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Head of Dealing (FX, Commodities, CFDs)
Sage Consulting Group
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Director
1 weeks ago
FX TradingCFD TradingCommodities TradingRisk ManagementLiquidity ManagementHedging Strategies
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About the Role
A global FX brokerage seeks a Head of Dealing to lead dealing operations, trade execution, liquidity management, and risk exposure. The role requires extensive experience in FX, CFDs, and commodities brokerage, managing A-Book/B-Book models, and overseeing a dealing team.
Key Skills for This Role
FX TradingCFD TradingCommodities TradingRisk ManagementLiquidity ManagementHedging Strategies
Responsibilities
- Lead daily operations of the dealing desk for efficient trade execution and risk management
- Supervise execution of client trades and monitor trading activity
- Manage A Book, B Book, and hybrid execution models
- Develop and implement hedging strategies
- Build and maintain relationships with liquidity providers and prime brokers
- Monitor net open positions, market exposure, and execution performance in real time
- Analyze client trading behavior including HFT, latency arbitrage, and toxic flow
- Optimize pricing, spreads, markups, and execution rules
- Collaborate with Head of Risk on exposure limits and hedging
- Oversee configuration of trading platforms including leverage settings and symbol specifications
- Develop dealing policies, SOPs, escalation protocols, and business continuity plans
- Produce daily dealing reports and performance metrics for senior management
Requirements
- 10+ years in FX, CFDs, commodities, or online brokerage industry
- 5+ years leading dealing, trading operations, or brokerage execution teams
- Proven experience with A Book, B Book, and hybrid execution models
- Hands on experience with MT4, MT5, cTrader or similar platforms
- Experience with bridge technologies like OneZero, PrimeXM, Centroid
- Strong understanding of market risk, margin management, and client exposure
- Professional working fluency in English
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or related field preferred
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- Our client is a global FX brokerage seeking a Head of Dealing to lead dealing operations, trade execution, liquidity management, and market risk exposure.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee daily operations of the dealing desk.
- Supervise execution of client trades and monitor trading activity.
- Manage A Book, B Book, and hybrid execution models.
- Develop and implement hedging strategies.
- Build and maintain relationships with liquidity providers, prime brokers, bridge providers, and execution venues.
- Continuously monitor net open positions, market exposure, spread management, client flow, and execution performance in real time.
- Monitor and analyze client trading behavior including HFT, latency arbitrage, toxic flow, scalping strategies.
- Optimize pricing, spreads, markups, execution rules, and symbol configurations.
- Collaborate with Head of Risk to manage exposure limits, hedging activities, margin utilization.
- Oversee configuration and ongoing management of trading platforms.
- Develop and maintain dealing policies, standard operating procedures, escalation protocols, and business continuity plans.
- Produce daily dealing reports, exposure reports, profitability analysis, execution quality reports, and trading performance metrics.
Requirements
- At least 10+ years of progressive experience within the FX, CFDs, commodities, and/or online brokerage industry with 5 of those years leading dealing, trading operations, or brokerage execution teams.
- Proven experience overseeing A Book, B Book, and hybrid execution models within an online brokerage environment.
- Strong understanding of trade execution, market making, hedging strategies, liquidity management, and brokerage profitability.
- Extensive experience working with liquidity providers, prime brokers, bridge providers, and liquidity aggregation technologies.
- Hands on experience with MT4, MT5, cTrader, or similar institutional trading platforms, including Manager and Administrator functions.
- Experience with bridge technologies such as OneZero, PrimeXM, Centroid, or similar liquidity management solutions is highly preferred.
- Strong understanding of market risk, trading operations, margin management, leverage controls, swap calculations, rollover processes, and client exposure management.
- Experience monitoring and managing execution quality, slippage, spreads, fill ratios, and order routing performance.
- Strong understanding of client trading behavior, including toxic flow analysis, latency arbitrage, copy trading, high frequency trading (HFT), and risk mitigation strategies.
- Experience working within regulated financial services environments and a strong understanding of regulatory requirements applicable to FX and CFD brokerages.
- Ability to perform effectively in a fast paced, real time trading environment where rapid decision making is critical.
- Strong professional working fluency in English is REQUIRED.
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