• Application Deadline:
• Position: Senior Associate, FX Trading


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 4 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
  

Job Summary

• As a Senior Associate, FX Trading, your primary responsibility will be to build and develop a trading strategy for all our client's major 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

• 4+ years post graduate experience in banking/treasury/payments/fintech.


• A minimum of a Bachelors 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.