Job Purpose and Impact
-The Professional, Capital Markets & Trading job develops and implements the organization's funding and foreign exchange trading activities for the APAC region to ensure that the organization has access to the necessary funds, handle currency and interest rate risks, optimize costs and align with regulatory requirements.
Participates in proprietary financial trading activities in foreign exchange and interest rate markets across the APAC region, focused on North Asia.
With minimal supervision, this job partners to handle the risks associated with funding and foreign exchange products by applying knowledge of international and local market conventions as well as regulatory constraints.
Key Accountabilities
50% of time will be spent on the below activities:
TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT: Implements external funding and foreign exchange transactions for the assigned countries and participates in resolving the strategy for external funding and foreign exchange transactions.
FUNDING FLOW ANALYSIS: Partners with internal collaborators to ensure the optimal mix of funding for a geography between cross border and local funding sources and leads the interest rate risk and foreign exchange exposure of these short term funding positions.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADE EXECUTION: Performs complex foreign exchange trades for organizational groups while adhering to the counterparty framework and providing general foreign exchange advisory to the groups involved.
MARKET ANALYSIS: Conducts complex market analyses to provide foreign exchange or interest rate advisory to help the organization navigate the complexities of currency and interest rate markets and make informed decisions.
50% of time will be spent on the below activity:
INTEREST RATE AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROPRIETARY TRADING: Generate trading profits in foreign exchange rates, sovereign credit markets and similar instruments. Provides trade ideas and research information to related team members. Provide accurate recordings to reflect proprietary trading positions and strategies traded.
RISK ANALYSIS: Settles the proprietary risk positions for the defined market by analyzing financial markets, evaluating risk unit usage and registering potential transactions with key partners.
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 3 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
- Prior experience trading currencies and interest rates covering North Asia countries.
