🇬🇧 London + willingness to travel (100% in-person)
💰 Competitive (incl. equity)
About Zuba
Careers @ Zuba
About the role
We're looking for an FX Trader to run the desk that prices and executes Zuba's currency flow: quoting institutional clients, working orders across emerging-market pairs, and managing the risk that sits on our book between trade and settlement. You'll work alongside our Head of Finance and our existing trader, and report into our Head of Treasury as that hire lands.
This is not a role where you watch a screen and wait for the phone to ring. Our desk trades real size into markets where liquidity is thin, spreads move, and the onshore rate and the offshore rate are not the same number. Naira, shilling, rand, peso and the majors, against USDT and USDC. What you quote is what the company earns, and there is nowhere to hide a bad fill.
What you'll do
- Price and execute client trades across emerging-market pairs and majors, against USDT and USDC
- Own the desk's risk through the day: position, exposure by pair, and what is still open at cut-off
- Build and manage the liquidity book: source counterparties and providers, put them in competition, and reduce single-source dependency in every corridor we run
- Hold the line on spread discipline: know what each corridor should earn, and know when a ticket is being priced to win rather than to make money
- Work the onshore/offshore gap: in markets with more than one rate, work out which one is real and price against it
- Make the pricing systematic: benchmarks, rate sheets, and quoting logic clear enough that engineering can automate the repeatable parts
- Keep the handover to treasury clean: your positions are their funding problem, and the line between who executes and who funds does not blur
- Keep the execution record straight: every ticket, fill and rate reconstructable after the fact
Who you are
- You've actually traded: 3+ years on a desk pricing and executing FX, with live positions and real limits. Enough time to have been wrong in size and to know what you did next.
- You know emerging-market currencies: you can talk about liquidity windows, settlement timing and parallel rates in African, Asian or LatAm pairs without reaching for a textbook.
- You're commercially sharp, not just technically correct: you understand that a fill is only good if the trade made money, and you can tell the difference between winning a client and buying one.