Senior Associate, FX at Outsource Company

• As a Senior Associate, in 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 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 & 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.

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, and 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