Head of Trading

You will own FX strategy, market-making strategy, and the Philippines OTC/FX trading team. You will manage pricing, liquidity, risk, profitability, governance, reporting, and cross-functional trading initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute FX trading strategy across payment corridors and currency pairs, focusing on PHP and emerging-market currencies.
• Manage pricing, spreads, execution quality, and liquidity sourcing for cross-border flows.
• Coordinate hedging and exposure management with Treasury.
• Design, operate, and improve market-making strategies for exchange order books.
• Manage external market maker and liquidity provider relationships and agreements.
• Collaborate on trading systems, pricing engines, algorithms, and connectivity.
• Build, lead, hire, manage, and train the Philippines OTC/FX trading team.
• Oversee OTC client pricing and execution for large-ticket fiat and crypto trades.
• Grow OTC volumes and client relationships with Sales and Business teams.
• Establish and enforce trading risk frameworks and limits.
• Ensure compliance with regulations, internal policy, AML/KYC, and market conduct standards.
• Report PnL, exposure, volumes, spread capture, and desk KPIs to senior leadership.
• Support audits, regulatory inquiries, market entries, and product launches.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of trading experience in FX, digital assets, or market making, including 3+ years leading a trading team.
• Proven record of running profitable FX or market-making strategies with disciplined risk management.
• Deep understanding of FX markets, liquidity, pricing, and execution.
• Hands-on market-making or liquidity-provision experience.
• OTC trading and institutional or large-ticket client management experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience in a regulated payments, exchange, bank, or trading firm environment.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Established relationships with banks, liquidity providers, market makers, and OTC counterparties.