Role Summary
As a FX Business Development Executive, you will be responsible for identifying and originating new business opportunities in Foreign Exchange to support the ambitious growth strategy of the business.
Skills And Experience
- Experience or proven track record working in a business development role in Foreign Exchange or Financial Services Industry
- Experience in lead generation and cold calling business to business
- Knowledge of Foreign Exchange markets a plus
- Excellent communication (verbal and written), interpersonal and negotiating skills
- FCA Certification will be required
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
Competencies
- Resilience, tenacity, and positive outlook in a fast-paced environment
- Entrepreneurial spirit and highly adaptable
- Ambitious, confident, and self-motivated individual
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
- Ability to multi-task and detail oriented
Overall Responsibilities
- Responsible for identifying and originating new business opportunities/client acquisition in FX with a focus on SMEs and mid-cap corporate clients
- Generate leads, qualify prospects and covert these into business relationships for corporate clients using FX products (cash, vanilla and structured) to risk manage FX exposure
- Conduct research and market analysis to identify potential clients and industry sector trends in specific countries and regions
- Prospecting through outbound calling, email campaigns, face to face meetings and networking.
- Work towards monthly targets to achieve these objectives
- Responsible for managing the sales-cycle from identifying new business opportunities to the onboarding process
- Work closely with internal teams supporting the Hedging Solutions business in EMEA (Sales, Operations, Legal, Compliance, Onboarding)
- Ensuring compliance with our regulatory requirements under the FCA
- Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
- To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
- To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
If you are tenacious and looking for a new role in Corporate FX Business Development please apply