Director, EM Trader

Overview

Role: Director, Emerging Markets Trader

Division: Global Markets

Location: NY Office, 1185 Avenue of the Americas. The role will work in the NY office and spend most time there during employment.

Skill Band: Front Office

Type: Permanent

Date Posted: 9 Feb 2026

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Note: All job applicants will be treated fairly and equally. The company is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. Our vision statement: "Be Yourself, Succeed Together" and our core value of Openness underline our desire for a culture which is open and transparent and values difference, enabling everyone to consistently achieve whilst being themselves.

ICBCS Global Markets offers sales, structuring and trading expertise to our clients across a range of products, with market leading expertise in Emerging Markets (EM) and Commodities. Global Markets comprises two core divisions:
Commodities and Fixed Income and Currencies (FIC).

The Commodities division provides trading, sales, working capital solutions and structuring expertise through its Metals and Energy teams. The division's expertise extends to the management and financing of physical commodity inventories across these asset classes.

The FIC division offers a comprehensive range of vanilla and structured products and solutions for its clients' treasury management, liability management, financing and investment requirements. Specialising in EM, the FIC product offering covers foreign exchange, interest rate and credit asset classes. FIC Financing products also cover equity and fund asset classes as collateral. FIC clients include EM Corporates, Banks and Sovereigns (EM CBS), institutional investors globally, as well as our shareholders and their clients.

The division is subdivided into two departments:

• FIC Trading managed by the Global Head of FIC Trading, comprising Local Markets FX and Rates, Credit and Structured Trading
• FIC Sales & Origination, Structuring and Portfolio Management managed by the Global Head of FIC Sales and Structuring, FIC Origination, Structuring and Portfolio Management teams

With respect to the Director, LATAM Local Markets and Credit Trading, the individual will be part of the FIC Trading department, which is a department responsible for:

• Local currency EM rates and FX trading
• EM credit trading
• Electronic FX (eFX) trading across developed market (DM) and EM currencies
• Repo, structured derivatives and other collateralized financing

The Director is responsible for managing product development, market making and risk management in the Americas region with the objective of extending ICBCS  EM and Frontier EM trading expertise to selected LATAM markets and building foundations for a client franchise to be established in the Americas region.

Key responsibilities:

• Execute trading strategies across the LATAM region
• Provide liquidity and pricing to clients and managing risk in FIC markets
• Price, structure and trade FX products, credit instruments, interest rate derivatives, collateralised financing transactions and similar activities, ensuring alignment with market conditions, liquidity constraints and regulatory requirements
• Manage electronic trading platforms and other automated execution tools to automate flows and expand market coverage across EM and DM

Key responsibilities are as follows;

The selected text outlines the principal responsibilities of the Director within ICBCS' FIC Trading function in the Americas region.

Key areas covered include:

• Delivering business plans and meeting targets; participating in management forums; holding regular meetings with direct reports; servicing sales requests; managing risk in line with strategic objectives; sharing market information; and contributing to revenue goals.
• The role encompasses defining and delivering management information (MI) to business heads and ensuring material information is appropriately reported.
• Risk management duties require adherence to regulatory limits, legal, compliance, and anti-money laundering requirements, with proactive escalation of operational incidents.
• New business initiatives must be robustly sponsored and…