Markets Associate

As a Treasury Markets Associate joining the Treasury Markets team in Singapore. You will have the opportunity to manage Wise’s portfolio of currency risk, develop hedging strategies as well as be involved in broader Treasury markets risk management functions. You will also have the chance to work with our Cash and Asset Management team to identify and implement yield generating opportunities as well as product teams to enable customer flow.

Depending on your experience the role on offer is either for a Treasury Markets Associate or Senior Markets Associate

Your Mission:

• Manage group-wide FX risks, liquidity trades and projects as part of a Global Markets Team
• Dedicated focus on hedging activities including our in-house Cross-Correlation Strategy across FX products in the APAC timezone
• Work closely with our Data Science team to develop new tooling and hedging strategies for FX risk management
• Collaborate with Treasury Liquidity Operations to optimise funding accounts in APAC
• Manage relationships with international banks and counterparties across APAC, negotiating prices and optimising trades
• Participate in initiatives to improve dealing approach, policies, controls, and systems
• Provide analysis and reporting on dealing activities, working closely with the cash and asset management team for yield optimisation across fixed income products
• Support new currency and product launches, ensuring efficient risk management
• Collaborate with product and risk teams to automate risk management strategies and enhance control frameworks

Qualifications

Must haves:

• Experience in a buy/sell side FX dealing environment. Experience managing customer flow across a broad range of currencies, in particular with Asian FX is an added advantage. 
• Min 2-3 years trading/execution experience preferred.
• Confident dealing spot, forwards & swaps to manage live exposures. Experience dealing NDFs an added bonus
• Good communication skills to maintain and grow relationships with our banks and counterparties 

Good to have: 

• Proficient prioritiser - you make the right decisions on how to allocate time and effort
• Ability to absorb large quantities of detail quickly and communicate complex ideas to various crowds
• Open approach to problem solving in a fast paced environment
• Experience or interactions in the payments industry/fintech space
• Experience with settlements and operating teams will be valuable
• Experience with Asset Management execution (Bonds, MMFs etc)
• ACT Qualifications or equivalent
• Finance / Science / Engineering / Maths graduate preferred
• Excel, VBA, coding a bonus Python, Java, C++