FX Trader & Liquidity Specialist - Emerging Markets

AI overview

Drive impactful foreign exchange trading strategies in emerging markets, with a focus on Africa and Asia, while fostering strong relationships with liquidity partners.

👋 About Us

NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.

We operate two core products:

  • NALA, our consumer app making cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more reliable for the global diaspora. Allowing users to send money from the UK, US and EU to Africa and Asia.
  • Rafiki, our B2B payments infrastructure, is powering global payments.

Our team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp — operators who’ve scaled world-class products. We act with urgency, think deeply, and put our customers first always.

At NALA, this isn’t just a job. It’s ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.

Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion

🙌 Your Mission

In this role, you will focus on trading foreign exchange currencies in emerging markets, with a primary emphasis on Africa and Asia. You will be responsible for navigating both official and parallel exchange rates, leveraging your market insights to inform trading strategies. A key part of your mission will be building and maintaining strong relationships with liquidity partners such as banks, brokers, and other relevant entities, ensuring competitive pricing and liquidity management. You will monitor and analyse emerging FX markets, particularly in Africa and Asia, to drive proactive trading decisions and optimise performance for our remittance business.

🎯 Your responsibilities in this role

    • Monitor and analyse foreign exchange markets, particularly in Africa and Asia, to inform and optimise trading strategies.
    • Build and maintain strong relationships with liquidity partners such as banks, brokers, and other relevant entities.
    • Execute and manage FX trades in alignment with company policies, risk management guidelines, and market conditions.
    • Assess market prices and benchmarks to ensure optimal trading decisions are made, with a focus on obtaining the best rates.
    • Provide regular insights and forecasts on currency movements, supporting strategic decision-making for the business.
    • Manage cash and liquidity efficiently, ensuring competitiveness in the rates and pricing we receive.
    • Work with internal teams to ensure smooth execution and settlement of trades.
    • Maintain accurate records of trading activities and prepare performance reports

🔥 Must-Have Job Requirements

    • Proven experience as an FX Trader within the financial services industry.
    • Proven experience trading frontier/illiquid currencies, including navigating both official and parallel markets.
    • Excellent analytical skills to interpret complex data and make informed decisions based on market signals. (Ideally you’ll have some experience with Python, R or SQL)
    • Some exposure to working within a startup or scaleup environment would be beneficial, but not essential. We move fast.

💪 Nice-to-Have Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or related field; a Master’s degree is a plus.
  • CFA qualification or similar
  • Experience in remittance or cross-border payments.

➡️ Interview Process

  • 30-Minute Initial Interview
    Kick things off with a chat with our Senior Talent Partner. We'll discuss your background, the role, and your motivations to ensure we're aligned from the start.

  • 30-Minute Interview with Senior Treasury Manager
    Next, you’ll have a conversation with our Senior Treasury Manager. This is your chance to dive deeper into the technical aspects of the role and discuss how your skills can contribute to the treasury team's goals.

  • 1-Hour Final Interview with our COO
    The final step is a conversation with our Chief Operating Officer. This is an opportunity to align on your vision for the role, discuss your long-term career aspirations, and learn more about Nala’s overall strategy and culture.

⭐️ Benefits

  • UK - In Office
    • 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays: Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
    • Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.
    • Enhanced Parental Leave - We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
    • Global Workspace: Get access to WeWork locations worldwide.
    • Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
    • Sarabi: Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team.
    • Monthly Socials: Join fun social events every month for great times.
    • Free Coffee: Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips.

Ready to take your FX trading expertise to the next level?

If you’re passionate about navigating emerging markets and have the skills to manage liquidity while driving trading strategies, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now and join our dynamic team, where your expertise will make a real impact in enhancing economic opportunities across Africa and beyond.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Learning Budget: Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
  • Birthday leave: Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.
  • Paid Parental Leave: Enhanced Parental Leave - We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
  • Paid Time Off: 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays: Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
  • Access to WeWork locations: Global Workspace: Get access to WeWork locations worldwide.

We’re on a mission to increase economic opportunities for Africans across the globe, and we’re keen to hear from capable, ambitious, and creative people who want to help bring this vision to fruition. 🚀 Our first product was a mobile money service in East Africa, which gained over 2,000 customers. Now we’ve set our sights on building a bank for the African diaspora across the globe and our initial focus is on remittances. We’re currently launching an international money transfer service for African living overseas, who send money home to their loved ones. We’re backed by: Balderton Capital, Y- Combinator, Accel Partners, and several incredible fintech angel investors including the founders of Monzo, Comply Advantage, Luno, and Simple.Find us on TechCrunch What we are currently building 🚀 We want to build a bank for the African diaspora globally, initially by starting with a cross-border money transfer service. We believe this is critical to solve to channel economic value back to the African continent. We believe using remittances is one of the best forms of true economic development and we would like to use it as an entry point before building new layers of financial services for the African diaspora. At a starting point we are excited about: Building Remittances 2.0 - we know remittance fees are a race to the bottom and believe the current model has some things that need to be changed. Enabling credit - for senders sending money back to Africa so they don’t have to wait till they get their paycheck at the end of the month. Building infrastructure - enabling payments infrastructure locally in Africa. Building a community of African diaspora helping us build an incredible product together.

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