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My client is looking for a Treasury FX Sales Trader
To join their fast growing multi-asset trading desk which sits at the heart of the firm's cross-border payments infrastructure. This exciting new role spans FX spot, forwards, and swaps across African and EM corridors, with the mandate growing into fixed income and money-market instruments as the desk expands its product offering.
Key Responsibilities:
- FX execution across EM corridors
- Sourcing and executing spot, forward, and swap transactions across African and other EM currency pairs and adjacent corridors
- LP relationship management
- Holding live conversations across the liquidity provider set; maintaining the relationships through which prices and flow can be sourced under pressure; treating the network as the firm's institutional asset
- Market intelligence and desk analytics
- Turning corridor data, customer flow, and LP behaviour into actionable desk intelligence; building and maintaining analytical tools to track spreads, regime changes, and counterparty positioning
- Regulatory and capital control navigation
- Understanding what capital controls, central bank interventions, and jurisdiction-specific settlement requirements mean in practice; staying ahead of regulatory signals in the corridors you cover
- Risk and counterparty management
- Thinking about exposure at the desk level, not just the trade level; assessing counterparties on financial health, regulatory standing, and behaviour under stress; surfacing concerns before they become problems
- Post trade
- Owning reconciliation, and post-trade hygiene, not as a back-office task; escalating unusual signal early with calibrated judgement
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- Demonstrable EM or frontier FX experience
- Two to five years working African or other EM corridors in a markets role; the market quirks, capital controls, and counterparty dynamics must be the substance of prior work
- Multi-asset fluency
- Working knowledge of FX spot, forwards, swaps, and options; working knowledge of bond pricing and money-market instruments in EM markets; able to reason from first principles about instruments you haven’t personally traded
- Quantitative capability
- Comfortable with statistics and time-series analysis applied to live trading work; able to munge data in Python, R, or VBA to build a chart, run a back-test, or calculate a metric without it being a project
- Corridor-level market knowledge
- Treat distinct EM currencies as distinct markets, not flavours of the same; understands the EUR peg mechanics for CFA currencies, the CBN-managed float for NGN, and the regulatory regimes that govern each
- Risk instinct
- Thinks about exposure at the desk level; understands settlement-window credit risk, counterparty concentration, and the risk surface that comes with own-account trading
- Operational discipline
- On the desk when the market opens; owns reconciliation and post-trade hygiene without being asked; escalates with signal, not noise
- Integrity under pressure
- Can hold honesty and stakeholder management in tension when a position is under duress
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