taptapsend - Director of Trading

London - Hybrid2mo ago

In Office Director EMEA Payments Director of Security Sales Director Performance Management Reporting Team Leadership Rails

Requirements

• Experience: A proven track record running FX execution in emerging markets, with direct ownership of a margin or P&L target under volatile conditions. Experience managing liquidity providers and leading a specialist trading team. • Skills: Strong command of hedging, exposure limits and the unit economics of cross-border payments. Comfortable with automation, data and modelling. A working view of stablecoins (USDC/USDT) as a sourcing and settlement layer. • Attributes: High ownership and a data-led bias to action. A direct communication style and sound judgement under pressure with incomplete information. • TAPTAP VALUES https://www.taptapsend.com/our-values • Propose solutions • Be proactively candid, with yourself and others • Love the particular • Create positive energy • Maybe, even have fun

Responsibilities

• Trading Execution: Own day-to-day FX execution across 40+ actively traded currencies, setting the standard for execution quality, pricing and risk discipline. • P&L Ownership: Take full accountability for trading margin, managing the spread between sourcing cost and required rates corridor by corridor, and reporting performance with clear attribution. • Liquidity Management: Build and manage the liquidity provider panel — onboarding, benchmarking and renegotiating to secure competitive pricing — and manage concentration so no corridor depends on a single counterparty. • Sourcing Strategy: Optimise how the desk funds each corridor, including stablecoin sourcing where it is cheaper and faster than fiat rails. • Treasury Partnership: Work closely with Treasury on pre-funding and working capital, recognising that execution timing moves the funding requirement. • Cross-functional Communication: Partner with Ops and Compliance on counterparty risk and settlement flows, and translate FX dynamics into clear decisions for senior stakeholders. • Team Leadership: Lead and develop the existing trading team, raising capability and driving automation so the desk scales without scaling headcount one-for-one.