Head of Finance | FX & CFDs
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About the Role
Boundless seeks a Head of Finance for a global regulated financial services group in FX, CFDs, and digital assets. The role leads financial management, reporting, planning, and controls across multiple entities.
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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
- 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
- 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
- Partner with Compliance and Legal teams to ensure financial operations align with regulatory, tax, and corporate governance requirements
- Support new entity setup, licensing initiatives, cross border expansion, and financial due diligence
- Build, lead, and develop a high performing finance team
- Drive automation and process improvement across financial reporting, reconciliations, dashboards, and management information systems
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline; ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA, CMA, or equivalent 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
- 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 to board or executive committee level
- Strong leadership and people management capability
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
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Company Overview
- Our client, a global regulated financial services group with a strong presence across FX, CFDs, digital assets, and institutional trading, is seeking an experienced Head of Finance to lead its finance function.
- The business operates across multiple international markets and combines a fast paced trading environment with strong governance, regulatory discipline, and ambitious growth plans.
Role Overview
- The Head of Finance will lead the financial management, reporting, planning, and control environment for the business.
- This is a senior leadership role requiring strong experience within FX, CFDs, brokerage, trading, or wider financial services.
- The successful candidate will oversee financial operations across multiple entities and jurisdictions, ensure accurate and timely reporting, strengthen financial controls, and provide commercially focused insight to senior leadership.
- They will work closely with executive management, operations, compliance, legal, and external stakeholders to support profitable and sustainable growth.
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.
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.
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