Treasury FX Sales Trader
Skills
Emerging MarketsEuropeThe Middle EastAnd AfricaForeign CurrencyForeign Currency TransactionsForeign Exchange Options
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Demonstrable EM or frontier FX experience in African or other EM corridors
- Working knowledge of FX spot forwards swaps and options
- Working knowledge of bond pricing and money market instruments in EM markets
- Quantitative capability with statistics and time-series analysis
- Ability to use Python R or VBA for data analysis and charting
- Corridor level market knowledge including peg and regulatory mechanics
- Strong desk level risk instinct and counterparty assessment skills
- Operational discipline for reconciliation and post trade hygiene
- Integrity under pressure and stakeholder management
Nice to have
- Analytical
- Commercially minded
- Detail oriented
- Calm under pressure
- Integrity
- Collaborative
Day to day
- Execute FX spot forward and swap transactions across African and other emerging market corridors
- Manage live relationships with liquidity providers to source pricing and flow under pressure
- Turn corridor data customer flow and LP behaviour into actionable desk intelligence
- Navigate capital controls central bank interventions and settlement requirements across jurisdictions
- Assess desk level risk counterparties and post trade hygiene with disciplined judgement