Global Currency Hedge Trader (FX)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a proprietary trading and financial services firm using its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity and hedging opportunities across global financial markets.

What you will do

• Identify, aggregate, and manage FX exposure generated by global equity trading activity.
• Build quantitative models to optimize hedge ratios, hedge timing, instrument selection, transaction costs, and liquidity.
• Execute currency hedges across spot, forwards, and swaps in G10 and emerging-market currencies.
• Monitor portfolio-level currency risk across multiple regions and trading strategies.
• Improve models using market structure, correlations, and macroeconomic FX dynamics.
• Collaborate with equity traders, quantitative researchers, and risk teams to integrate currency risk management into the broader trading platform.

Requirements

• 3+ years of FX trading or currency portfolio management experience at a leading proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, or investment bank.
• Strong quantitative background with experience building portfolio optimization, risk, or trading models.
• Deep understanding of G10 and EM FX markets, including spot, forwards, swaps, and funding dynamics.
• Experience managing multi-currency portfolio exposures tied to global assets.
• Strong programming ability in Python, C++, or a similar language, with experience building production-quality models.
• Statistical intuition and experience working with large market datasets and real-time risk systems.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in quantitative finance, mathematics, physics, engineering, statistics, or computer science.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a proprietary trading firm operating across North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Collaborate closely with trading, quantitative research, and risk functions.
• Join an organization with more than 600 employees and multiple financial services affiliates.