Senior Associate, FX at Outsource Company

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 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 piece for merchants
• Establish strong working partnerships externally with key banking partners, LPs & internal stakeholders
• Ensure standard daily and periodic reporting and maintain process documentationn 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

• 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
• 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, 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