Global Currency Hedge Trader

The role

The Global Currency Hedge Trader will manage and optimize FX exposure generated by a large global equities trading platform. This role involves designing and implementing models to optimize hedge ratios and manage execution across global FX markets.

What you will do

• Identify, aggregate, and manage FX exposure generated by global equity trading activity.
• Build quantitative models to optimize currency hedging decisions.
• Develop systematic frameworks for hedge ratio optimization, timing of hedges, and instrument selection.
• Execute FX hedges across spot, forwards, and swaps across G10 and EM currencies.
• Monitor and manage portfolio-level currency risk across multiple regions and trading strategies.
• Continuously improve models by incorporating market structure, correlations, and macro FX dynamics.
• Work closely with equity traders, quantitative researchers, and risk teams.
• Analyze hedge performance and exposures to refine models and improve hedging efficiency.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of FX trading or currency portfolio management experience at a leading prop 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.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-currency portfolio exposures tied to global assets.
• Strong programming ability in Python, C++, or similar, with experience building production-quality models.
• Strong 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

About the company

DV Trading is an independent proprietary trading firm that utilizes its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets. The DV Group of financial services firms is headquartered in Chicago and has more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia.