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🚨 New Role – FX Trading / EM Markets 🚨
FX Trader / Multi-Asset Trading Associate (Emerging Markets)
🌍 Early-stage fintech | 🌐 Cross-border payments (Africa / EM)
📍 Remote (UK / Europe timezone)
🕒 Full-time
👇 DM me for details
We’re partnering with a high-growth fintech building a next-generation cross-border payments platform across Africa to hire an FX Trader / Multi-Asset Trading Associate. This is not a conventional trading seat.
You won’t be staring at tight spreads on a screen — you’ll be working in opaque, relationship-driven markets, sourcing liquidity, pricing risk, and building a live view of fragmented FX corridors.
You’ll join a lean team (hire #2 on the desk), with real ownership from day one, working directly with the Head of Trading.
💡 What makes this different
- EM / frontier markets — not G10, not commoditised
- Liquidity is relationship-driven — you source it, not click it
- Wide spreads, capital controls, imperfect data — real trading judgement required
- Blend of trading (~70%), analytics, and counterparty management
- Opportunity to build network, pricing capability, and desk infrastructure from scratch
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🧩 What you’ll be doing
- Execute FX spot, forwards, and swaps across EM corridors (Africa + beyond)
- Source liquidity directly from LPs — calls, chats, relationships
- Build and maintain a live view of fair value across fragmented markets
- Turn flow + LP behaviour into actionable pricing/market insight
- Support reconciliations and post-trade processes (front-to-back ownership)
- Contribute to building out a broader multi-asset trading capability (FI / money markets over time)
✅ What they’re looking for
- Experience trading emerging market FX (Africa ideal, not essential)
- Strong quantitative mindset — comfortable with numbers, pricing, and analytics
- Experience in FX trading, sales trading, or liquidity provision
- Ability to operate in imperfect, off-screen markets
- Some exposure to multiple asset classes (FX + fixed income / money markets a plus)
- Relationship-driven — able to build and work a counterparty network
- Hands-on, self-sufficient — this is a small team, high ownership role
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💡 Open on experience level — ~2–5 years ideal, but strong junior profiles with the right quantitative ability are considered
💰 Package
- ~£100k – £125k base (depending on experience)
- Equity included (performance-driven upside)
- Fully remote (UK / Europe timezone preferred)
🚀 Why this role
- Real trading — not just execution, but market making in imperfect environments
- High-impact — you’re building the desk, not joining a machine
- Exposure to one of the most interesting growth areas in payments (Africa FX / cross-border)
- Direct access to leadership and commercial strategy
📩 DM me or email steve@stackrecruitment.com for a confidential chat
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