Head Trader eFX Spot – Associate-Director

Location
Gland, VD, ch
Posted
Jul 14, 2026
Last seen
Oct 6, 2026

About the role

As an Associate-Director in the FX & DA Trading department, you will be in charge of the eFX Spot team. Reporting directly to the Head Spot Vice-Director, you will supervise the operational activities and manage people in accordance with your senior management.

Key responsibilities

Team Management:

- Leading and supporting the eFX Spot team:

- Fostering a positive work atmosphere where employees feel motivated, valued, and connected to the team and the organization. - Promoting collaboration, trust, and cohesion among team members. - Addressing any potential conflicts among team members to your senior management and/or HR Partner - Supporting employee growth through training, mentorship, coaching, and advancement opportunities. - Hiring:

- Leading the recruitment process with your Talent Acquisition Partner - Ensuring new hires are properly introduced to the team, the organization, its culture, policies, and their specific roles. - Performance Management: Setting performance expectations, providing feedback, conducting performance reviews, and addressing any performance issues. - Conducting under performance process with the help of your Senior Management and HR Partner.

Operational duties:

- Own the realized risk and PnL - Ensure successful and compliant operations

- Monitor orders, trades, overall market conditions, news flow, real-time risk and PnL - Fine-tune price construction, execution and risk management production systems - Monitor the overall client activity and ensure flow quality, as well as smooth client trading experience - Maintain a gainful network of hedging counterparties and market venues - Analyze results, identify and drive improvements - Data analysis: Use internal analytical tools and your own quantitative capabilities to draw data-driven conclusions, suggest actions, deliver reporting - Documentation: maintain up-to-date operational procedures and ensure compliance - Collaborating: Be a reference point for Sales, Software Engineers, IT colleagues and other internal teams - Project Management: Contribute to product development and infrastructure improvements - Monitoring: team’s capacity allocation

- Minimum 8 years’ experience in sell-side electronic FX trading - Previous experience in a leadership role is a strong advantage - Deep understanding of market (micro)structure - Deep understanding of client needs (both retail and institutional segments) and the competition landscape - Proficient in transforming large data sets into actionable insights - Ability to prioritize and deliver multiple tasks in a deadline-driven environment - Excellent interpersonal skills, results-oriented, team player - Excellent communication and presentation skills