• Application Deadline: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Senior Associate, FX


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 4 - 6 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
  

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