Job Description
Title Senior Analyst - Currency Management
Department Currency Management
Location Hong Kong
Reports To Head of Currency Management - Europe & APAC
Level Currency Management - 5
Fidelity International
We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.
Currency Management and Purpose of your Role
The Currency Management team partners with Global Investment and Product teams to oversee and optimise FX exposure. We assess fund portfolios to determine FX requirements and instruct FX trades to support fund transactions, manage cash positions, and maintain currency exposures in line with target levels across our funds and products.
About your role
- Monitoring and review of portfolios and hedged products, in order to manage cash requirements and to ensure that FX exposures meet all relevant regulatory tests and internal guidelines.
- FX order generation to align fund cash balances and FX exposures with target FX profiles.
- Liaising closely with Portfolio Management teams, FX traders, Institutional Support Services and Investment Directors in defining and implementing FX exposure management requirements.
- Contributing to ongoing strategic initiatives from a Currency Management perspective as well as participating in fund launches, closures and other varied projects.
- Monitoring hedged product performance, investigating and explaining deviations from expected outcomes.
- Continuous process improvement, examining existing FX processes and suggesting improvements with a view to mitigating operational risk.
- Prepare and analyse Management Information on a periodic basis, identify trends and anomalies. Present MI to senior management.
About you
- 3+ years experience in an Investment Operations/Middle Office role
- Experience in a FX/ risk management environment is desirable.
- Demonstrable understanding of global asset and foreign exchange markets
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts for a senior audience.
- Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills. High integrity, diligent, conscientious and accurate, with a solid aptitude for risk management
- Experience with Charles River would be an advantage
- Bank holiday cover will be required.
- Language: English fluency.
Feel rewarded
For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.
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What We Do
Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.5 million customers globally. As a privately held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 countries and with $739.9 billion* in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals. Our Workplace & Personal Financial Health business provides individuals, advisers and employers with access to world-class investment choices, third-party solutions, administration services and pension guidance. Together with our Investment Solutions & Services business, we invest $567 billion on behalf of our clients. By combining our asset management expertise with our solutions for workplace and personal investing, we work together to build better financial futures. *Data as of 31 March 2021
