Senior Associate, FX Trading at eRecruiter Nigeria

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.