Treasury Sales Dealer

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Treasury Dealer to manage a portfolio of corporate and retail clients, deliver efficient treasury services, and drive foreign exchange turnover to enhance the bank’s profitability.

Key Responsibilities/Tasks

• Price maker to corporate and commercial customer base in foreign exchange, money market and vanilla derivatives
• Regular client visits to maintain existing base and bring in new business (new clients)
• Support client activities in the regions to ensure that forex opportunities are well tapped.
• Assemble, disseminate and distribute economic news
• Follow the prescribed procedures when dealing and adhere to the ACI code of conduct.
•  Keep up to date records of client activity and won and lost deals
•  Build an in-depth knowledge of the clients by staying abreast of changes within the customer’s business which will create new opportunities to transact.
• Maintain a “work in progress” pipeline and a client priority call list
• Manage and maintain a good working relationship with Trader/s to ensure that client’s needs are met.
•  Manage customer portfolio by maintaining and growing turnover
• Need to keep up to date with current global developments, including economical & political; and pro-actively keep clients up to date with current market conditions.
• On an ongoing basis counsel customers on various methods of hedging their forex exposures by way of forward exchange and/or derivatives.
• Understand and manage credit exposures to clients, together with how this equates to pricing
• Prepare monthly reports on time and take ownership of data integrity/accuracy
• Strong networks within the corporate and commercial market.
• Achieve turnover and profit targets aligned to the overall Treasury objective
• Build internal and external relationships.
•  Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the strategic business drivers, opportunities, challenges, needs, competition and threats inherent in the environments/business sectors within which clients operate.
• Manage the threat from competitors and outsourcing companies to retain customers and turnover/profitability
•  Ensure that supportive, open relationships exist between RMs, relevant stakeholders and service providers within the bank
• Ensure that the processes, structures, systems and resources required to effectively service existing clients and develop new clients are in place and continuously reviewed. 
  

Risk Management:

• Ensure effective adoption and utilization of risk management tools
• Drive remediation of risk management exceptions identified during audit or risk reviews
•  Promote risk management culture

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

•   Self-motivated and willingness to succeed
•   A keen dealing mentality, being self-assured and confident
•  Excellent interpersonal skills and pro-active attitude
• Ability to cope under pressure and have a positive attitude at all times
•  A strong team player with the ability to work closely with all internal desks.
• Knowledge on Microsoft Applications
•  Communication skills

Academic / Professional Qualifications

• A degree in B. Com with Finance or Bachelor of Accounting & Finance preferred.
•   ACI certification will be an added advantage

Working Experience Required

• A minimum of 3 years of dealing experience with thorough knowledge and experience in foreign exchange, money market and currency derivative

ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED.