About the Role
As a Treasury Markets Associate joining the Global FX Markets team, you will manage Wise’s portfolio of currency risk, develop hedging strategies, and contribute to broader Treasury functions. You will also identify and implement yield-generating opportunities and enable customer flow.
Responsibilities
- Manage group-wide FX risks, liquidity trades and projects as part of a Global Markets Team
- Focus on hedging activities including our in-house Cross-Correlation Multi-beta Strategy across FX products in the APAC time zone
- Work closely with our Data Science team to develop new tooling and hedging strategies for FX risks
- Collaborate with Treasury Liquidity Operations to optimise funding accounts in Austin/US time zone
- Manage relationships with international banks and counterparties across Austin/US time zone, 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
Requirements
- 2+ years of trading experience preferred
- Experience in a buy/sell side FX dealing environments
- Confident dealing spot, forwards & swaps to manage live exposures
- Strong communication skills to maintain and grow relationships with our banks and counterparties
- Experience dealing NDFs
- Experience managing customer flow with a broad range of currencies, in particular with Asian FX
- Proficient prioritiser
- 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
- 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++
Skills
- FX trading
- Hedging strategies
- Data Science collaboration
- Liquidity management
- Bank relationship management
- Negotiation
- Risk management
- Reporting
- Asset management
- Excel
- VBA
- Python
- Java
- C++
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years of trading experience preferred
Education Level
- Finance / Science / Engineering / Maths graduate preferred
- ACT Qualifications or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- USD 115000 - USD 149000 - yearly
Benefits
- Find out more about our benefits in our Austin location.
About the Company
- Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
- Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
- Wise is on a mission to make people's and businesses' lives easier and save them money.
- We serve a wide range of customers from personal users, freelancers, small businesses and increasingly even to large enterprises and banks.
- Wise also offers over 40 currencies across 160 countries and territories for customers to hold and convert money in.
Equal Opportunity
- For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too.
- We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
- We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
- Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
