Tracking the bank's foreign exchange positions in real time — feeding traders position information, reconciling against trade records, supporting position-keeping and risk reporting. The role tends to live in FX operations, back-office trading support, or treasury risk functions.
Most days follow the rhythm of trading day — pre-market position handoff, intraday position updates as trades book, end-of-day reconciliation, and overnight handoff to the next region's desk. You'll often work in a bank's FX operations, treasury, or middle-office function — the role is the connective tissue between the trading desk and the books of record. Speed and accuracy both matter, and trading desks expect responsive support.
What's harder than people expect is the precision required when markets move fast. Position breaks during volatile markets can grow quickly if not caught; wrong position data leads traders to make bad hedging decisions. The strongest position clerks develop pattern recognition for what trades cause what breaks, and the relationships with trading desks become real career capital. Multi-time-zone handoffs add complexity in global banks.
People who tend to thrive here are precise, calm under market pressure, and comfortable with the technical vocabulary of FX trading. The role tends to be a strong foothold into FX trading support, treasury analyst, or market risk roles. The trade-off is that the work happens in trading-hours rhythms — early mornings, late evenings, sometimes overnight coverage in global operations — and the technical specificity makes career pivots outside trading-adjacent roles harder.
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View all Admin & Office roles →Tracking the bank's foreign exchange positions in real time — feeding traders position information, reconciling against trade records, supporting position-keeping and risk reporting. The role tends to live in FX operations, back-office trading support, or treasury risk functions.
Median pay for a Foreign Exchange Position Clerk is about $49K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $35K to $73K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Mathematics, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, and Writing.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 5.8% through 2034, with roughly 1.5 million people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Cash Accounting Clerk, Bookkeeping Clerk, and Check Clerk.
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