VP of Commercial Trading (Cryptocurrency/Stablecoin/Fully Remote/Africa)
Full time
at Black Pen Recruitment
in
Online
Posted on April 17, 2024
Job details
Our Client is the largest and only licensed on/off-ramp platform for stablecoins in Africa. They are dedicated to offering innovative solutions in the African stablecoins space. Our client is committed to making stablecoins accessible and understandable for everyone, providing their customers with secure and user-friendly platforms for their financial transactions. Job Type: Remote | Full-time Requirements
- Cryptocurrency/Stable Coins experience, strongly preferred
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Intellectually curious, with demonstrated track record of being a fast learner
- Experience - 8 + years in traditional finance, capital markets and/or digital currencies
- Proven traditional or quantitative trading experience from a similar role in digital assets or traditional finance
- Execute, manage, and monitor of OTC trading activities
- History of building,maintaining and managing high value relationships
- Strategic understanding of the prime brokerage business model and the types of clients that might benefit the most
- Strategic mindset and detail oriented
- Strong sense of risk and controls from trading, credit, exposure, settlement, and treasury operations perspectives.
- Clear understanding of operational risks, compliance, and appropriate regulations
- Excel at working cross functionally to deliver commercial results
- Experience working within various African markets and jurisdictions an added bonus
- Passion: Candidate should have genuine enthusiasm to work in the digital asset industry
- Credible representation: Candidate should be able to serve as an effective ambassador for the organisation
- Relationship Building: strong relationship building capability as well as expressing themselves effectively in person and in writing
- Leadership: Ability to manage and maintain a high performing team
- Ownership: Able to self-manage, take initiative and take ownership of KPIs as set out
- Team player: Candidate should be able to coordinate tasks, support and respect others and always be ready to help
- Culture fit: Candidate should be a self-starter, with high integrity and role model our clients core values: Diversity, Openness, Africa-First, Boss-up, Customer Centric & Data-driven decision making (DO-ABCD)
- Adaptability: Ability to adapt to a fast paced and ever changing environment.
- Define and develop trading risk management framework, processes, and plans
- Manage liquidity partners, market makers and associated processes
- Monitor and manage total exposures and limits
- Efficiently monitor, identify, control, and resolve trading risk related issues
- Increase revenue across all product offerings
- Track and review trading events and market news, evaluate associated risks and react as necessary
- Take responsibility for market risk analyse behavioural patterns and identify abuse
- Keep up to date with the competition and the industry
- Build and maintain key relationships within the organisations sales regions
- Appreciate the changing requirements of our clients clients and consider how they may continue to add value
- Provide leadership to Commercial Trading team, guiding, supporting and coaching individuals
- Responsible for managing the performance of direct report/s in the Commercial team
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