Senior Principal – FX Counterparty Strategy & Risk Analytics
London
Senior Principal – Counterparty Strategy & Risk Analytics
Reporting to: Global Head of FX Risk Management
Role Overview
We areseekinga highly strategic and analytical professional to join our FX Risk Management team as Senior Principal – Counterparty Strategy & Risk Analytics.
This roleis responsible forshaping and executing the global FX counterparty strategy across liquidity providers, pricing governance, credit optimization, and advanced risk analytics. The successful candidate will play a critical role in strengthening counterparty diversification,optimizingtrading credit capacity, and enhancing pricing intelligence across FX products, including FX Options and complex derivatives.
Working closely with Trading, Treasury, Credit Risk, Product, and Commercial teams, this individual will help drive scalable, data-driven decision-making while supporting business growth, liquidity resilience, and risk optimization.
Key Responsibilities
Counterparty Strategy & Diversification
- Define and execute the global FX counterparty strategy across geographies, products, and liquidity providers.
- Drive diversification initiatives to enhance resilience andoptimizetrading capacity.
- Lead counterparty assessments covering performance, strategic fit, liquidity quality, and pricing competitiveness.
- Design scalable onboarding and governance frameworks for new counterparties and trading relationships.
- Build strong relationships with key banking and non-bank liquidity providers across FX spot, forwards, NDFs, swaps, and FX options.
Credit Capacity & Optimization
- Oversee the framework for global counterparty credit capacity management, includingutilization, concentration, and limit optimization.
- Identifyand mitigate capacity constraints to support uninterrupted trading activity and client execution.
- Develop optimization strategies across balance sheet allocation, exposure management, hedging, and credit protection structures.
- Partner with Risk and Treasury teams to maximize efficient deployment of trading credit resources.
- Define and deliver advanced reporting and analytics capabilities across FX exposure, pricing,utilization, concentration, and counterparty performance.
- Develop forward-looking analytics, scenario analysis, predictive models, and performance attribution frameworks.
- Analyzecounterparty pricing methodologies and market competitiveness across FX products, including complex and exotic FX options structures.
- Identifypricing optimization opportunities through data-driven insights and market intelligence.
- Deliver actionable commercial insights to Trading, Treasury, and senior stakeholders.
Technology & Innovation
- Drive the evolution of data, analytics, and technology capabilities within FX Risk Management.
- Evaluate and implement advanced analytics and AI-enabled solutions to enhance forecasting, pricing analysis, and counterparty management.
- Support automation initiatives and scalable infrastructure development for real-time risk and liquidity monitoring.
- Collaborate closely with Technology and Product teams to modernize FX risk management platforms and analytics capabilities.
Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ years of experience across FX, Treasury, Trading, Counterparty Risk, or Capital Markets within a global financial institution or fintech environment.
- Deepexpertiseacross FX markets and products, including FX Spot, Forwards, Swaps, NDFs, and FX Options.
- Strong understanding of counterparty risk management, liquidity management, credit capacity frameworks, and pricing analytics.
- Proven experience driving strategic initiatives across counterparty strategy, pricing optimization, or risk analytics.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance risk, liquidity, profitability, and market competitiveness.
- Advanced analytical and quantitative skillset, including financialmodeling, data analysis, and performance metrics.
- Experience engaging with senior stakeholders across Trading, Treasury, Risk, and executive leadership functions.
- Familiarity with regulatory considerationsimpactingcounterparty and market risk frameworks.
- Strategic and commercially driven mindset
- Deepexpertisein FX markets, counterparty dynamics, and pricing frameworks
- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making capabilities
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Strong governance and risk management orientation
- Innovation-focused with strong interest in technology, automation, and analytics
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