Fidelity is seeking a Foreign Exchange Trader to join the Equity Trading department to execute FX positions across various investment strategies and provide value-added macro market intelligence.
Requirements
- Proficiency in trading platforms and financial software.
- Excellent analytical, quantitative, and critical thinking skills.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience executing foreign exchange.
- Careful attention to detail, ability to multi-task and prioritize.
- Ability to work individually and in a collaborative team setting.
- Possess a critical eye and willingness to offer innovative solutions.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily execution of global FX orders, including Spot, Forwards, Swaps and NDFs, employing a variety of execution channels to meet our best execution expectations.
- Collaborate across Fidelity advisors to provide liquidity solutions for FX needs in Alternatives strategies, including FX Options, FX Futures, and Interest rate swaps.
- Facilitate ongoing technology work to enhance our FX trading platform, focusing on best execution, risk controls and system resiliency.
- Partner with our quantitative analytics team to understand transaction costs and seek to minimize those costs on an ongoing basis.
- Develop relationships with key internal partners including compliance, legal, operations, counterparty, risk, and technology, to ensure a seamless trading process.
- Engage with global portfolio management, research, and cross asset trading teams to provide value-added macro market intelligence.
- Represent Fidelity externally through engagement with broker-dealers, buy side peers and industry groups.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Ability to work individually and in a collaborative team setting.
- Careful attention to detail, ability to multi-task and prioritize.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
