Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient borderless manner.
The Role:
As a Senior Associate, FX Trading, your primary responsibility will be to build and develop a trading strategy for all major FLW currencies in Africa & Europe. Additionally, deal structuring would be involved to service our concierge merchants, as well as pricing for our products (i.e remittance and others)
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
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Support the trading of frontier and emerging market currencies. -
Closely monitor and manage liquidity across currencies to support the business. -
Support the Structuring of treasury deals for large merchants globally. -
Support the establishment of pricing rules for new products as required. -
Support the development of a risk framework for FX risk. -
Produce market updates and analytical content. -
Establish strong working partnerships internally and externally with key stakeholders. -
Generate analytics on trading activities and report periodically. -
Maintain knowledge of financial markets and regulatory updates -
Ensures compliance with all banking laws, rules, regulations, and prescribed policies/practices/procedures necessary to reduce risk and uphold ethical standards. -
Continuous evaluation of current processes vis-à-vis best industry practices
Required competency and skillset to be a waver
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4- 6 years post graduate experience in banking/treasury/payments/fintech -
A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a business or finance related field -
Experience & understanding of international payments, banking systems, Crypto on/off ramp -
Good understanding of the EM and G10 FX trading operations and local regulations. -
Proficiency in Excel and relevant tools -
Experience or familiarity with all or some of Emerging Markets, FX, and remittances a plus. -
Excellent Financial analytical, strategic planning and execution skills -
High Level attention to details -
Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet set deadlines. -
Excellent interpersonal, presentation skills and communication skills. -
Work goal-oriented based on minimum supervision. -
High sense of responsibility, accountability, integrity, and ethical standards
You’ll love this job if you
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Have an intellectual curiosity about payments and technology -
Have high aptitude to quickly understand customer use cases and requirements -
Have the ability to drive cross-functional teams from ideation to solution -
Have the ability to manage proactive and reactive tasks effectively -
Are self-driven, self-starter, extremely passionate, goal-getter -
Are passionate about process improvements -
Are comfortable managing relationships within every aspect of the organisation from senior executives to engineers -
Embrace the challenge of managing multiple activities simultaneously -
Are comfortable working in ambiguity and the constant change of life at a startup experiencing hyper growth
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