Chief FX Admin Officer

Job Category: 
Position Type: 
Permanent
Salary: 
Depends on experience
Location: 
South Africa
City: 
Sandton, Johannesburg
Contact Email: 
carlo@astuteresourcing.com

Leading Investment Bank requires a Chief Adminstration Officer to join a high priority Foreign Exchange project that will run for the next 3-5 years. The role requires a professional with 8-10 years investment banking experience, strong ops experience and a good understanding of FX. Ideally EE.

Competencies

  • Technical Knowledge
  • Commercial Effectiveness
  • Business Skills
  • Personal & Interpersonal Skills
  • Control Environment
  • Management and Leadership Knowledge and skills • Very strong sales background and ability, with experience as a Relationship Executive,
  • Confident in dealing both at an Executive or lower level;
  • Good understanding of at least Vanilla FX products,
  • Generalist FX understanding,
  • Ability to network
  • Excellent communication ability
  • Ability and know-how to spot opportunities and to do whatever it takes to convert those opportunities into business and revenue for the firm;
  • Very strong work ethic and ability to actively manage and follow-up pipe-line items with Relationship Executives and or Product Specialists;
  • Good overall admin ability and office routine / management Experience • 8 – 10 years of investment banking and / or consulting experience
  • Experience with operational side of business (process design, business process re-engineering, etc)
  • Experience working with personnel development / organizational design
  • Experience working with financial results and financial planning Education
  • Relevant tertiary qualification and appropriate Post graduate qualifications or equivalent NQF6 qualification