About the Role
The Managing Director - FX & Commodities Trading is responsible for leading the company's foreign exchange and commodities trading activities across approved products, markets, and jurisdictions. This role is accountable for delivering sustainable risk-adjusted revenues, managing trading books and market risks within approved limits, supporting client execution requirements, and strengthening the company's franchise across FX and commodities markets. The position provides senior leadership across pricing, liquidity provision, hedging, risk positioning, and product development, while ensuring strong governance, conduct, and control discipline.
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Key Result Areas
- Develop and execute the FX and commodities trading strategy aligned to Treasury & Global Markets priorities.
- Deliver sustainable revenue growth and risk-adjusted returns across approved FX and commodities trading books.
- Manage trading positions, liquidity, inventory, hedging, and market risk within approved mandates and limits.
- Provide competitive pricing and execution support to Sales and client coverage teams.
- Oversee trading activities across spot, forwards, swaps, options, precious metals, energy, and other approved commodities products.
- Monitor global macro trends, central bank actions, commodity supply-demand dynamics, and geopolitical developments.
- Strengthen the company's market-making capability, client facilitation, and liquidity access.
- Partner with Sales, Structuring, Risk, Operations, and Technology to enhance products, execution channels, and client solutions.
- Ensure strong governance, market conduct, supervision, and control standards across the desk.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline; Master's degree or MBA preferred.
- CFA, FRM, ACI Dealing Certificate or equivalent markets qualification preferred.
- Extensive experience in FX, commodities, derivatives trading or global macro markets.
- Strong knowledge of spot, forwards, swaps, options, precious metals, energy, and commodity-linked products.
- Deep understanding of market risk, liquidity risk, benchmark conduct, execution standards and regulatory requirements.
- Proven experience managing trading books and senior trading teams in a regulated environment.
