Capital Markets, FX Specialist
Manages FX risk, trading, pricing, and hedging while building analytical and monitoring tools and shaping FX infrastructure with cross-functional partners. Requires 5+ years in FX or related markets, Python and SQL proficiency, and a bachelor’s degree.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Monitor FX risks, execute trades, reconcile positions, and attribute costs.
- Build automated risk monitors, alerting tools, and analytical models using SQL and quantitative coding to improve observability and reduce operational toil.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering on the design and scaling of core FX infrastructure, trade execution flows, and liquidity-provider integrations.
- Develop risk-based FX pricing methodologies across products and currency pairs, accounting for volatility, transaction costs, netting efficiency, and embedded optionality such as rate guarantees.
- Design hedging strategies to mitigate FX risks on financial statements while maintaining robust policies, controls, and operational runbooks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in FX, market risk, trading, quantitative research, or treasury operations.
- Working knowledge of FX market structure and instruments.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for building analytics and tools.
- Strong foundation in statistics, time series, and risk measurement.
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to turn complex, imperfect datasets into clear insights.
- Practical experience using AI tools for analysis and automation, with a critical approach to model validation and verification.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, including concise escalation under time pressure.
- Bachelor's degree.
Nice-to-haves
- Degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics.
- Experience with automated trading.
- Familiarity with option theory and Greeks.
- Experience building data pipelines and systems with technical teams.
Skills
Foreign Exchange, Market Risk, Trading, Python, SQL, Statistics, Time Series, Risk Measurement, AI Tools, Automated Trading, Option Theory, Data Pipelines, Hedging Strategies, Fx Pricing, Quantitative Research
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