Senior Associate FX Trading
Lagos, Lagos
Posted more than 30 days ago
- Company:
- Outsource Global Technologies Limited
- Company Description:
- At Outsource Global, we believe in building partnerships with companies worldwide to positively impact the global business services and foster exponential growth. This growth can include higher-value, multi-processing, specialized services and business functions such as Customer service, IT support, software development-as-a-service, legal services, Artificial Intelligence, medical support services, accounting-as-a-service and data management. By first understanding your business and the functions within the organization, we find ways to reduce operational costs and increase performance with consistent, quality and reliable service delivery. Our services are tailored to perfectly suit your business needs and preferences, with a focus on service quality, low-cost and scalable solutions. We help our clients become operationally efficient and competitive.
- Contract Type:
- Full Time
- Experience Required:
- 5 to 10 years
- Education Level:
- Bachelor
- Gender:
- Any
- Number of vacancies:
- 1
Job Description
The Role:
As a Senior Associate, FX Trading, your primary responsibility will be to build and develop a trading strategy for all our 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 a hedging strategy across major markets
Support the Structuring of treasury deals for large merchants across the globe,
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 pieces 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 waiver
Experience 4+ years of 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
Have 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
You’ll love this job if you
Have an intellectual curiosity about payments and technology
Have a high aptitude to quickly understand customer use cases and requirements
Have the ability to drive cross-functional teams from ideation to solution
Have the ability to manage proactive and reactive tasks effectively
Are self-driven, self-starter, extremely passionate, goal-getter
Are passionate about process improvements
Are comfortable managing relationships within every aspect of the organization from senior executives to engineers
Embrace the challenge of managing multiple activities simultaneously
Are comfortable working in ambiguity and the constant change of life at a startup experiencing hyper-growth