Black Pen Recruitment

About the job VP of Commercial Trading (Cryptocurrency/Stablecoin/Fully Remote/Africa)
Our Client is the largest and the first 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

Personal Attributes

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.

Responsibilities

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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