Vice President, Asian FX Trader

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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

MUFG is a leading global Foreign Exchange (FX) provider with a strong expertise and a particular focus on Asian markets. Our Emerging Market FX Voice Trading team has seen significant growth in recent years and plays a key role in our medium term ambition of becoming an Asian Powerhouse. Our global Asian FX team have traders in 5 different location working alongside both our Asian onshore trading teams and our Asian Rates team.

This interaction gives us direct access to different liquidity sources and provides greater market intelligence.

The role offers both high global visibility and a certain level of autonomy. Regular interactions with our onshore trading centres and Asian rates team is expected, ensuring close collaboration across regions. You will be working closely with MUFG’s sales representatives to provide oft bespoke trading solutions, to corporate, institutional, central bank, and government clients.

• Act as a subject matter expert in Asian currency trading.
• Play a central role in advancing MUFG’s Asian Powerhouse Strategy for the EMEA region.
• Serve the needs of MUFG’s EMGD FX client base, delivering tailored solutions for their Asian EM exposures.
• Manage risk effectively across all customer flows in Asian EM currencies during the European timezone.
• Generate market‑making revenue while maintaining disciplined risk management.
• Monitor the EM desk’s positions to ensure compliance with credit and market limits.
• Be a key link between London and our global trading desks, ensuring smooth communication and coordination.

• Support salesforce in providing solutions for their EM currency exposures.
• React to client enquiries ensuring proposed solutions are appropriate for the client and meet the requirements of best execution.
• To provide a competitive market making service to MUFG’s EMGD client base.
• To trade and accumulate market making revenue particular in Asian currencies.
• To price accurately all new currency pricing requests through voice channel.
• To monitor all electronic delivery channels to ensure pricing streams are accurate.
• To provide trade ideas and alpha generation in FX products especially EM related currencies.
• To provide market commentary and updates both internally and externally on emerging markets.
• To monitor market and credit limits for the desk.
• Conduct business in line with regulatory requirements.
• To support desk head with any specific requests.

Essential:

• Direct front office global markets experience in trading with exposure to Asian currencies.
• Proven track record of generating FX trading revenue.
• Proven ability to work in a pressurized work environment.

Preferred:

• Market making in NDF offshore currencies.
• Some experience in EM Rates.
• Experience in trading both onshore and offshore channels.
• Exposure to EM Institutional investors.

Essential

• Passion for trading, particularly in FX or emerging markets space.
• A strong understanding of FX markets especially the emerging market macro landscape.
• Strong numerical skills and attention to detail.

Preferred:

• Intermediate development skills in C++ , Python or Java.
• Demonstrated ability to create own pricers for EM FX forward curves using money market instruments.
• Model and scenario analysis.