Senior Associate FX Trading

The Role:
As a Senior Associate, FX Trading, your primary responsibility will be to build and develop a trading strategy for all major currencies in Africa & Europe. Additionally, deal structuring would be involved to service our concierge merchants, as well as pricing for our products (i.e remittance and others)

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
-Support the development of a strategy for building and scaling a trading desk for EM for G10 currencies, closely managing liquidity across major positions.
-Support the development and implement an hedging strategy across major markets
-Support the Structuring of treasury deals for large merchants across the globes,
-Support the establishment of pricing rules for remittance products and new products as required.
-Support the development of a risk management policy to cover FX and liquidity risks
-Produce newsletters and think piece for merchants
-Establish strong working partnerships externally with key banking partners, LPs &
internal stakeholders
-Ensure standard daily and periodic reporting and maintain process documentation
for all relevant reports including funding and certain liquidity metrics.
-Support new bank onboarding & FX trading activities as needed.
-Produce financial analysis and market trends reports on FX and liquidity exposures.
-Maintains knowledge of financial markets and regulatory updates
-Ensures compliance with all banking laws, rules, regulations, and prescribed
policies/practices/procedures necessary to reduce risk and uphold ethical standards.

Related to and required by one’s duties:
-Continuous evaluation of current processes vis-à-vis best industry practices
-The role also involves continuous and effective engagement of relevant stakeholders in achieving operational efficiency and revenue growth.

Required competency and skillset to be a waver:
-4+ years post graduate experience in finance/trading
-Experience & understanding of international payments, banking systems, Crypto and Defi workflow platforms.
-Good understanding of the EM and G10 FX trading operations and local regulations.
-Proficiency in Excel, SQL and relevant tools
-Experience or familiarity with all or some of Emerging Markets, FX, and remittances a plus.
-Excellent Financial analytical, strategic planning and execution skills
-High Level attention to details
-Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet set deadlines.
-Excellent interpersonal, presentation skills and communication skills.
-Work goal-oriented based on minimum supervision
-High sense of responsibility, accountability, integrity, and ethical standards
-Authorization to work in the country without sponsorship