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  • Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • Finance, Accounting & Tax
  • Full time

Job Description

  • Job ID: 330872

  • Date posted: 27/02/2026

    • Who you are

    You are an experienced currency trader and want to be part of an industry leading corporate treasury? You believe that profits provide resources to make a positive impact in the world? You are humble, down to earth and embrace the beauty of simplicity? If so, we think we have a career opportunity for you.

    You need to be:

    • An experienced currency trader
    - With minimum 4 years’ experience working within a similar sized corporate treasury with a global mandate in a multinational corporation or a financial institution.
    - With good working knowledge of financial markets and FX products.

    • Capable of:
    - Analysing and explaining financial exposures, positions and results relating to complex financial instruments.
    - Validating financial exposures with reference to expectation and past tends and not take exposure levels as given.
    - Dealing with ambiguity and handling comfortably unclear or unpredictable situations.
    - Working well in a high pressure, result oriented dealing room environment.

    • Able to build strong and trusting relationships, collaborate and co-create a better working environment within a global treasury organisation.

    Your responsibilities

    • Validate the forecast end of day liquidity position, by currency, with reference to general trends and expectations of currency positions to identify outliers that would indicate error.

    • Hedge short and long daily currency positions, based on the validated forecast end of day currency position and drain or fund the Euro cash pool daily.

    • Continuously appraise the short-term (1-14days) currency forecasts and group hedging policies, and in doing so, actively manage the short-term currency position of the group.

    • Monitor the developments in external FX and Interest Rate markets especially in term of execution in order to transact in the most optimal and most cost-efficient way.

    • Depending on the pre-determined short term liquidity buffers, invest the drained Euro cash pool in line with policy with external financial institutions.

    • Remediate escalations from back and middle office including rate sets or where relevant allocate and hand over to the relevant Treasury Business Partner.

    About this work area

    Driven by the IKEA vision to create a better everyday life for the many people, Ingka Group brings the IKEA brand to millions of homes.

    The Ingka Group’s global Treasury is based out of Dublin and aims to secure Ingka Group’s long-term growth and financial resilience. Ingka Treasury operates out of Dublin as a global centre of excellence serving all Ingka entities from San Francisco to Auckland.

    We are a total of ca. 50 Treasury professionals with a keen interest in financial markets and home furnishings. We manage global financial risk, global liquidity and together operate an inhouse bank for all the Ingka group.

    Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We believe we can make a big difference for people with big dreams and thin wallets, and we want to do it within the limits of our planet. This ambition challenges us to be part of making sustainable home solutions affordable and accessible to millions of people around the world.

    Questions and support? Let's connect!

    Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we would encourage you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.

    You will be based in Dublin (Blackrock), Ireland and will report to Guzman Chavert, Group Cash & FX Forecast Team Leader. This is a permanent role.

    If you have any questions about the position, please contact Guzman Chavert (guzman.chavert@ingka.com). If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter & HR Generalist Sigrid Luxen (sigrid.luxen@ingka.com), People & Culture.

    Your application, consisting of a covering letter and CV, should be submitted online. Applications made by e-mail will not be accepted. Please note that the recruitment process will combine online and face-to-face interviews and assessment tests.




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