Head of Finance | FX & CFDs

Company Overview

Our client is a globally regulated financial services group specializing in FX, CFDs, digital assets, and institutional trading. The organization operates across numerous international markets, combining a dynamic trading environment with stringent governance, regulatory compliance, and ambitious growth objectives.

Role Overview

The Head of Finance will direct the company's finance operations, including financial management, reporting, planning, and control mechanisms. This executive position demands extensive experience in FX, CFDs, brokerage, trading, or broader financial services sectors.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the full finance function encompassing accounting, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, tax, audits, and financial controls.
• Ensure timely preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual management accounts, statutory financial statements, and reports for board-level review.
• Design and implement financial planning, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and scenario analyses to underpin business growth strategies.
• Conduct commercial analyses relating to revenue performance, trading volumes, client activity, spreads, rebates, partnerships, marketing expenditures, and operational costs.
• Manage cash flow, liquidity, banking relations, payment processes, and treasury activities across multiple business entities.
• Maintain robust financial controls, including accounting policies, approval workflows, reconciliations, and segregation of duties.
• Lead external audit engagements and coordinate with auditors, tax consultants, regulators, financial institutions, and other stakeholders.
• Identify and manage financial risks such as counterparty risk, currency exposure, liquidity challenges, operational risks, and profitability variances across business segments.
• Collaborate with Compliance and Legal teams to ensure financial processes adhere to regulatory, tax, and governance standards.
• Support initiatives including new entity formations, licensing procedures, international expansion, and financial due diligence efforts.
• Build and manage a high-performing finance team with clear roles, consistent reporting standards, and ongoing development.
• Promote automation and enhance processes in financial reporting, reconciliations, dashboards, and management information systems.
• Act as a trusted finance advisor to senior leadership, delivering clear financial insights, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations to facilitate informed decisions.

Candidate Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related fields complemented by a professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA, CMA, or equivalent is highly preferred.
• Extensive experience in senior finance leadership roles within FX, CFDs, brokerage, trading, banking, fintech, payments, or regulated financial organizations.
• In-depth understanding of the financial operations of FX and CFDs brokerages, including knowledge of client funds, trading revenues, liquidity structures, rebates, commissions, and complex multi-entity financial reporting.
• Proven track record managing financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, treasury, audits, taxation, and financial control frameworks.
• Experience navigating multi-jurisdictional legal entities, diverse currencies, and varying regulatory landscapes.
• Strong familiarity with IFRS standards and statutory financial reporting requirements.
• Ability to effectively communicate with senior executives and present complex financial data to boards or executive committees.
• Commercial acumen to convert financial data into actionable business insights and strategic guidance.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building and nurturing finance teams.
• Proficiency in advanced Excel functionalities and financial modeling, with additional experience in ERP systems, business intelligence tools, and finance automation platforms considered advantageous.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving abilities.
• High integrity, meticulous attention to detail, and the capacity to work efficiently in a fast-paced, international environment.