FX Trader

🚨 New Role – FX Trading / EM Markets 🚨

FX Trader / Multi-Asset Trading Associate (Emerging Markets)

🌍 Early-stage fintech | 🌐 Cross-border payments (Africa / EM)

📍 Remote (UK / Europe timezone)

🕒 Full-time

👇 DM me for details

We’re partnering with a high-growth fintech building a next-generation cross-border payments platform across Africa to hire an FX Trader / Multi-Asset Trading Associate. This is not a conventional trading seat.

You won’t be staring at tight spreads on a screen — you’ll be working in opaque, relationship-driven markets, sourcing liquidity, pricing risk, and building a live view of fragmented FX corridors.

You’ll join a lean team (hire #2 on the desk), with real ownership from day one, working directly with the Head of Trading.

💡 What makes this different

🔹 EM / frontier markets — not G10, not commoditised

🔹 Liquidity is relationship-driven — you source it, not click it

🔹 Wide spreads, capital controls, imperfect data — real trading judgement required

🔹 Blend of trading (~70%), analytics, and counterparty management

🔹 Opportunity to build network, pricing capability, and desk infrastructure from scratch

🧩 What you’ll be doing

🔹 Execute FX spot, forwards, and swaps across EM corridors (Africa + beyond)

🔹 Source liquidity directly from LPs — calls, chats, relationships

🔹 Build and maintain a live view of fair value across fragmented markets

🔹 Turn flow + LP behaviour into actionable pricing/market insight

🔹 Support reconciliations and post-trade processes (front-to-back ownership)

🔹 Contribute to building out a broader multi-asset trading capability (FI / money markets over time)

✅ What they’re looking for

✅ Experience trading emerging market FX (Africa ideal, not essential)

✅ Strong quantitative mindset — comfortable with numbers, pricing, and analytics

✅ Experience in FX trading, sales trading, or liquidity provision

✅ Ability to operate in imperfect, off-screen markets

✅ Some exposure to multiple asset classes (FX + fixed income / money markets a plus)

✅ Relationship-driven — able to build and work a counterparty network

✅ Hands-on, self-sufficient — this is a small team, high ownership role

💡 Open on experience level — ~2–5 years ideal, but strong junior profiles with the right quantitative ability are considered

💰 Package

💵 ~£100k – £125k base (depending on experience)

📈 Equity included (performance-driven upside)

🌍 Fully remote (UK / Europe timezone preferred)

🚀 Why this role

• Real trading — not just execution, but market making in imperfect environments
• High-impact — you’re building the desk, not joining a machine
• Exposure to one of the most interesting growth areas in payments (Africa FX / cross-border)
• Direct access to leadership and commercial strategy

📩 DM me or email [email protected] for a confidential chat