FX Forwards Trader, Assistant Vice President (m|f|x) Frankfurt am Main

As a Forward FX trader, you will oversee and manage market risks that impact the region’s Sales, Trading, and Research business, typically driven by changes or opportunities in foreign exchange markets, client demand, or market-driven events. Your responsibilities will include identifying risks, analyzing them, and developing a trading strategy to address them, as well as coordinating across different areas, regions, and groups that are involved in, contribute to, or are responsible for handling and resolving these risks.

The team you will be joining is part of State Street Markets. As a leading provider of trading and lending solutions to the world’s institutional investors, we deliver the industry’s most innovative platforms, financing, and portfolio solutions. Our capabilities are backed by proprietary, high-value research, insights, and indicators that power clients’ investment decisions, accelerate performance, and help investors stay ahead of shifting markets. Across our comprehensive suite of solutions—data-driven macro market intelligence that provides an information advantage; client-first platforms and tools that redefine trading; financing solutions that streamline access to liquidity; and portfolio solutions designed to help achieve peak performance—we deliver a breakthrough edge to drive business success.

With our FX solutions, investors can access a wide range of markets and jurisdictions using our decision-making and strategy planning tools, diverse funding options, and trading strategies. We provide sophisticated avenues to tap into new sources of liquidity, capitalize on market opportunities, and trade efficiently in any market environment. We offer a range of solutions, from various high- to low-touch principal execution methods to outsourced agency hedging and execution solutions through our currency management services.

Join us if making your mark in the capital markets industry from day one is a challenge you’re ready to take on.

Tasks

• Provide liquidity to our clients and manage the risks associated with any risk transfer.
• Manage our inventory to meet our clients’ needs and generate revenue.
• Support the expansion of our client-centric FX swaps business in EMEA.
• Meet with clients to develop and deepen our relationships.
• Analyze, discuss, and develop strategies to address significant market-driven events, costs, balance sheet issues, liquidity, financing, clearing, collateral, or other impacts on the FX business

Individual Contributor

• Demonstrate a culture of individual ownership of tasks to instill a clear sense of personal accountability in performing the role
• Ensure that your behavior reflects the highest standards of the Code of Conduct
• Provide appropriate management information as required to support business unit decision-making
• Support the ‘Risk Excellence’ culture within the business
• Adhere to the limits of delegation and escalation procedures required by your manager to ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations

Profile / Your qualification / Your personality

What We Value

• A strong, practical understanding of the foreign exchange business, local markets, regulations, operations, and associated credit, liquidity, financing, and clearing knowledge
• Experience trading G20 currencies and interest rates, with a particular focus on EUR, JPY, GBP, and CHF
• The ability to provide market-making services to our client base
• The ability to use risk analytics, stress tests, and scenario analysis relating to market risk, counterparty risk, liquidity, and other risks impacting the Sales & Trading business
• Strong team player capable of working within State Street’s global structure
• Highly motivated, self-sufficient, innovative, able to challenge the status quo, develop or advance ideas, and work with small teams as well as represent the business.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or significant market experience.
• Good communication skills.
• Analytical and organized.
• Strong knowledge of foreign exchange products.

Contact

Karlotta Eliza Berger

Human Resources Manager

kberger​@statestreet.com

Valery Balan

Talent Acquisition Officer

Location

Brüsseler Straße 1-3, DE-60327 Frankfurt am Main