Forex Trade- CA Inter / Freshers

Forex Trade Assistant is required to work on mainly Forex Hedging related activities and is a part of Global Forex desk of ETG. This role requires close working with the all Treasury teams, Country Finance Controllers spread across various geographies. The profile requires sound knowledge of Financial Markets, ability to execute trades at best available prices, information about markets movements and ability to take FX covers sometimes in highly volatile environment

The ideal candidate should have prior exposure to markets in terms of dealing in various currencies and commodities, ability to identify FX exposure from different components and take prompt action. The candidate need to have good understanding of Marco economic factors like GDP, Interest rate movement, Inflation, Current Account flows and how these factors affect Currencies, Equities commodities markets. He needs to keep himself abreast with latest global developments by reading various research reports published by banks.

The candidate is required to develop robust mid-office and back-office reporting sheets for all FX transactions. He / She should provide timeline reports to various internal stakeholders such as Risk, Commodity desks and Finance teams.

Primary responsibilities :

DAILY

• Tracking Forex exposure from countries / ERP / Treasury
• Arriving at hedge-able versus non-hedge able exposure.
• Discuss with Trader / Country F.C. to arrive at net amount and tenor for FX covers
• Checking rates with banks, negotiating hard for competitive pricing and then close at the best price available
• Deal on Online Trading platforms, wherever possible
• Updating Outstanding hedges file on Real time basis
• See if any hedge is maturing. Discuss with stake holders on delivery / Cancellation / Roll-over of the hedge
• Prepare and circulate summary report of all deals concluded during the day

WEEKLY

MONTHLY

Education qualification and desired experience :

CA Inter

Skills required :

Behavioral competencies :

Travel :

Compensation :

Competitive (depending on the level of experience)

About the Company :

Export Trading Group is the largest agricultural-commodity supply chain company in Africa. The Company originates (buys) crops at farm gate “up country” in 25 African countries, aggregates and processes them in a network of proprietary facilities, and exports them internationally. Using this infrastructure in reverse, the Company imports fertilizer and rice, breaks bulk and processes them, and distributes them to smallholders.