Liquidity Manager, Vice President

Who are we looking for

The Liquidity Manager is responsible for optimizing liquidity quality, execution performance, and traded volumes, with a primary focus on Currenex. This is a specialist, data driven role that actively manages liquidity provider participation to improve market quality, client outcomes, and overall commercial performance. While the Liquidity Manager does not perform sales activities or engage in commercial negotiations, the role is client facing and owns the liquidity management component of the client relationship. This includes accountability for execution outcomes, liquidity quality, and trading performance. The role focuses on execution analysis, liquidity deployment, and close collaboration with internal stakeholders, liquidity providers, and clients to enhance trading efficiency and support platform growth.

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Markets. As a leading provider of trading and lending solutions to the world's institutional investors, we deliver the industry's most innovative platforms, financing and portfolio solutions. Our capabilities are backed by proprietary, high value research, insights and indicators that power clients' investment decisions, accelerate performance and help investors stay ahead of shifting markets. Across our comprehensive set of solutions - data driven macro market intelligence, client first platforms and tools that redefine trading, financing solutions that streamline liquidity access, and portfolio solutions designed to help achieve peak performance - we deliver a breakthrough edge to drive business success.

What you will be responsible for

• Liquidity Optimization & Market Quality - Actively manage liquidity providers on the platform, including adding, removing, or repositioning liquidity in response to market conditions, client needs, and performance outcomes. Optimize liquidity by currency pair, trading stack, execution type, and trading style. Ensure high quality, resilient liquidity provision that supports diverse client trading strategies.
• Performance Monitoring & Analytics - Monitor execution performance metrics, including (but not limited to): fill rates (overall and by currency pair), round trip times (RTT), market impact, execution method effectiveness. Use quantitative analysis to identify performance gaps, trends, and optimization opportunities. Make data driven recommendations to improve liquidity alignment and execution outcomes.
• Platform Growth & Revenue Contribution - Directly support volume and revenue growth by improving liquidity quality and execution efficiency. Identify and address structural or behavioral factors that inhibit optimal trading activity. Contribute to strategic initiatives aimed at expanding liquidity participation and deepening market engagement.
• Stakeholder Collaboration - Work closely with Sales, Product and Technology teams to support platform enhancements and data initiatives. Engage with liquidity providers to review performance, communicate optimization actions, and align on trading behavior, while remaining non commercial in nature. Escalate risks, issues, or blockers impacting liquidity performance to Liquidity Management leadership.
• Governance & Controls - Operate within established governance, conduct, and market surveillance frameworks. Ensure liquidity management activities are compliant with internal policies and regulatory obligations. Support audits, reviews, and regulatory inquiries as required.

Success Measures

• Improvement in execution quality and market performance metrics
• Growth in traded volumes and liquidity engagement
• Effective identification and resolution of liquidity performance issues
• Strong collaboration with internal stakeholders and liquidity providers

Out of Scope Activities

• Selling GlobalLINK products or services
• Pricing negotiations or client commercial discussions
• Direct ownership of client accounts or relationships

What we value Experience

• Strong experience in FX markets, electronic trading, market structure, or liquidity provision.
• Demonstrated background in execution analysis, trading analytics, or market microstructure.
• Experience working with FX trading platforms, ECNs, EMSs, or liquidity aggregation technologies.

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Strong quantitative and analytical capability with the ability to interpret complex execution data.
• Comfortable working with trading metrics, performance dashboards, and large data sets.
• Understanding of FX market participants, including banks, non bank market makers, and buy side trading behaviours.

Professional Skills

• Highly data driven with strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Clear and confident communicator, able to explain analytical insights to technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to operate effectively in fast moving market environments.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience). Advanced degree or relevant market qualifications are advantageous but not required.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.