owner for FX Market Risk.

Sigtech

Product

Feb 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Leading quant and full stack development project groups of up to 5 developers
Creating investment strategies (cross-asset) in Python
Contributing to the core Python SDK
Exposure to external clients (portfolio managers, quant analysts, etc) for creating new features

Century analytics ab

Co-founder & COO

Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 · 5 yrs · Malmo, Sweden

Century Analytics ("CA") was an alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) authorised by the Swedish FSA. CA specialised in developing trading algorithms based on machine learning that mainly were applied to the global FX market.
The firm operated as a proprietary trading firm up until 2019, when it launched the hedge fund CenturyOne. In 2020, CA's founding team decided to wind down operations and in this process sold its intellectual property rights to an investment manager.

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Analyst - Securities

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · London, England, United Kingdom

Fixed income, Nordics & Benelux

Spring Insight Program - Securities Divison

Apr 2013 – Apr 2013 · 0 mo · London, United Kingdom

Desk Rotations across Sales & Trading including FX G10 Sales & Trading, Emerging Markets FX Sales & Trading IRP Sales & Trading, Equity Sales & Trading and Credit Structuring & Trading

Linc - lund university finance society

President

Apr 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Lund, Sweden

Elected to be the president for one year. During 2013/14, the year-on-year revenues increased by 45%, which allowed us to:
Help a record amount of students to obtain internships and full-time positions within the financial sector
Travel to three financial capitals in order to further increase the students’ exposure to the industry
Increase our member base with 20%, from 700 to 840