Fx Forwards Trader

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 6th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

Overview of the Department/Section

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (“MUFG”) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vison to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do.

We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

MUFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: MTU) stock exchanges. The group’s operating companies include, but are not limited to, MUFG Bank, Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Japan's leading trust bank), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings (one of Japan's largest securities firms), and MUFG Americas Holdings.

MUFG's expertise as a foreign exchange (FX) provider covers all major currencies and markets. We offer comprehensive trading services, as well as bespoke Foreign Exchange risk management solutions for a wide variety of situations. We focus on building high-quality, long-term relationships with our clients, who benefit from our excellent credit rating and liquidity position. This is underpinned by MUFG's global network that covers 50 countries. We enjoy market dominance in Asian currency trading. By joining the emerging market FX voice trading team you will be joining a dynamic team which is expected to see strong revenue growth through the next medium term business plan. You will be working closely with MUFG’s sales representatives to provide often bespoke trading solutions, to corporate, institutional, central bank, and government clients

Number of Direct Reports
- None

Main Purpose of the Role
- To serve the needs of MUFG’s EMGD FX client base with their G10 Forward and/or EM FX exposures.
- To risk managed all customer flows during European timezone in chosen products currencies.
- To accumulate market making revenue.
- To monitor positions of the derivatives desk and make sure desk is within credit and market limits.

Key Responsibilities
- Support salesforce in providing solutions for their currency exposures.
- React to client enquiries ensuring proposed solutions are appropriate for the client and meet the requirements of best execution.
- To provide a competitive market making service to MUFG’s EMGD client base.
- To trade and accumulate market making revenue using both spot positions and forward curves for currencies.
- To price accurately all new currency pricing requests through voice channel.
- To monitor all electronic delivery channels to ensure pricing streams are accurate.
- To provide trade ideas and alpha generation in FX products especially in G10 & EM Forward space.
- To provide market commentary and updates both internally and externally on FX markets.
- To work and liaise with the planning department over any ongoing projects for the desk such as electronic offering of G10 and EM forward pricing.
- To monitor market and credit limits for the desk.
- Conduct business in line with regulatory requirements.
- To support desk head with any specific requests.

Work Experience

Essential:

- Direct front office global markets experience.
- Proven ability to work in a pressurized work environment.

Preferred:

- Direct global markets trading experience.
- Proven track record of generating FX trading revenue.

Skills and Experience

Functional