Banking Job-Mandarin speaking FX Trader-London-ww

First People Recruitment; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Mandarin speaking FX Trader to join their dynamic team in London. This role involves pricing, market making, and trading FX products, while maintaining strong relationships with clients and internal teams. The ideal candidate will possess fluency in both Mandarin and English, along with solid experience in FX trading. You'll be responsible for managing FX positions, ensuring compliance with bank guidelines, and contributing to the business's income profile. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about trading, this opportunity could be your next big step in your career.

Qualifications

• Degree educated in Finance or Banking is essential.
• Experience in FX trading and managing market risks required.

Responsibilities

• Pricing and trading FX products for commercial needs.
• Managing FX positions and ensuring compliance with guidelines.
• Liaising with internal and external parties for FX trading.

Skills

Fluent in Mandarin

Fluent in English

FX Trading experience

E-trading platforms management

Knowledge of FX products

Market risk management

Team player

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree in Finance or Banking

Relevant professional qualification

Job description

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Your New Job Title: Mandarin speaking FX Trader

The Skills You'll Need: Fluent in Mandarin and English, solid experience in FX Trading in Financial Services.

Your New Salary: Depending on experience

Office based

Perm

Start: ASAP

Working hours: 35 hours

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

• are fluent in Mandarin
• have solid FX Trading experience in the UK

What You'll be Doing:

• Pricing, market making, and trading FX products for the purpose of HO commercial needs, provide pricing to branches and other FI clients in London Trading Centre coverage time.
• Lead/or support the monitoring and control internal channel systems for FX business, take client flows for FX business through these systems during London time.
• Managing FX positions within the Bank guidelines. Contributing to the positive income profile of the business.
• Proactively engage into the communication with networks to improve their client relationship by providing trading and related service.
• Liaising with relevant parties internally or externally, e.g. departments within London, teams in Head Office, etc., to sort out any problems related to FX trading of LTC, and to deliver the key strategy of the group.
• Working across all internal and external relationships, maintain a constant vigilance of technological, regulatory and other developments to ensure execution process remains highly valued-added, compliant and representative of best industry practices.
• Reviewing and completing all relevant administrative documentation such as end of day/month business reports, and liaise with various supporting functions as required.
• Covering other dealers as required. Supporting other trading desk in other activities.
• Undertaking all tasks set out daily by Head of desk or HO.
• Other task assigned by HOD and management.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Degree educated in Finance, Banking or other equivalent
• Relevant professional qualification as required
• Experience in trading FX products, pricing corporate and FI flows, manage market risk
• Experience in managing E-trading platforms as market maker
• Knowledge of FX products including Spot, Swap, Outright, NDF, Options
• Knowledge of G10 economy basics and forecasts
• Knowledge of portfolio and risk management
• Ability of working in a fast paced environment
• Team player
• Excellent English & Mandarin communications skills

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

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