The Role
- As a Senior Associate, FX Trading, your primary responsibility will be to build and develop a trading strategy for all major FLW 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-à-vis best industry practices
Requirements
Required competency and skillset to be a waver:
- 4 - 6 years post graduate experience in banking/treasury/payments/fintech
- Minimum of Bachelor’s 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 goal-oriented 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 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 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.