Our client is a key player in the Fintech Space. They have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses to make and receive payments conveniently and border less. They are currently looking to hire a Senior Associate FX Trading.
Job Summary
As a Senior Associate FX Trading your primary responsibility will be to build and develop a trading strategy for all our clients 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
Support the trading of frontier and emerging market currencies.
Closely monitor and manage liquidity across currencies to support the business.
Support the Structuring of treasury deals for large merchants globally.
Support the establishment of pricing rules for new products as required.
Support the development of a risk framework for FX risk.
Produce market updates and analytical content.
Establish strong working partnerships internally and externally with key stakeholders.
Generate analytics on trading activities and report periodically.
Maintain 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.
Continuous evaluation of current processes vis vis best industry practices
Requirements
4 years post graduate experience in banking/treasury/payments/fintech.
A minimum of a Bachelors degree in a business or finance related field.
Experience & understanding of international payments banking systems Crypto on/off ramp.
Good understanding of the EM and G10 FX trading operations and local regulations.
Proficiency in Excel 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 goaloriented based on minimum supervision.
High sense of responsibility accountability integrity and ethical standards.
You ll love this job if you
Have an intellectual curiosity about payments and technology.
Have high aptitude to quickly understand customer use cases and requirements.
Have the ability to drive crossfunctional teams from ideation to solution.
Have the ability to manage proactive and reactive tasks effectively.
Are selfdriven selfstarter extremely passionate goalgetter.
Are passionate about process improvements.
Are comfortable managing relationships within every aspect of the organisation 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.
Treasury Management, Compliance, Liquidity Management, and Financial Analysis.