# Manager, FX Trading & Strategy

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: New York City, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $137,000 - $218,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is looking for a Manager, FX Trading & Strategy to join the New York City office and oversee daily FX trading, risk management and support the implementation of new processes and procedures.

The responsibilities for this role include:

- Developing new foreign exchange capabilities to support business initiatives involving cross-border payments

- Defining FX desk workflows, policies, procedures, and implementing a high level of automation

- Executing the company’s foreign exchange risk management program and strategies

- Monitoring FX trade executions and open positions

- Measuring FX risk according to company policy and reporting exposures to senior management

- Analyzing approaches to optimize risk management

- Onboarding trading partners

- Identifying requirements to trade exotic currencies

- Supporting the testing of FX risk management, quoting, and trading systems

- Communicating relevant news, market events, and FX system behavior to team members

- Analyzing market trends for the business

- Evaluating business cases for incremental revenue opportunities related to foreign exchange transactions and supporting the business with project-based FX analysis

- Contributing to all aspects of the trading desk activities including position reconciliation, risk management tasks, and post-trade analysis

The ideal candidate will be proficient in or possess the following:

- Experience in developing new business or service offerings

- Experience in and/or willingness to start a new trading operation including defining front, middle, and back office responsibilities and workflows

- FX experience in algorithmic and/or traditional trading in spot, forward, and NDFs

- Experience in designing, programming, and/or managing pricing and risk management algorithms or processes

- Strong understanding of FX markets in G-7 and G-20 currencies

- Strong knowledge of corporate finance and capital markets

- Excellent analytical skills

- Strong MS Excel and PowerPoint skills

- Proven track record of prioritizing work and managing multiple projects

- Ability to work independently and manage ambiguity

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Excellent leadership qualities

- Finance, accounting, economics, or similar degree; MBA or CFA a plus

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.

Mastercard benefits for full-time employees generally include: insurance, flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, and many more.

## Skills

### Required
- FX trading
- risk management
- algorithmic trading
- corporate finance
- capital markets
- MS Excel
- PowerPoint
- analytical skills
- leadership skills

### Nice to have
- MBA
- CFA
- exotic currencies
- pricing and risk management algorithms

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