About the Role
Engage with senior traders to build and expand the Foreign Exchange Trading team's market-making operation across all FX products. This role involves participating in pricing, risk management, and modeling, as well as interacting with Sales and Quant teams. It offers an excellent opportunity to begin a career in Foreign Exchange Trading.
Responsibilities
- Execute FX trades (spot, forward, basis, options), manage client order flow and trade queries.
- Analyze global FX markets, macroeconomic trends and relevant data to support market-making activity.
- Develop risk mitigation strategies aligned with client portfolios.
- Partner with Sales, relationship bankers, treasury consultants, and credit managers to address client needs.
- Coordinate with sales, middle office, and back-office teams to ensure seamless execution.
- Support team operations and contribute to a collaborative desk culture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, engineering or related field.
- Strong quantitative ability.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Proficiency in Excel (VBA), Python, AI Coding techniques, and Bloomberg.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with attention to detail.
- Self-starter with a strong desire to learn and grow within a dynamic team.
- 1–3 years of FX market experience.
- Must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.
Skills
- FX Trading
- Market Making
- Pricing
- Risk Management
- Modeling
- Excel (VBA)
- Python
- AI Coding techniques
- Bloomberg
Location
- U.S. Bank
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1-3 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 - $110,000
- $81,345.00 - $95,700.00
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
- Annual discretionary incentive
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- Pension
About the Company
- At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.
- U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories.
- U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment.
- U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA).
- Certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.
Equal Opportunity
- U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.
