Head of Finance | FX & CFDs

Company Overview

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end finance function, including accounting, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, tax, audit, and financial controls.
• Prepare timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual management accounts, statutory financial statements, and board-level reporting.
• Develop financial plans, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and scenario models to support business strategy and expansion.
• Provide commercial analysis on revenue performance, trading volumes, client activity, spreads, rebates, partnerships, marketing spend, and operational costs.
• Oversee cash flow management, liquidity planning, banking relationships, payment processes, and treasury operations across multiple entities.
• Ensure robust financial controls, accounting policies, approval processes, reconciliations, and segregation of duties are maintained.
• Lead the external audit process and coordinate with auditors, tax advisers, regulators, banks, and other external stakeholders.
• Monitor financial risks, including counterparty exposure, currency exposure, liquidity, operational risks, and profitability across business lines.
• Partner with Compliance and Legal teams to ensure financial operations remain aligned with regulatory, tax, and corporate governance requirements.
• Support new entity setup, licensing initiatives, cross-border expansion, and financial due diligence where required.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing finance team, ensuring clear responsibilities, reporting standards, and continuous improvement.
• Drive automation and process improvement across financial reporting, reconciliations, dashboards, and management information systems.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior management, presenting clear financial insights, risks, and recommendations to support decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline; ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA, CMA, or equivalent qualification is strongly preferred.
• Extensive senior finance leadership experience within FX, CFDs, brokerage, trading, banking, fintech, payments, or regulated financial services.
• Strong understanding of the financial mechanics of an FX and CFDs brokerage, including client money, trading revenue, liquidity arrangements, rebates, commissions, and multi-entity reporting.
• Proven experience managing financial reporting, budgets, forecasts, cash flow, treasury, audits, tax, and financial controls.
• Experience working across multiple legal entities, currencies, jurisdictions, and regulatory environments.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and statutory reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated experience working with senior executives and presenting financial information to board or executive committee level.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to translate financial data into practical business insight and strategic recommendations.
• Strong leadership and people-management capability, with experience building and developing finance teams.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills; experience with ERP systems, BI tools, and finance automation platforms is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills.
• High level of integrity, attention to detail, and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, international environment.