Vice President, Asian Rates and FX Trading

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) - Emerging Market Rates Trader

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 7th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 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.

• To be part of the founding resources in building the EM rates trading business for the EMEA region.
• To be a key participant in pushing our Asian Powerhouse Strategy for the EMEA region.
• To serve the needs of MUFG’s EMGD client base with their Asian (EM) rates exposures.
• To price and risk manage all customer flows during European timezone in Asian rates products.
• To accumulate market making revenue.
• To monitor positions of the global rates EM desk and ensure the desk is within credit and market limits.
• To be a conduit between London and other global trading desks.

• Support salesforce in providing solutions for their EM Rates 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 particularly in Asian rates.
• To price accurately all new 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 rates products especially Asian and EM related.
• 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 to Asian rates products. Proven track record of marketing and pricing rates products especially Asian related. Proven ability to work in a pressurized work environment.
• Preferred: Market making in one of KRW/IDR/INR or TWD offshore rates. Some experience in EMFX pricing and risk managing. Experience in trading both onshore and offshore Asian markets. Exposure to EM Institutional investors.

• Functional / Technical Competencies:
• • Essential: Passion for trading, particularly in FX or emerging markets space. A strong understanding of FX markets especially the emerging market macro landscape. Experience in VBA / Excel pricing sheets. Strong macroeconomic and technical analysis skills.
  • 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.

• Essential: Bachelor’s degree and equivalent industry experience required
• Preferred: Advanced degree in financial or scientific field.

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