Head Trader eFX Spot – Associate-Director
As an Associate-Director in the FX & DA Trading department, you will be in charge of the eFX Spot team. Reporting directly to the Head Spot Vice-Director, you will supervise the operational activities and manage people in accordance with your senior management.
Key responsibilities
Team Management:
- Leading and supporting the eFX Spot team:
- Fostering a positive work atmosphere where employees feel motivated, valued, and connected to the team and the organization.
- Promoting collaboration, trust, and cohesion among team members.
- Addressing any potential conflicts among team members to your senior management and/or HR Partner
- Supporting employee growth through training, mentorship, coaching, and advancement opportunities.
- Hiring:
- Leading the recruitment process with your Talent Acquisition Partner
- Ensuring new hires are properly introduced to the team, the organization, its culture, policies, and their specific roles.
- Performance Management: Setting performance expectations, providing feedback, conducting performance reviews, and addressing any performance issues.
- Conducting under performance process with the help of your Senior Management and HR Partner.
Operational duties:
- Own the realized risk and PnL
- Ensure successful and compliant operations
- Monitor orders, trades, overall market conditions, news flow, real-time risk and PnL
- Fine-tune price construction, execution and risk management production systems
- Monitor the overall client activity and ensure flow quality, as well as smooth client trading experience
- Maintain a gainful network of hedging counterparties and market venues
- Analyze results, identify and drive improvements
- Data analysis: Use internal analytical tools and your own quantitative capabilities to draw data-driven conclusions, suggest actions, deliver reporting
- Documentation: maintain up-to-date operational procedures and ensure compliance
- Collaborating: Be a reference point for Sales, Software Engineers, IT colleagues and other internal teams
- Project Management: Contribute to product development and infrastructure improvements
- Monitoring: team’s capacity allocation
Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in sell-side electronic FX trading
- Previous experience in a leadership role is a strong advantage
- Deep understanding of market (micro)structure
- Deep understanding of client needs (both retail and institutional segments) and the competition landscape
- Proficient in transforming large data sets into actionable insights
- Ability to prioritize and deliver multiple tasks in a deadline-driven environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills, results-oriented, team player
- Excellent communication and presentation skills