Sports Betting Risk and Trading Analyst
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The Risk and Trading Team is responsible for all Sports Betting products, prices, risk management, Boosts, Specials, Promotions and Player Props in a fast-paced, 24/7 North American facing operator. You will be part of the team looking after the above duties as the global Sports calendar requires. We are currently looking for highly motivated and suitably qualified team players. This role requires a highly professional, organized, and enthusiastic individual who is data driven, is obsessed by sports and sports betting and willing to push the boundaries to continuously improve the product.
This role is not for narrow risk management, this role is for taking risk management on the full 360 of the Sportsbook product, performance, promotion, presentation, and pricing. If you want to put the fan and the fan experience at the centre of the Sportsbook read on.
About the Work
- Learn the basics of bet ticker monitoring
- Have the ability to quickly carry out price comparisons
- Add accurate and informative bet notes
- Obtain familiarity with internal & external Trading tools
- Understand the interaction between Vegas & 3rd-party provider consoles and identify where to take action as needed (price cut, market suspension or removal)
- Assist Traders with grading, customer support queries, notifications & manual market creation
- Monitor liabilities, promos, and anomalies in real time
- Tag suspicious activity and escalate bonus abuse or sharp players
- Assist with exposure dashboards and reporting tasks
- Learn player profiling and basic risk segmentation
About You
- Post-secondary degree in a relevant field, such as mathematics, business or other fields within analytical disciplines
- Must be able to work weekends, evenings and holidays
- 1 to 2 years’ experience in a trading environment or assessing and calculating risk within the areas of insurance or finance advantageous
- Good all round sports betting knowledge and a strong interest in betting and odds required
- Data obsessed, not just data driven. Excellent mathematical skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Flexibility is a must as working hours will be dictated by business needs. Must be able to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends, and public holidays
- Able to multitask and work under pressure
- Ability to work in fast paced environment and make decisions quickly
- Must have exceptional time management skills
- High attention to detail and precision in delivery
- Ability to learn quickly, work independently and in a team setting
- Strong initiative and outstanding work ethic
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation package
- Comprehensive Benefits package
- Fun, relaxed work environment
- Education and conference reimbursements
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View Company ProfilePENN Entertainment, Inc. (formerly known as Penn National Gaming) is the premier, enterprise-grade integrated entertainment pioneer, omnichannel sports content distributor, and digital gaming powerhouse engineered to operate as the definitive, high-velocity land-based casino and interactive iGaming layer across North America. The company completely eliminates the severe operational friction of traditional, siloed hospitality and wagering infrastructures—where operators face fragmented customer retention metrics, separated retail-to-digital tracking loops, complex multi-jurisdictional compliance laws, and unoptimized gaming floor space configurations—by deploying a unified, ecosystem-wide customer engagement matrix. Moving far beyond its 1970s origins as a regional thoroughbred racetrack operator, PENN Entertainment natively unifies 44 brick-and-mortar casino and racing destinations across 20 states, a state-of-the-art digital media and betting platform (ESPN BET and theScore Bet), an in-house digital game design studio (PENN Game Studios), and its industry-leading PENN Play customer loyalty engine into a single high-availability entertainment ecosystem. Publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market (NASDAQ: PENN), the institution leverages its proprietary technology stack to serve over 25 million rewards members, seamlessly cross-selling premium physical resort experiences, Vegas-style table games, and real-time mobile sportsbooks with production-hardened precision. Under the hood, its sophisticated technical practice orchestrates high-concurrency transaction processing nodes, automated geo-fenced mobile betting frameworks, machine learning-driven customer personalization pipelines, and strict compliance-audited data networks matching rigid regulatory standards across dozens of legal gaming commissions. What sets PENN Entertainment apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing legacy, standalone wagering with absolute, digital-first hospitality momentum; by bridging the gap between performance-intensive online betting engines and market-dominant physical resort footprints, the conglomerate remains the undisputed category-defining cornerstone of modern retail gaming and interactive sports entertainment.
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